To be fair, some may actually believe what they say. Kaysing may have. But he was still wrong, and made claims that are sickening (NASA killed the Apollo 1 astronauts to keep them quiet; NASA blew up Challenger on purpose to keep the astronauts quiet about the “fact” that space travel is impossible, and much more). And he was disingenuous: in the Fox TV show, he was quoted as saying that if NASA pointed Hubble at the Moon landings, it would show clear evidence if they were real, and further said that if he saw those pictures he would stop making his claims. First, Hubble cannot see objects that small on the Moon. Second, NASA returned literally thousands of images from the astronauts themselves! Why would he believe a few more from Hubble?
As I said, I’m saddened by his death, but I am far more saddened that thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of school children might buy into this outrageous bill of goods. I have heard many stories of kids talking to their teachers about the missions being faked, and more galling, of teachers telling their school children that Apollo wasn’t real! I worry about the erosive affect this has on young minds, teaching them to ignore evidence and to simply believe what they are told– the very antithesis of what science is. ..."
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If ANY of the Moon landings (all SIX of them) were hoaxes, the Soviets would have blown the cover off the hoaxes very quickly. There was a ship or submarine stationed in interneational waters for more than 38 yearfs observing Cape Canaveral/Kennedy all during the Mercury, Gemini, and P\Apollo missions.
I LIVED through the Cold War, YOU DID NOT. I have a VERY good memory. There's a reason why one of my friends said I have steel trap memory, I corrected her about light years being a unit of distance, not time, and I was PAYING her at the time, because I still needed a lot of help after I was released from a nursing home in May, 2010. We are still friends, so I was NOT paying her to be my friend. She was the one who fired some one else that I was paying who panicked when I was in a low blood sugar episode.
Bill Kaysing was a technical writer, NOT AN ASTORNAUT. He died in 2005.