William Charles Kaysing (July 31, 1922 – April 21, 2005) was a writer who is best known for claiming that the six Apollo moon landings that took place between July 1969 and December 1972 were hoaxes. He was regarded as the father of the moon hoax movement. July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Description Role: Earth and Lunar Orbit Crew: 3; CDR, CM pilot, LM pilot Dimensions Height: 36. ... Bulk composition of the Moons mantle and crust estimated, weight percent Oxygen 42. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. ... Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong in NASAs training mockup of the Moon and lander module. ...

Education and employment history

In 1949, Kaysing received his Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Southern California. From 1956 until 1963, Kaysing worked at Rocketdyne (a division of North American Aviation and later of Rockwell International), where the Saturn V rocket engines were built. Kaysing was the company's head of technical publications but was not trained as an engineer or scientist. Kaysing's critics believe that Kaysing lacked the technical knowledge to make an informed opinion, and have denounced his conclusions. 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, South Africa, and the Middle East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics... The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly as Southern Cal[1]), located in the downtown district of Los Angeles, California, was founded in 1880, making it Californias oldest private research university. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... F-1 rocket engine Rocketdyne is the premier rocket engine design and production company in the United States. ... North American Aviation, Inc. ... Rockwell International was the ultimate incarnation of a series of companies under the sphere of influence of Willard Rockwell, who had made his fortune after the invention and successful launch of a new bearing system for truck axles in 1919. ... This article is about the rocket. ... A cold (un-ignited) rocket engine test at NASA A rocket engine is a reaction engine that can be used for spacecraft propulsion as well as terrestrial uses, such as missiles. ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The physicist Albert Einstein is probably the most famous scientist of our time. ...

His employment record at Rocketdyne shows:

• February 13, 1956 - hired as a Senior Technical Writer
• September 24, 1956 - classification changed to Service Analyst
• September 15, 1958 - classification changed to Service Engineer
• October 10, 1962 - classification changed to Publications Analyst
• May 31, 1963 - resigned for personal reasons. (Kaysing 2002:80)

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Charges that the Moon landing was a hoax

• Main article: Apollo Moon landing hoax accusations

Kaysing asserted that during his tenure at Rocketdyne he was privy to documents pertaining to the Mercury, Gemini, Atlas, and Apollo programs, arguing that one does not need an engineering or science degree to determine that a hoax was being perpetrated. Even before July 1969, he had "a hunch, an intuition, ... a true conviction" and decided that he didn't believe that anyone was going to the moon (Kaysing 2002:7). Kasysing wrote a book entitled We Never Went to the Moon, which was self-published in 1974, listing Randy Reid as a coauthor (Plait 2002:157). It was republished in 2002 by Health Research Books, with no coauthor listed. In his book, Kaysing introduced arguments that proved, according to his standards of evidence, that the moon landings were faked. Claims in the book and subsequent sources include: Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong in NASAs training mockup of the Moon and lander module. ... Project Mercury was the United States first successful manned spaceflight program. ... Project Gemini insignia Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program in which the United States of America sent humans into space, between Projects Mercury and Apollo, during the years 1963-1966. ... Atlas missile launch from Cape Canaveral in 1957 The Atlas is a venerable line of space launch vehicles originally built by the Convair Division of General Dynamics, and now Lockheed Martin. ...

• NASA simply lacked the technical expertise to put a man on the Moon.
• The absence of stars in lunar surface photographs. (Kaysing 2002:20,21,22,23,24)
• The film used by astronauts on the moon should have melted due to the supposed high levels of radiation. ^{[citation needed]}
• Unexplained optical anomalies in the photographs taken on the moon.(Kaysing 2002:23,25)
• The undulating flags seen in video clips seem incompatible with a vacuum. ^{[citation needed]}

It should be noted that most, if not all of these so-called inconsistencies are explained and/or refuted in the Apollo Moon landing hoax accusations article. NASA Insignia Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong in NASAs training mockup of the Moon and lander module. ...

Kaysing also claims that NASA staged both the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger accident, deliberately murdering the astronauts on board. His suggestion is that NASA might have learned that these astronauts were about to expose the conspiracy and needed to guarantee their silence. A vocal advocate of conspiracy theories, Kaysing believed that there is a high level conspiracy involving the CIA, Federal Reserve, IRS and other government agencies to brain wash the American public, poison their food supply and control the media. ^[1] He also implies that the death of NASA safety inspector Thomas Ronald Baron in a traffic accident with a train a week after he testified before Congress, and the disappearance of his 500-page report, was not an accident. He was also a participant in the Fox documentary Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?, which aired on February 15, 2001. Apollo One is the official name given retroactively to the Apollo/Saturn 204 (AS-204) spacecraft, destroyed by fire during a training exercise on January 27, 1967, at Pad 34 (Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral) atop a Saturn IB rocket. ... The launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission 51L/STS-33, the 25th of the STS (Space Transportation System) program, began at an estimated time of 16:38:00. ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit. ... A conspiracy theory is a theory that defies common historical or current understanding of events, under the claim that those events are the result of manipulations by two or more individuals or various secretive powers or conspiracies. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... The Federal Reserve System is headquartered in the Eccles Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC. The Federal Reserve System (also the Federal Reserve; informally The Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. ... Seal of the Internal Revenue Service The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the United States government agency that collects taxes and enforces the internal revenue laws. ... Mind control (or thought control) has the premise that an outside source can control an individuals thinking, behavior or consciousness (either directly or more subtly). ... A congress is a gathering of people, especially a gathering for a political purpose. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

