2026-07-21 13:00:08
A leading astronomer has pointed out the key pieces of evidence that prove the Moon landings weren’t faked.
Dr Greg Brown, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London, has shut down wild conspiracy theories which have taken hold across the internet in recent years by insisting there are plenty of internationally-verified photographs and video from the lunar trips as well as space rocks collected from the surface of the Moon and the scientific data from equipment installed by astronauts which is still used today.
Brown told the Daily Mail newspaper: “This imagery [from the Lunar landings] has been independently verified by institutions across the world, and not just by NASA and the USA.”
He went on to add the team of Apollo 11 installed a lunar laser ranging retroreflector array which is still used by scientists almost 60 years later, saying: “These are still used today to determine the precise distance to the Moon by bouncing laser light off of them and timing the beam’s return.
“It is these measurements that revealed that the Moon is moving very slowly away from the Earth at around the rate your fingernails grow!”
Speaking about the samples collected during the trips to the Moon, Brown explained the space rocks have slight similarities to materials found on Earth which suggests they have a similar origin.
He told the publication: “This has lent support to the theory that the Moon likely formed from a collision between the early Earth and a Mars–sized object while the Earth was still mostly molten.”
Brown also dismissed suggestions any of the pictures of video footage could have been faked, adding: “In a world of AI imagery and special effects, it is sometimes easy to forget that up until very recently, producing convincing footage of people in space was just not possible …
“On top of that, the Space Race was just that, a competition between the USA and the USSR. While the USSR managed many of the firsts, they have never disputed that ultimately the USA landed on the Moon first, a remarkable agreement considering the politics of the time.”
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