Not too long ago, I unfollowed an acquaintance on Instagram, when she casually commented that the 1969 moon landing was an elaborate government hoax. Faked. Never happened.

This unfollow wasn’t some rash reaction. I don’t believe that the moon landing occurred because the media (and/or “government propaganda”) told me it happened. Rather, my reaction was planted firmly in science. In primary sources. In reason.

Hell, in being a lifelong space nerd.

I knew too much in the face of my friend, who based belief on far too little. I knew NASA’s Apollo program didn’t land men on the moon just once, but six times. Based on the number of people involved in the program (hundreds of thousands), I knew a study had determined it is essentially a mathematical impossibility that a ruse of that magnitu

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