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Bart Sibrel was born on December 15, 1964. His father was an officer in the United States Air Force.[citation needed] According to Sibrel, until the age of 14 he was a big fan of the Apollo program, until he watched an interview with Bill Kaysing on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Charges that the Moon landing was a hoax

Main article: Moon landing conspiracy theories

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. The Rocketdyne scientists whom he worked with told him there was enough technology at the time to perhaps land a manned rocket to the moon, but not enough technology developed to return safely to earth. They also talked about the very real problem of traveling through atmospheric radiation without harming the astronauts--something that needed to be solved. Even before July 1969, he had "a hunch, an intuition, ... a true conviction" and decided that he did not believe that anyone was going to the Moon.
[5] Kaysing wrote a book titled We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle,[6] which was self-published in 1976.[7] The book was republished in 2002 by Health Research Books. In his book, Kaysing introduced arguments which he said proved the Moon landings were faked.

Claims in the book and subsequent sources include:

NASA lacked the technical expertise to put a man on the Moon.
The absence of stars in lunar surface photographs.[8]
Unexplained optical anomalies in the photographs taken on the Moon.[9]
The absence of blast craters beneath the Lunar Modules. He claimed that the rocket engines of the Lunar Modules should have generated an enormous dust cloud near their landing sites the final seconds of descent.[10]
The mysterious death of Thomas Ronald Baron, a quality control and safety inspector for North American Aviation.
The Dutch papers had questions regarding the "authenticity" of the Moon landings.[5]
Kaysing also claimed that NASA staged both the Apollo 1 fire and the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, deliberately murdering the astronauts on board. He suggested 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 there is a high-level conspiracy involving the Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Reserve, Internal Revenue Service and other government agencies to brainwash the American public, poison their food supply and control the media.[11] He also implied that the death of Thomas Baron in a traffic accident with a train a week after he testified before the United States Congress, and the disappearance of his 500-page report on the Apollo 1 fire, was not an accident. He was also a participant in the Fox documentary Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?,[12] which aired on February 15, 2001.