Even 55 years after Neil Armstrong took the honor of being the first man to set foot on the surface of the Moon, it seems some people still think we've never gone up there. With wild conspiracy theories that Walt Disney faked the Moon landing with Stanley Kubrick directing, a vocal minority continues to claim that all our ventures to the stars are some elaborate plot to hoodwink the general public.
We're not sure why the likes of NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin would fake the many trips to space (including disasters like Challenger and Columbia), but with the recent all-female trip to the stars, the conspiracy theorists are back.
Everyone is talking about Blue Origin's all-female flight, and while the likes of Katy Perry and Gayle King were actually only 'in space' for around four minutes, it's one for the history books.
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Away from controversy about the flight being a 'gluttonous' waste of money and the crew clapping back at these critiques, there are some who genuinely believe it didn't happen at all.
According to some conspiracy theorists, Blue Origin faked the 11-minute flight, with no real evidence about why they think this, other than the fact that they don't think space travel is possible in 2025.
Now, an apparent gaffe from Jeff Bezos is enough to have some shouting that they've got 'definitive proof' the whole thing was staged. As Bezos rushed to the capsule to greet fiancée Lauren Sánchez, he spectacularly took a tumble before opening the door with a specialized tool. Others have picked up on how it looked like the capsule was opened from the inside and then hastily shut its door.
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One clip has gone viral with the caption of 'gotcha', and it seems the conspiracy theorists are latching onto it.
Responding to the video, one skeptic wrote: "I’d say this is the nail in the coffin. FAKE!"
Another added: "This symbolises how gullible the majority of people are and how that gullibility is exploited every day...!"
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Someone else chimed in: "All that money they have, and they couldn't make it look more realistic? 🤦♀️😵💫."
A fourth referred to the situation of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams being up in space for 286 days, concluding: "They never went. This was done to shift the focus from the real astronauts that were saved last month."
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Others clocked that it likely just shows how the landing was staged specifically for the best photo opportunity when they wrote: "They were waiting for everyone to show up for photos, you can even here him say 'you didn’t close it all the way.'
"It’s lame that it wasn’t candid but that’s about the total extent of this being proof."
As well as Perry and King going viral for kissing the ground when they landed, the image of her holding a daisy in the air to honor her daughter seemed like a perfect photo op.
There will always be those who believe we haven't been to space, and months after NASA has to defend its supposedly 'faked' Christmas photos of Williams and Wilmore, non-believers continue looking for a way to promote their wild theories.