I was only 6 years old when NASA made their Moon film in a Hollywood studio that fooled the world. I vaguely remember the teachers in my infants school gathering us around a black and white TV and telling us how important this moon thing was.  Because no cartoon was on the TV I wasn’t interested and anyway, it was a very bad picture. One small step for man, one giant step for mankind? More like one gigantic lie to fool mankind.

Forty years later the whole world might as well have watched a cartoon because as the whole Apollo 11 mission unravels with time and common sense. I can now see it was the biggest hoax of the millenium. Let me try and back up my theory.

How did the astronauts survive passing through the Van Allen Radiation Belt that is 500 miles above the earth? Some scientists say you would need six feet of solid lead to ensure your body doesn’t disintegrate. Oh, and also there are Solar Flares, Solar Winds and Cosmic Rays for the astronauts to defy. Remember, all they were dressed in was Michelin suits and they were travelling in a tin can that was less robust than a Volvo estate.

From the live broadcast there are no stars in the lunar sky, none at all. Very strange when you can see quite a few stars from earth, even with streetlights about.

There is no blast crater that would have been made when Apollo 11 made its landing? Was Apollo 11 a glider?

The American Flag is waving despite there being no wind on the moon’s surface.

The television images are very grainy, despite the satellite technology of the day (perhaps they made the live pictures grainy so we wouldn’t spot Steven Spielberg directing)

Although there were cameras fitted to the astronauts’ chests’  and they had no way in focusing and adequately lighting their photographs (the astronauts were wearing these cumbersome gloves) all still images of the Apollo 11 mission are perfect. Was Annie Liebowitz up there with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?

Why, when technology has accelerated fantastically in the past 40 years, has there not been another mission to the moon?

It’s the biggest con of all time. The world was in a grip of a cold war between the USA and Russia. Russia first launched, Sputnik 1, an unmanned satellite, to explore the upper atmosphere in 1957. Most of the Sputniks failed woefully.  Sputnik 25 failed to escape from the earth’s orbit for its trip to the moon and decayed on January 5th, 1963. They gave up. The Americans thought the Russians were attempting to launch nuclear weapons from space so they began their Apollo programme. They become a little over-excited though when they told the world they were about to send men to the moon.

It didn’t happen. It was a PR stunt. Spin doctors today deem the people who organised the hoax as Gods. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin should have won Oscars. If you like that kind of thing go and watch Capricorn One, a film about a hoax Mars Landing, or Star Wars.

Don’t believe the hype!