On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the lunar surface, joined by Buzz Aldrin 22 minutes later in NASA’s Apollo 11 mission. Armstrong made history, digging the US flag into the surface and delivering his “one small step” speech that brought an end to the Space Race with the Soviet Union. The event has been shrouded in conspiracy though, by wild claims NASA faked the event in a film studio and slowed down the footage in order to boost morale in America at the height of the Cold War.

But, film expert Howard Berry finally but those rumours to bed in 2019. Writing for Quartz, he explained: “Some people may contend that when you look at people moving in slow motion, they appear to be in a low-gravity environment. “Slowing down film requires more frames than usual, so you start with a camera capable of capturing more frames in a second than a normal one—this is called over-cranking. “When this is played back at the normal frame rate, this footage plays back for longer.

Some claim NASA's mission was filmed in a studio

The Apollo 11 crew in 1969

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“If you can’t over-crank your camera, but you record at a normal frame rate, you can instead artificially slow down the footage, but you need a way to store the frames and generate new extra frames to slow it down. “At the time of the broadcast, magnetic disk recorders capable of storing slow-motion footage could only capture 30 seconds in total, for a playback of 90 seconds of slow-motion video. “To capture 143 minutes in slow motion (the length of the broadcast), you’d need to record and store 47 minutes of live-action, which simply wasn’t possible.” Mr Berry, who is known best for being the editor and producer of Kick-Ass in 2010, explained why pre-recording the landing in a studio also seems unfeasible. READ MORE: Moon landing shock: Neil Armstrong’s bizarre ‘cryptic’ message exposed

Mission control in Houston

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon

The crew touching back down on Earth

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