he equipment used for the moon landings were totally unheard of in the 1960's and is still an innovation over 30 years later. "NASA was at the cutting edge of technology, and if they didn't have it they could buy it. What they had available to them was well in advance of anything else around at that time" ("Moon Hoax Equipment" 2). This lack of knowledge is the basis of many hoax theories. "Rather than trying to understand how this equipment worked, many hoax proponents prefer to take a poor guess at how it might be claimed to work, and then show that it couldn't ("Moon Hoax Equipment" 1). If NASA did not have the technology to land on the moon, why would they have spent billions of dollars faking the technology?
             Now that nearly six percent of the American people believe the moon landings were staged many wonder why NASA would fake it. Peter Williams III, former head of Astrological research at the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago, IL explains "I imagine it is possible that
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