Two-page fact sheet, marked reissued. Says 12 astronauts walked on the Moon, lists 382 kg of samples, and answers the book “We Never Went To The Moon”, including its missing-crater argument.
“This material could not have been collected, or even manufactured on Earth, and clearly comes from an entirely different world.” source
Hosted on NASA Glenn's education site. The sheet ends with the sign-off “FGM June 1977”.
The Apollo 11 retroreflector (100 fused-silica corner cubes) was left on 21 July 1969 and is ranged from McDonald Observatory in Texas and an observatory near Grasse, France. Later reflectors: Apollo 14, 15 and Lunokhod 2.
“this reflector requires no power and is still functioning perfectly after 35 years.” source
OFFICIALNASA Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office (JSC) · DATE TO VERIFY
NASA's curation page: six Apollo missions returned 382 kg of lunar material, 2,200 separate samples from six sites, between 1969 and 1972. Nearly 400 samples go out each year for research and teaching.
OFFICIALArizona State University (LROC team) · 2009-07-17
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera imaged five of the six Apollo sites between 11 and 15 July 2009. Low sun cast long shadows from the descent stages; Apollo 14 showed its science package and footpaths.
OFFICIALNASA Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio · 2011-09-06
NASA release of LRO images of three Apollo sites: the Apollo 12 descent stage, footpaths at Apollo 14, and the Apollo 17 rover and surface experiments package.
OFFICIALJodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester · 2009-07-03
Jodrell Bank releases its July 1969 recordings: its scientists tracked Apollo 11's lander and the Soviet probe Luna 15, which crashed at 15:50 on 21 July, a few hours before the Americans lifted off.
OFFICIALNASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive · DATE TO VERIFY
Mission record: launch on Saturn V SA-504 on 16 July 1969; after the translunar burn the CSM separated from the S-IVB stage containing the lunar module and docked with it.
SpaceX plans in-space propellant aggregation: tanker Starships fill a depot Starship in low Earth orbit, which fuels the lander. Blue Origin defers propellant transfer and uses three transfer stages.
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Press
Newspaper and magazine coverage, then and now. Linked, never copied.
Explains the rocket equation behind refuelling: Apollo launched everything on one Saturn V, while today's landers launch nearly empty and are filled in low Earth orbit.
“A Starship or Blue Moon loaded with enough propellant to fly to the Moon and land would be too heavy to launch.” source
Report that the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office declined to charge Buzz Aldrin, 72, for punching Bart Sibrel at a Beverly Hills hotel on 9 September 2002 after Sibrel pressed a Bible at him.
“it is unlikely a jury would find Aldrin guilty of a misdemeanor battery charge.” source
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Analysis
Our own reading of the file, written from the sources on the other sheets. Opinion is marked as such.
The hoax claim says the landings were filmed on Earth. The record answers it with things anyone with the right equipment can check today. Observatories in several countries still range the mirrors left by Apollo 11, 14 and 15. The lunar samples are studied by scientists worldwide and, NASA says, formed without oxygen or water. A NASA orbiter photographed the descent stages and footpaths decades later. And the landing was followed from outside NASA: Jodrell Bank in England tracked the lander, and the Soviet government reported the landing to its own citizens.
A newer argument asks why Artemis needs a series of refuelling flights when Apollo did not. The answer is architecture, not ability. Apollo's lander and command ship flew to the Moon on a single Saturn V. SpaceX's lander is filled in Earth orbit by tanker flights because, as one analysis puts it, a lander loaded with enough propellant to fly to the Moon and land would be too heavy to launch. Blue Origin's 2028 plan, NASA says, defers propellant transfer and uses transfer stages instead.
Our label is Confirmed for the landings. The evidence does not rest on one archive: it is spread over mirrors, rocks, photographs and foreign tracking, and no record has surfaced that supports staging.
What it shows
That NASA reports 382 kg of lunar material from six Apollo landings, still curated and lent to researchers.
That the Apollo retroreflectors still return laser pulses to observatories outside NASA, including the APOLLO project at Apache Point.
That an orbiter photographed the landing sites in 2009 and 2011, and that Jodrell Bank tracked Apollo 11's lander in 1969.
What it doesn't prove
That every photograph or film frame from the missions is untouched; the record covers the landings, not each image.
That an independent body has checked every sample; the samples are curated by NASA and lent out from there.
Anything about Artemis schedules: the refuelling plan explains a design choice, not when or whether a landing happens.
The other side
The hoax case, as NASA itself summarised it, rests on the book “We Never Went To The Moon”: its author claims the Defense Intelligence Agency set up a secret organisation in the Nevada desert where the landings were simulated for television, and points to the missing blast crater under the lunar module in the photographs. Believers add that most of the evidence (samples, images, tracking data) passes through NASA or its partners. NASA's reply on the crater is soil mechanics, not a document of the kind sceptics want.
University project page. APOLLO uses the 3.5 m telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico, began firing at the Moon in July 2005, and times returns to about a millimetre from the Apollo 11, 14, 15 and Luna 21 reflectors.
Search results link physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/apollo/; the page we opened is the tmurphy.physics.ucsd.edu address. Page has no publication date.
COMMENTARYMichael Richmond, Rochester Institute of Technology, The Conversation · 2023-07-17
An astronomer's case: telescopes in the US, France, Germany, South Africa and Australia have detected the mirrors; the Soviet government told its citizens of the landing and President Podgorny sent Nixon a telegram.
TO VERIFY Candidates, not yet checked
The exact text of President Podgorny's 1969 telegram to Nixon (reported by The Conversation; not seen in a primary archive).
The NASA Office of Inspector General report IG-26-004 on the HLS contracts (March 2026) mentions more than 10 tanker flights; the PDF opened but its text could not be extracted, so the figure is not used.
Snopes fact-check of the Aldrin–Sibrel incident (returned HTTP 402) and the BBC report of 21 September 2002 (could not be fetched).
Found, but not linked to a source we trust. Not on the sheets until they are.