Inside the moon landing conspiracy: Was it real or fake? | 60 Minutes Australia

We've seen them with our own eyes. Those famous grainy pictures of a monumental moment in history ... the scenes of the astronauts from Apollo 11 walking for the first time on the Moon. Planting the US flag for their country. To deny that this event actually ever occurred is surely lunacy. But a documentary maker has released a film saying the moon landing was the biggest con of all time. That - far from going to the moon at all - the adventures of Apollo 11 were all fudged in a studio here on mother Earth and orchestrated by NASA and the White House to trick the Russians, their great competitors in the space race.

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