The general idea behind most moon landing conspiracy theories is that the landing was faked on a sound stage with actors, a set, and professional lighting taking the place of the real ... In modern times, we could just change the color with CG, but back then, altering images with computers wasn't possible. read more
In retrospect, a color camera would have been a good idea, even if it wasn't broadcast live. A color camera was used on Apollo 12 and it recorded Pete Conrad's first steps on the Moon, the quality was still poor. read more
RedShark Replay (and in honour of the 47th anniversary of the first moon landing). A sizeable number of otherwise quite sane people now believe that the Moon landings never took place. Here’s one of the many reasons why they are very, very wrong. read more
Colour TV cameras followed quickly, and the first live colour TV from space was sent back by the Apollo 10 mission. Apollo 11, the first landing, carried a colour TV camera for the internal TV broadcasts. However, there was one other obstacle to overcome for the landing: making a TV camera that would work in a vacuum. read more