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Sheer Lunacy ( Preview )

Which is nuttier: denying we ever went to the moon or trying to convince the true nonbelievers?

By Steve Mirsky

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Once upon a time--July 20, 1969, to be specific--two earthlings got out of their little spaceship and wandered around on the moon for a while. Ten more earthlings walked on the moon over the next three and a half years. The End.

Unfortunately, not quite. A fair number of Americans think that this whole business of moon landings really is a fairy tale. They believe that the moon landings were a big hoax staged on a set in the Mojave Desert, perpetuated apparently to convince everyone that U.S. technology was the bestest in the whole wide world.

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