SpaceX Founder and CEO Elon Musk firmly dismissed moon landing conspiracy theories, emphasizing the authenticity of the Apollo program’s moon landings during the 1960s and 1970s.
Questioning the Moon Landings: An array of conspiracy theories have perpetuated claims that the Apollo program and its associated moon landings were falsified. Some skeptics go as far as proposing that NASA collaborated with Hollywood to stage the moon landings and that astronauts never actually set foot on the moon.
“It is insane how many people have asked me if the moon landings are fake,” Musk expressed. “They are indeed obviously real.”
The SpaceX head honcho asserts that the six manned moon landings under the Apollo program are as legitimate as the evident fact that the U.S. has not returned to the moon since. He exclaimed, “We should have built a permanent base on the moon and Mars by now!”
Significance: Musk’s aerospace company is presently developing Starship, a fully reusable launch vehicle anticipated to transport individuals and cargo back to the Moon for the first time in over fifty years as part of NASA’s Artemis program.
The United States is currently poised to deploy astronauts to the lunar surface by September 2026 with the Artemis III mission. The last instance of human lunar exploration dates back to 1972 with Apollo 17, marking the cessation of any crewed excursions beyond low-Earth orbit.