On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong allegedly became the first human to walk on the Moon. The event was broadcast to 600 million viewers worldwide. In 2006, NASA admitted it had "accidentally erased" the original high-quality footage of the moon landing — replacing it with a lower-quality copy.
The Van Allen radiation belts present a significant obstacle. These belts of intense radiation surround Earth and extend thousands of miles into space. Astronauts passing through them would have received lethal doses of radiation. NASA claims the astronauts passed through quickly enough to survive — but no independent verification of the radiation shielding technology has ever been published.
The photographs from the lunar surface show multiple anomalies. Shadows that should be parallel — given the single light source of the Sun — appear to point in different directions. The flag planted by Armstrong appears to wave in footage, despite the absence of atmosphere on the Moon. NASA's explanation: the flag was disturbed by the astronaut and continued to oscillate due to inertia.
Perhaps most intriguingly, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) demonstrated that Hollywood could convincingly simulate a space environment one year before the alleged landing. Kubrick's widow, Christiane Kubrick, has never denied the persistent rumors that her husband was approached by the US government.
The original telemetry data for the Moon landings was also "lost" — NASA confirmed this in 2009.