
“Abandoning the traditional paths of ‘common sense,’ we have plunged into what may at first sight seem to be unbridled and irresponsible fantasy,” they wrote. Since the two men (Mikhail Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov) were legitimate scientists, they opted to tread lightly as they stepped out onto such unstable grounds. Much later, a far more entertaining notion, that our moon is hollow and actually a lunar spaceship created by a distant alien civilization, was put forward in 1970 by two Soviet scientists. Wells, who wrote about it in his 1901 book, The First Men In The Moon. The first person to suggest that the moon is hollow was sci-fi writer H.G. It’s appropriately (obviously?) called the Hollow Moon Theory, or the Spaceship Moon Theory. They think that the moon is actually an alien spaceship. And not only that, they believe the moon was intentionally hollowed out by aliens who brought our moon to the Earth’s orbit and placed it into position.

There are many, many people who believe that the moon is hollow. But that’s nothing compared to a far stranger lunar theory. There’s one popular theory that Stanley Kubrick created the elaborate hoax for NASA. They firmly believe that the moon landing was faked. Now, of course, there are those who believe this never happened.


Long had we stared up at the glowing body in the night sky, and now, we’d crossed an ocean of inky black space and made physical contact. Or in his words, he took “one small step for man… and one giant leap for mankind,” as he let his boots sink into the soft terra firma of the moon.

As you no doubt heard many times over the last few months, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong did what no human before him had ever done - he set foot on an extraterrestrial world.
