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What do astronomers say about Moon landing deniers? Batting down the conspiracy theory with an assist from the 1969 Miracle Mets

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  • What do astronomers have to say about the Moon landing conspiracy theories?
  • – Prisha M., age 14, Mumbai, India
    What do astronomers have to say about the Moon landing conspiracy theories?
  • – Prisha M., age 14, Mumbai, India Back in 1969 – more than a half-century ago – Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon.

Another miracle

    • They won the fewest games in the major leagues in 1967, and the third-fewest in 1968.
    • It seems very unlikely they could have won the championship the very next year.
    • That the claim the Mets won is just a hoax, a canard, a fake story?

Seen on TV


    First: Millions of Americans watched the World Series on television – approximately 11 million to 17 million viewers per game, according to Nielsen ratings. Many of those people are still alive today and remember seeing the Mets win. Why would all of them lie? That doesn’t make sense. Now consider this: More than 600 million people around the world watched the Moon landing on TV.

Seen at stadiums

    • But a skeptic might say “so what” – maybe the entire World Series was somehow faked, re-created in a TV studio.
    • Yet ticket records document more than 250,000 people saw the games in person.
    • Along with them were hundreds of TV, radio and newspaper reporters and support personnel who also witnessed the action directly.

Even the opposition agreed

    • And the reason no one talks – well, maybe everyone was paid off.
    • Although the New York newspapers and TV stations may have wanted the Mets to win, the Baltimore reporters and broadcasters, and especially the players and fans, did not.
    • Yet all of them – even the players – admitted their team had lost.
    • If the Series was a sham, why didn’t a single one of them who opposed the Mets expose the fraud?

Score cards and Moon rocks

    • At the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, you can find score cards and programs from the games, as well as the glove worn by center fielder Tommie Agee.
    • But the physical evidence for the Moon landings cannot be faked so easily.
    • First, the Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts are unlike rocks on Earth.
    • Scientists from many countries have examined these rocks and continue to study them today.
    • So why do some people continue to insist that humans never reached the Moon?