On July 20, 1969, millions of TV viewers tuned in to watch man walk on the Moon for the first time as part of the Apollo 11 mission. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” Neil Armstrong famously said after the live feed from the lunar surface was patched in to CBS News:

However, not everybody believed that what they saw on-screen that day was authentic. In less than a decade, conspiracy theories about the Moon landing being faked started to gain traction. It probably didn’t help matters that CBS had utilized visual simulations and scale models leading up to the broadcast’s big moment:

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