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In short, those are just some of the details in the background of the Moon landings, a historical event that I have never questioned. I have been studying aerospace history for a while, following the lunar missions and subsequent projects (for example, Skylab, the Space Shuttle, Viking, Voyager) and after the end of the Cold War, I was happy to learn more about the Soviet program. But now people ask me whether any of it even happened! And if I say that it did, they ask me to prove it.
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Strictly speaking, verifications in science are impossible, and theories can only be proven as well as possible through repeated experiments. There is no 100% certainty. A single counter-proof, however, and the theory is invalid. You can only prove theories wrong. For this reason, Einstein’s theory of relativity is regularly tested with experiments in order to refute it, even if hardly any other scientist doubts this theory. If in the above example, the ball ever goes up instead of falling, my hypothesis is proven wrong.
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Eversberg, T. (2019). Proof I: The Dilemma. In: The Moon Hoax?. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05460-1_3
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