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(July...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eHEADLINE: Apollo 11: 40 years later some refuse to believe\u003cbr/\u003eCAPTION: Forty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon some still insist the entire mission was a hoax put on by the federal government. (July 19)\u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]  \u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:apollo launch (courtesy NASA)]\u003cbr/\u003eIt's quite possibly the greatest achievement of mankind.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Eagle has landed\u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:walking on the moon courtesy NASA]\u003cbr/\u003e40 years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, took the first steps on the Moon. \u003cbr/\u003e(SOT Armstrong)\u003cbr/\u003eThat's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.\u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:dissolve out]\u003cbr/\u003eIt was a crowning moment for the U-S in particular and the scientific world in general.\u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:go to Sibrel and then the set up of the moon lander at Air and space]\u003cbr/\u003eBut, believe it or not, a small number of people still insist these steps took place in a sound stage and that the Apollo Eleven mission was one of the greatest government cover-ups in history.\u003cbr/\u003e(SOT Bart Sibrel)\u003cbr/\u003eThis is not a theory that they didn't go. It's an absolute fact that they didn't go.\u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:sibrel broll]\u003cbr/\u003eBart Sibrel (sih- brel - like in umbrella) is one of these people.\u003cbr/\u003eIn fact he's made a number of movies on this documenting what he says are inconsistencies that he argues shows the whole thing was a hoax.\u003cbr/\u003e(SOT Sibrel)\u003cbr/\u003eThe footage that we have shows them faking being half way to the moon. That proves they couldn't go half way because they are faking being halfway. They all had identical equipment so if my volkswagen can't go 500 mph none  of them can so that means none of them were able to leave earth orbit.\u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:footage from his movie, courtesy moonmovie.com]\u003cbr/\u003eThat footage is this.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's material he says shows the astronauts used cardboard to make the Earth appear farther away than it really was, thus hiding the fact they never left Earth's orbit never mind went to the moon.\u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:dissolve to mall scene]\u003cbr/\u003eDon't see it? Well, neither do a lot of people and most Americans aren't buying his argument.\u003cbr/\u003eI definitely think we went to the moon.\u003cbr/\u003eHow could you not believe?\u003cbr/\u003eIt was there, it was real, what can I say?\u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:people looking at Apollo 11 craft]\u003cbr/\u003eBut these folks are no experts so we turned to a few including one man who got to circle the moon.\u003cbr/\u003e(SOT William Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut)\u003cbr/\u003eThey were fake. We did them at Roswell, smoke mirrors you know dry ice.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWait, really?\u003cbr/\u003e(SOT Anders)\u003cbr/\u003eNo they were pretty real as far as I know. But I only know Apollo 8 so I don't know if  Neil and Buzz actually pulled it off, it looked to me like they actually did.\u003cbr/\u003eThis is no laughing matter though to historians.\u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:Launius walk up]\u003cbr/\u003eRoger Launius is a senior curator at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, and says he's dealt with this for awhile.\u003cbr/\u003eSOT Roger Launius\u003cbr/\u003elook here's the bottom line we did indeed go to the moon\u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:chaikin lead in --no broll of him]\u003cbr/\u003eAuthor Andrew Chaikin also has some pretty strong words on the non-believers, too.\u003cbr/\u003e(SOT Andrew Chaikin)\u003cbr/\u003eThey are sadly misinformed. They are indulging themselves in willful ignorance they are an embarrassment to the great efforts  of the countless men and women who made Apollo a reality.\u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:moon rocks, close up of landing modular]\u003cbr/\u003eThey both have the answers on everything the conspiracy theorists can throw at them from questions about why the flag moves --- it was being planted into the ground -- to why there are no stars are in these pictures -- the moon's surface was too bright for them to show up.\u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:archival footage]\u003cbr/\u003eBut they say that perhaps the best evidence that we went there is what didn't happen.\u003cbr/\u003e(SOT Launius)\u003cbr/\u003eThe Soviet Union had it's own space program and it was very very capable. And it was seeking to go to the moon as well and failed. 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