How Do We Actually Know We Landed on the Moon?

OR DID WE??!?!

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[cosmogoblin]

You're right. Kubrick was a perfectionist. That's why, when NASA asked him to fake the Moon landings, he insisted that they do it on location.

[hopefullynotbutprobably]

I think the biggest one is the Soviet Union congratulated the US on it. If the Soviets had any reason to suspect it was fake don't you think they would have called the Americans out?

[jeffashley]

Reminds me of joke I heard comedian say years ago about his grandmother.
'My grandma believes wrestling is real but the moon landing is fake.' Lol

[unrecognizedtalent]

So happy to see very essential content like this getting millions of views! So much misinformation on the internet! Thanks for doing it!

[ryandean]

Without watching yet, the biggest contemporary evidence I know of is that none of the mission transmissions were encrypted, everyone could hear everything, and anyone with a simple directional antenna could track them in the sky all the way there and back again. So, at the very least, something went to the Moon, stayed there for a couple days, and came back.

[wolcek]

Do you remember the time we thought the stupidity was caused by a lack of access to information?
Yeah, it wasn't that.

[LeoHL]

It's kind of weird that the moon landing didn't become a US annual holiday, considering the massive achievement it was.

[Traitorman..Proverbs.]

We know because The Soviet Union did not publish any articles disproving the landing. Not even in Pravda.
We also know because every capable country in the world followed the flight and every transmission.
And as we all know, triangulating a radio signal is pretty easy.

[bornyesterday]

In 1969, getting a clear picture on your tv set was a mission in itself.

[EEVblog]

I did my own orignal research on this. I compared the original Apollo 17 16mm ascent camera film footage to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) photos. Spoiler alert - they match up precisely. Video on this is on my EEVdiscover channel.

[twillison]

The survival of the Apollo 13 astronauts to me was more unbelievable than the moon landing. How those men were able to make it back despite the odds is just amazing.

[KarlUppianoKarlU]

Well, I'm afraid that as long as we have flat earthers, we'll have moon landing conspiracy theorists.

[FreakMC]

"Im not gonna believe nasa because I don't think there's enough hard evidence"
...
"Anyway I'm gonna believe this one guy who has no hard evidence whatsoever"

[clairecelestin]

I'm interested in stereo photography. When you photograph a scene, move to the side, and photograph the scene again, you can use that to create a stereograph and see the depth in the scene. I often do this with two frames from a movie when the camera moves sideways, and when this is done in a studio or sound stage the flat painted backdrop becomes completely obvious, just like you were there in the room with it.
I have also done this with the Apollo pictures that they took of the distant landscape while cruising around on the LRV, and those objects are NOT on a flat painted backdrop. They extend away miles into the distance. Good luck faking that one.

Edit- My gosh, so many people saying "Deserts exist on Earth, haha gotcha!"
What I'm doing here is saying that the photos cannot have been taken in a sound stage. But this whole operation was your idea- you all need the sound stage because lunar photos look bizarre and unlike Earth. On Earth, you have shrubs all over the place even in a desert, and even if you clear them all out for miles, you can't hide the wind and water erosion that's all over the place. The Moon doesn't have wind and water erosion, but what it does have are a lot of craters and micrometeorite impacts that are missing from any desert on Earth. I fully believe that some of you all can't tell the difference, but remember the goal here would be to fool a well-trained, intelligent Russian geologist, and to them the differences would be obvious.
And before you keep trying to @ me with some "aha, gotcha!" ask yourself this... The goal of the Moon Landings was to show up the Russians, right? But that can't be done with a simple TV broadcast. The Russians had these things called telescopes and RADAR, and they were able to see and track the Apollo missions from the ground. It's that simple. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would have called BS and publicly mocked the US. So any contrived conspiracy theory you come up with has to include the cooperation of the Russians. Also, any amateur astronomer with a telescope in the 1960's would have been able to track the modules for at least some distance, much as how amateur astronomers track satellites today. They wouldn't have the resolution to watch them all the way to the Moon, but we would be able to see that they were leaving Earth on a Moon-bound trajectory. How do you fake that one?
I get the value of being skeptical, but try to spend some time disproving your own ideas for a change.

[tim]

As I was born on the day Armstrong stepped onto the moon, I've always quipped: "That's one small step for man....but one giant push from my Mum!!" 🤣👍

[theblindbluebomber]

There's an old Tom Clancy quote that comes to mind when thinking about keeping all of the Apollo people quiet: The chance of a secret being leaked is equal to the square of the number of people who know it.

[mikesmith-pond]

The Soviets had teams of their best scientists, photographic experts, and so on, analyze every speck of information in an effort to debunk the Moon landings.
If they had found even the tiniest discrepancy, they would have announced it to the four corners of the world.

[Twinrehz]

“Almost as if NASA has a lot of people working there who know exactly what they’re doing”
I love smug sarcasm 😂

[kamalalsb]

my favourite bit of Lunar Trivia is that Command Module Pilot Michael Collins told Neil Armstrong "If you had any balls at all, you'd go out there and say 'We've touched down on the moon, and - OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT-" then cut your mic." making him the funniest man to ever walk on the moon.

[FistandFootMartialArts]

About any conspiracy, Mark Twain said it best with: "Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead."