Houston, we have no problem: This video doesn’t prove the moon landing was a hoax

A recent Facebook post casts doubt on the Apollo 11 moon landing with an edited video that makes it appear as if someone in a green screen suit is holding the edge of the American flag planted on the moon in 1969. 

But, as we’ve reported many times, the moon landing is not a hoax. 

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Although there’s no wind on the moon, NASA engineers "designed a flagpole with a horizontal bar allowing the flag to ‘fly’ without the benefit of wind to overcome the effects of the moon's lack of an atmosphere," according to a 1993 NASA report on the "political and technical aspects of placing a flag on the moon." 

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Says NASA spent more than $165 million over 10 years to develop a pen that "writes in zero gravity, upside down" and in extreme temperatures while the "Russians used a pencil instead."

The flag is not "flying" because someone in a studio maneuvered it in a green screen suit.

The report said the flag planted on the moon by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin has a ripple because the horizontal bar got stuck, and they couldn’t pull it all the way out.

We rate claims that this video proves the moon landing was a hoax Pants on Fire!