Did We Arrive On Mars In A Conspiracy?

The moon landings were a topic of debate and conspiracy theories, with some suggesting that the images were faked. The 1978 Hollywood film Capricorn One popularized these theories, based on Kaysing’s book, which imagined a Mars landing in a film. Social media users are sharing videos of astronaut Buzz Aldrin being interviewed by American television host Conan O’Brien, claiming that Aldrin did not actually land on the Moon.

Fifty years after Apollo 11, Moon landing conspiracists remain skeptical, but a small cult of conspiracy theorists maintains the historic event. They claim that the entire moon landing was a massive conspiracy perpetrated by NASA using elaborate sets and special effects. The most notable claim of these conspiracy theories is that the six crewed landings (1969–1972) were faked and that twelve Apollo astronauts did not actually land on the Moon.

The story of an ill-fated Mars mission and the conspiracy that followed is explored in Capricorn One, a 1978 British-produced American thriller film. Conspiracy theorists have suggested that the image shows an actual doorway carved into the rock by an intelligent alien species. While humans have not yet visited Mars, NASA has sent numerous rovers, landers, and orbiters to explore the Red Planet. One researcher hypothesizes that experiments carried out by NASA’s Viking landers in 1976 could have inadvertently killed microbes living in the Red Planet.