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"Har mennesket været på månen"

The verdict

Humans have been on the moon: 12 astronauts successfully walked on the lunar surface across 6 crewed NASA missions (Apollo 11-17) from July 1969 to December 1972, confirmed by multiple independent sources documenting astronauts, dates, mission details, and recovered geological evidence.

The analysis

The claim is comprehensively supported by multiple independent sources. Norwegian Wikipedia's article on moon landings[1] documents that the first crewed moon landing was Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as the first humans to walk on the lunar surface. The same source lists all 12 astronauts who walked on the moon: Armstrong and Aldrin (Apollo 11), Pete Conrad and Alan Bean (Apollo 12), Alan Shepard (Apollo 14), David Scott and James Irwin (Apollo 15), John Young and Charles Duke (Apollo 16), and Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17). Danish science publication Videnskab.dk[3] independently confirms these 12 people walked on the moon with the final mission (Apollo 17) in December 1972. Norwegian publication illvit.no[2] corroborates that Apollo 11 was fifty years prior to publication and that five additional crewed landings followed through 1972. Physical evidence supports these claims: Videnskab.dk[3] documents that moon rock and soil samples from these missions underwent scientific analysis, with dating of solidified lava showing lunar seas formed 3.1 to 3.8 billion years ago. Forskning.no[4] acknowledges that conspiracy theories denying the landings have circulated for decades but contextualizes them as unsubstantiated claims rather than credible alternatives.

Who benefits

NASA and the U.S. space program benefit from confirming the Apollo program's success and the nation's technological achievement during the Cold War space race. The scientific community benefits from accurate documentation of major human accomplishments and geological discoveries. Conspiracy theorists benefit from moon landing denial through media attention, book sales, and audience engagement—though these motives operate outside mainstream institutional incentives.

Origin trail

NASA's Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the moon. This represents the documented historical origin of humans being on the moon.

Evidence the verdict was based on

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Supporting (4)

SUPPORTSno.wikipedia.orgScraped
Månelanding – Wikipedia

USAs Apollo 11-tokt var det første bemannede romfartøy som landet på månen den 20. juli 1969... Totalt (pr. 2009) har tolv mennesker gått på månen.

SUPPORTSillvit.noScraped
JO! Mennesket var på månen | illvit.no

For over 50 år siden kom astronautene i Apollo 11-romferden til månen, og Neil Armstrong og Buzz Aldrin var de første som kunne plante foten i månestøvet. Fram til 1972 fulgte ytterligere fem bemannede månelandinger.

SUPPORTSvidenskab.dkScraped
12 mennesker har gået på Månen, men der er stadig meget, vi ikke ved om den

12 mennesker har gået på Månen... Udforskningen af Månen ophørte ikke efter Apollo 17-missionen, der var den sjette og sidste månelanding, og som fandt sted i december 1972.

SUPPORTSforskning.noScraped
Ja, vi har faktisk vært på månen - Forskning.no

I flere tiår har det sirkulert påstander om at mennesker aldri har landet på Månen... Nå har fenomenet begynt å dukke opp i Norge også.

Context & origin (1)

CONTEXTforskning.noScraped
forskning.no

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