Was the Moon Landing Fake?: Quick Facts

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Buzz Aldrin stands in a spacesuit on the lunar surface near a leg of the Apollo 11 lunar module, with footprints visible in the moon dust.

Front page of The Huntsville Times with the headline "Man Enters Space" and a photo of Yuri Gagarin, reporting his historic 1961 spaceflight in Vostok 1.

Stanley Kubrick stands in the foreground directing actors in white coats and silver space suits on the set of "2001: A Space Odyssey."

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