Why do people deny the moon landing?

In the summer of 2009 the United States celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the first Moon landing, Apollo 11. Amidst all of the hoopla virtually every news story, especially in the electronic world, made some comment about a supposedly rising belief that humans have never landed on the Moon. Why? read more

Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt has been philosophical about this turn: “If people decide they’re going to deny the facts of history and the facts of science and technology, there’s not much you can do with them. read more

It’s likely a variety of reasons, I’ve given this area a bit of thought before owing to a family member being so into these things. * Lack of knowledge regarding physics. read more

It doesn't answer the question 'did we go to the moon' (which, yes, we did - fly by of the moon shows the lunar lander and astronaut foot prints quite clearly, still sitting there in the vacuum of space), but it more interestingly illustrates why faking a moon landing would be such an insane feat. read more