I remember staying up to see it the grainy images.


Of course, it never really happened, it was all taped in a remote studio in one of Area 51's hangars 

This was a couple of years before I was born, but they were still landing men on the moon when I was tiny. Think its time to pop back and get the evidence to prove the conspiracy mob wrong

Apollo 8 was on live television orbiting the moon on Christmas Eve, 1968.  Surely your memory can't be so bad you dont remember them reading Genesis (the Bible not the band).

No Apollo 8 on BBC?  No wonder people complain about it so much.

Since we're reminiscing, my parents let me sit up late to watch the first EVA.

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Which first EVA?  The one the Soviet Alexei Leonov did (which the tape was actually a fake) or the one that American Ed White did?

Probably White's walk I'm assuming, just out of curosity-was it done on live TV?

The video of Leonov doing the spacewalk was a fake-he did actually perform the walk, but they didn't film it.  The famous video where he floats out of the hatch and waves his arm-then floats around was done after the fact back on earth (I think in a neutral-bouancy tank).

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Yes.  On March 18, 1965, Alexei Leonov made history's first space walk during the Voskhod 2 mission.

There was a video made of Leonov making the spacewalk and it was released to the world's press.  It was later discovered that the video was not real (I'm not sure how that figured it out, but I want to say that someone analzied and managed to prove that it couldn't have been taken from space-I can't remember why though).  Here are some still images of that video.

Just to clarify, I meant Apollo 11's first EVA.  Not THE first EVA.

Regardless of Soviet EVA's, which I do not deny, Ed White's (to the best of my recollection) during the Gemini program, was well documented, as the American space program tended to show both failures and successes.

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Thanks Richie. I would like to see it. I think you have to be careful here. If this is a single reference source not backed up by others I would treat it with suspicion & ask myself about the author's motives & credibility. If there's any truth to it I'm surprised this hasn't been more widely publicised & discussed elsewhere. I could show you many books & articles "proving" all the old conspiracy theories about the NASA moon shots. I'm sure you've seen these many times yourself. Some are very convincing arguments indeed. There's just as many, if not more, debunking these theories. Some of the latter are emotional responses not based on any real evidence & sound less convincing to the impartial observer. If you're prepared to find fault with one argument you must also do the same for the other side when the positions are reversed.

It's always more difficult finding the truth when any historical event is partly shrouded in secrecy & misinformation for whatever reasons. You have to look at all the available "evidence" & make up your own mind. Sometimes the truth will eventually come out many decades after the event when official government documents are declassified. This might be completely different to what everyone believed at the time & for many years afterwards. The truth is often stranger than any fiction as I've found out myself. Much of what I once believed (& was even taught at school) about history & science has been disproven during my lifetime. This is sometimes very difficult to accept.