Launch of Apollo 11

According to Kaysing, the launch of Apollo Saturn V rocket was real but they just never sent astronauts to the moon.  

Bill Kaysing (Moon Hoax Investigator):
"The Astronauts were launched with the Saturn V (five), then in other account for their disappearance they simply orbited the earth for 8 days. And in the anteroom they showed these fake pictures of the Astronauts on the moon. On the 8th day, the command capsule separated from the vehicle and descended to the earth."

Astronauts inside the command capsule

This theory inspire the 1978 movie, Capricorn 1, in which the government attempts to fool the world by faking a mission to mars"

Mars Mission

Astronauts shown with American Flag on Mars

Astronaut on the Mars Mission:
"We do not claim this planet is the name of America, We claim it as the name of all the people of the planet earth"

The Apollo footage is striking similar to the Capricorn 1
Producer Paul Lazarus (Capricorn One) suggests the film's plot line could be more fact then fiction.

Paul Lazarus (producer, Capricorn One):
 "I believe had they wanted to that NASA could indeed have pulled off the greatest hoax of all time, never sent any one to the moon, and we created in the television studio and I believe it could have been done in that time, technology was in place. What we put up in screen was our own simulated version, whatever we could do within a four million aid budget."

• In the book great lies to tell small kids by Andy Riely one of the lies is "all the moon landings were shot on a set on mars"
• The 1978 film Capricorn One portrayed a fictional NASA attempt to fake a landing on Mars.
On the June 7, 2006 edition of The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert said "Tonight's guest is a pioneer in Mars exploration. Hopefully tonight he'll explain how they faked a space landing there too."

Apollo Moon Landing Hoax

Apollo Moon Landing hoax accusations are claims that some or all elements of the Apollo Moon landings were faked by NASA and possibly members of other involved organizations. Some groups and individuals have advanced alternate historical narratives which tend, to varying degrees, to include the following common elements:

• The Apollo Astronauts did not land on the Moon;
• NASA and possibly others intentionally deceived the public into believing the landing(s) did occur by manufacturing, destroying, or tampering with evidence, including photos, telemetry tapes, transmissions, and rock samples;
• NASA and possibly others continue to actively participate in the conspiracy to this day.

According to a 1999 poll conducted by the The Gallup Organization, 6 percent of the US public believes the landing was faked, while what Gallup termed an "overwhelming majority", some 89 percent, did not.

These hoax claims are widely dismissed as baseless by mainstream scientists, technicians and engineers, as well as by NASA and its astronauts.

History

Folklorist Linda Degh pointed out that the film Capricorn One may have given a "boost" to the hoax theory's popularity in the post-Vietnam War, post-Watergate era when segments of the American public were disinclined to trust official accounts. Degh writes that "The mass media catapult these half-truths into a kind of twilight zone where people can make their guesses sound as truths. Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance."

In his book A Man on the Moon, published in 1994, Andrew Chaikin mentions that at the time of Apollo 8's lunar-orbit mission in December 1968 such conspiratorial stories were already in circulation.

The first book dedicated to the subject, Bill Kaysing's self-published We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle was released in 1974 , two years after the Apollo Moon flights had ceased.

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