NASA's rarely seen moon walk footage is 'triggering' people to question if any of it was real

A video of astronauts stumbling around on the moon has prompted people to interrogate whether the landing really was real.

Have humans ever actually stepped foot on the moon? Is the video of NASA astronauts walking on it just the result of someone with a dab hand for editing?

Sadly, rather than just celebrating the monumental wins of the world, some can't help but spread conspiracy theories about whether such occasions ever happened at all.

First things first, imagine how many people would've had to be kept quiet if the moon landing never actually happened. And not just kept quiet for a few days or weeks, but for over a whopping 50 years. You'd certainly think someone may've squeaked by now.

And should you dare raise your concerns about people walking on the moon?

Well, the second person to ever do so has previously thrown a punch at a conspiracy theorist who questioned the event. Buzz Aldrin may be 94 years of age now, but it's best to save the black eye for another day eh?

Unfortunately, after seeing footage of NASA's moon landing, some people have questioned it's authenticity anyway, many concerns triggered as a result of how the astronauts appear to - or I should really say try to - walk in the video.

Basically, the video reveals it's a lot trickier to walk on the moon than people first imagined.

Stay on your feet, lads. (X/Historic Videos/NASA)

The guys up there seem to struggle to hold their balance, as well as finding it tough to get much traction to move around.

In the short video taken up there by the NASA astronauts, they even seem to get a little frustrated at times. Come on guys, most people can only dream of having the chance to try to walk on the moon – try to have a bit of fun with it.

And after seeing the video shared on X a number of people have said that it just makes them more convinced that no-one ever went up there.

One wrote: "It’s so fake that, no other country tried it again," while another said: "Studio was slippery."

That’s of course a reference to the theory that the whole thing was shot in a movie studio.

To be fair, if it was it’s arguably as impressive as the moon landing itself, given the technology that would have been available to those in the cinema industry at the time.

Don't hate until you try (X/Historic Videos/NASA)

Another conspiracy theorist said: "So how is the camera/cameraman so steady......and if they are struggling to walk just one step how did they succeed to set up the camera for the video in the first place????"

Well, the camera would have been on a tripod, therefore nice and steady. Also, they probably dug the legs of the tripod into the dirt.

You see, the problem with trying to walk on the moon is that gravity is so much less up there, meaning that everything only weighs about 17 percent of what it would weigh down on earth.

That’s going to make walking as you would down here difficult.

You’d have to essentially learn to do it all over again in different gravity.

It must just be harder than it looks. (X/Historic Videos/NASA)

What’s more, those space suits can’t exactly have been easy to get around in, can they?

They’re huge – which they have to be – and presumably movement would be reduced.

Add all the other factors to that, and you can start to see why they might have struggled.

Or, perhaps they just filmed it in a sound stage at Area 51 in New Mexico, with an alien standing behind the camera dressed as Stanley Kubrick.

Just believe whatever you want, really.

Topics: NASA, Social Media, Space, Viral, Conspiracy Theories, Science, Technology

Tom Wood

Tom Wood is a LADbible journalist and Twin Peaks enthusiast. Despite having a career in football cut short by a chronic lack of talent, he managed to obtain degrees from both the University of London and Salford. According to his French teacher, at the weekend he mostly likes to play football and go to the park with his brother. Contact Tom on [email protected]

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