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| Recent polls indicate that approximately 20% of Americans believe that the U.S. has never landed on the moon. |
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| there’s no air in the moon’s atmosphere, and therefore no wind to cause the flag to blow |
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| there would be a blast crater underneath the lunar module to mark its landing |
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| On any video footage or photograph of the landings, no crater is visible, almost as though the module was simply placed there |
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| The surface of the moon is covered in fine lunar dust |
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| On the moon there is only one strong light source: the Sun |
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| all shadows should run parallel to one another |
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| videos and photographs clearly show that shadows fall in different directions |
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| to reach the moon, astronauts had to pass through what is known as the Van Allen radiation belt |
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| The belt is held in place by Earth’s magnetic field and stays perpetually in the same place |
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| The Apollo missions to the moon marked the first ever attempts to transport living humans through the belt |
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| There are no clouds on the moon, so stars are perpetually visible and significantly brighter than what we see through the filter of Earth’s atmosphere. |
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| Some photographs are high-quality, however, and yet still no stars are shown |
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| The cameras used by astronauts during the moon landings had a multitude of cross-hairs to aid with scaling and direction |
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| Some of the images, however, clearly show the cross-hairs behind objects in the scene, implying that photographs may have been edited or doctored after being taken |
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