Conspiracy Theories That Still Secretly Haunt Society

In July 1969, millions of families watched Neil Armstrong step onto the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission. It was one of those television moments people remembered by the room they were sitting in, the people beside them, and the hush that seemed to fall over everything. The moon landing was also a Cold War achievement, arriving during an era when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing not only in technology, but in national pride. The alleged moon landing hoax came later, gaining attention in the 1970s through writers such as Bill Kaysing, whose book We Never Went to the Moon argued that NASA had staged the event.