In 1997, Kaysing filed a lawsuit against astronaut Jim Lovell for libel when Lovell called Kaysing's claims "wacky" in the San José Metro News, July 25-31, 1996.^[2] 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... James Arthur Lovell, Jr. ... Libel redirects here. ... The San Jose Metro is a free weekly newspaper based in San Jose, California, that serves the greater San Francisco Bay Area. ...

The guy is wacky. His position makes me feel angry. We spent a lot of time getting ready to go to the moon. We spent a lot of money, we took great risks, and it's something everyone in this country should be proud of. — James Lovell

The case was dismissed in 1999 (Plait 2002:173). 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ...

Conspiracy against Kaysing?

Kaysing believed that there was a conspiracy against him. Some of the items of evidence he gave for that are:

• On December 7, 1975, Kaysing was on a three-hour radio program on KOME in San Jose. In the middle of the program, the transmitter went off the air. Kaysing claims that the FCC and police initially said that someone burned the transmitter with a helicopter. Later no police reports or newspaper accounts indicated a fire, and KOME said that a relay went bad (Kaysing 2002:74, 81).

• Kaysing got a phone call from a woman in Portland, Oregon who said that she met a hooker in Reno, Nevada in 1970 who told her that two NASA engineers had told her that the moon trips were a hoax. Kaysing contacted the hooker in February 1976 and she denied knowing anything about the engineers or a hoax. Afterward, two police questioned Kaysing, saying that he had threatened her (Kaysing 2002:74).

• In 1975, Kaysing was on the NBC's The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. On December 10, 1975 NBC wrote him a thank-you letter and said that they "received a great deal of mail" about his appearance, and they forwarded one of those to him. Kaysing wonders why only one such letter was forwarded (Kaysing 2002:78).

• Kaysing had a contract with Price Stern Sloan Publishers to publish his book, and they paid him a small advance. After receiving the manuscript, they wrote back:

  I'm afraid we disavow it. You need to read it objectively and critically and perhaps ORGANIZE IT. As it is it wanders all over the landscape. Several interesting paragraphs but they don't hold together, link together. You've also wandered from third to first person. It needs a lot of work. You don't really have a manuscript here - seemed more like random notes about what you WOULD write about if you got around to it. What I mean, it reads like notes to the AUTHOR. December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... KOME was a radio station in San Jose, California. ... NBC (an abbreviation for National Broadcasting Company, its former corporate name) is an American television network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center and is shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Tom Snyder, host of CBS The Late Late Show A news presenter for WNBC-TV of New York City and KNBC of Los Angeles in the 1970s, Tom Snyder (born May 12, 1936 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was raised Roman Catholic, graduated from Marquette University High School, and gained national fame... December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Price Stern Sloan (originally known as Price/Stern/Sloan) or PSS! is a publisher (now an imprint of the Penguin Group) that was founded in Los Angeles in the early 1960s to publish the Mad Libs that Roger Price and Leonard Stern had concocted during their stint as writers for...

  Kaysing wonders why the publisher didn't want to have anything more to do with the book (Kaysing 2002:74, 85).

Books by Kaysing

Kaysing is the author of many books, including:

• We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle
• Eat Well for 99 Cents a Meal
• The Senior Citizen's Survival Manual
• The 99 Cent a Meal Cookbook
• Great Hot Springs of the West
• Bill Kaysing's Freedom Encyclopedia
• Privacy: How to Get it, How to Enjoy It
• The Ex-urbanite's Complete & Illustrated Easy-does-it First-time Farmer's Guide
• Great Hideouts of the West: An Idea Book for Living Free
• Fell's Beginner's Guide to Motorcycling
• Eat Well on a Dollar a Day

and others.

See also

• Apollo moon landing hoax accusations

Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong in NASAs training mockup of the Moon and lander module. ...

Notes

References

•   Kaysing, Bill (2002). We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle. Health Research Books. ISBN 0-7873-0487-5.

•   Plait, Philip (2002). ''Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misues Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax". John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-40976-6.

• Conspiracy Theory Did We Land on the Moon (2001) (TV) at the Internet Movie Database.

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External links

• A 1996 Radio Interview
• Bill Kaysing debunked
• Bill Kaysing Tribute website
• Wired News The Wrong Stuff
• Health Research Books Publisher of We Never Went to the Moon
• Moon Movie