The latest launch of an American rocket to the moon has a former University of Alabama quarterback peddling the conspiracy that the lunar landings were faked.
The crew on the Artemis II is in the midst of a 10-day flight to orbit the moon before returning to Earth.
While it’s the first lunar mission for the United States in many years, it will not result in a moon landing – something that ESPN college football analyst and former Crimson Tide quarterback Greg McElroy believes humanity has never done.
During an appearance on his radio show ‘McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning,’ the ex-New York Jets quarterback said off-hand that ‘we’re going to the moon for the first time in human history.’
It caught his co-host, Cole Cubelic, and the rest of the studio off guard. Part of that is because, again, Artemis II is not landing on the moon. Additionally, there have been several successfully recorded lunar landings in human history by multiple countries.
A stunned Cubelic asked, ‘Do you honestly believe we’ve never been to the moon?’
Former Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy believes humans haven’t gone to the moon
McElroy, who works for ESPN as a college football analyst, maintains that technology would not have allowed for humans to launch and land on the moon in 1969
McElroy doubled down: ‘I honestly believe we never went to the moon.’
He then tripled down after everyone else in the studio disagreed and believed we had gone to the moon.
‘There is a zero percent chance we went to the moon,’ McElroy maintained. ‘Zero. Total, genuine propaganda.’
He then went on to explain that there was no possible way the Apollo 11 moon landing was real, because certain technologies hadn’t been developed yet.
‘All I’m saying is that we didn’t go to the moon in 1969,’ McElroy said. ‘We didn’t have microwaves, but we can go to the moon? We didn’t have color television.
‘It has to do with technology. All of a sudden, we’re going to travel deep, deep, deep into space … The sitting American presidents of the time are not exactly known for being 100 percent honest.’
The United States is the only nation to have men walk on the moon, doing so on six crewed landings between 1969 and 1972.
‘To some extent, debating this subject is an insult to the thousands who worked for years to accomplish the most amazing feats of exploration in history,’ one NASA official said of moon landing conspiracy theories. ‘And it certainly is an insult to the memory of those who have given their lives for the exploration of space.