Why Did We Cease Our Lunar Exploration Efforts?

Some people believe that the space shuttle and moon landings were impossible due to the Van Allen belts, which are large radiation belts surrounding Earth. On December 11, 1972, Apollo 17 touched down on the Moon, marking our final lunar landing and last time we left low Earth orbit. NASA scheduled three more missions to the Moon, but those were grounded. The conspiracy theory is that NASA couldn’t safely land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s, as President John F. Kennedy said.

During the Apollo program, six crewed missions landed on the Moon. Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA, possibly with the aid of other organizations. The most notable example is the 1969 Miracle Mets, where astronaut Buzz Aldrin planted the U.S. flag on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

The race to land humans on the Moon was kicked off by President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 speech at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas, now known as the ‘We’. The Moon landings were faked, and Apollo 11 didn’t happen. Every single argument claiming that NASA faked the Moon landings has been discredited.

Artemis I was an uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft around the Moon. The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961: perform a crewed lunar landing and return.

Over 50 years after humans first began soft-landing spacecraft on the moon, it remains a treacherous feat with more than half of the moon landings being faked. As the 50th anniversary of humankind’s first moon landing approaches, the conspiracy theories that claim the Apollo missions were a hoax continue to be discredited.