Apollo 11

Did then-President Richard Nixon fake a phone call to the moon when astronauts first landed in 1969? No, that's not true: According to AT&T, the call went from Washington, D.C., to Houston to the moon using a capsule communicator. The call was made using "telephone-radio transmission," the National Archives wrote. The claim appeared in a Facebook post on June 18,…

Did Buzz Aldrin reveal that the Apollo 11 mission was faked when he corrected Conan O'Brien's recollection of having watched the moon landing live on TV as a child by telling him that what he watched was an animation? No, that's not true: Buzz Aldrin made a technical distinction to clarify that the live TV broadcasts showed an animation of…

Does the mismatch between lunar boot prints and the smooth sole of Neil Armstrong's "space boot" confirm that U.S. astronauts never walked on the moon? No, that's not true: This recirculated hoax is missing context, as Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew wore inner pressure space boots with a smooth tread inside "overshoes" that left the rough textured boot…

Is the atmosphere on Mars too thin for the Ingenuity helicopter to fly and does it lack enough oxygen for combustion to brake any ship on landing? No, that's not true: Mars' atmospheric volume is less than 1% of that on Earth and the Red Planet has less than the 16% oxygen found on Earth, but scientists have found ways…

Do these videos prove that astronauts found an "alien city" on the moon during the Apollo 20 mission and then attempted to conceal their discovery? No, that's not true: The Apollo 20 mission never happened, astronauts did not find evidence of extraterrestrial cities during other visits to the moon and there is zero evidence that these videos are authentic. The…