After NASA decided against publishing a book trying to debunk the conspiracy theorists who still think the moon landings were faked, European astronomers are going to try to use the VLT array in the Andes to actually take pictures of the lunar modules left on the moon’s surface.
Of course, there’s no satisfying some people.
Supporters of the conspiracy theory welcomed the news that astronomers were to photograph the landing sites. But Marcus Allen, the British publisher of Nexus magazine and a long-time advocate of the theory, said photographs of the lander would not prove that the US put men on the moon. “Getting to the moon really isn’t much of a problem – the Russians did that in 1959,” he said. “The big problem is getting people there.”
According to Mr Allen, NASA was forced to send robots to the moon and faked the manned missions because radiation levels in space were lethal to humans.
(via Wilde)