Filmmaker SG Collins says the technology was not available in 1969 to hoax the moon landings.

One expert hopes to have nipped the conspiracy theory in the bud once and for amid claims it would have been impossible to hoax the moon missions.

Filmmaker SG Collins of Post War Media made a video which describes in detail how videotape technology of the late 1960s was not up to the job of making a fake moon landing.

The problem, he says, is that in 1969 there was not any video tape that could have recorded unbroken for long enough to create a fake version of the live broadcast of the mission and from the lunar surface.

The live broadcast, which was the most watched in history lasted around two and a half hours straight, with no gaps.

Mr Collins says no such video tape existed to go for that amount of time back then.

He said in the video: "Did they fake going to the moon? No, I am pretty sure they did not because they could not,

"Some people say in 1969 they were in capable of sending a man to the moon, but were able to stage the whole thing in a TV studio.