Were the Moon landings faked?

MONDAY (July 20) marks the 40th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing and Glasgow Science Centre is celebrating this momentous occasion with a special one-day event to debunk the conspiracy theories surrounding the lunar landings.
40 years ago, millions of people around the world waited with baited breath as three men embarked on an epic journey. Crowded around TVs and radios, people united for the single moment when Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the Moon and heard him utter the words that have travelled through space and time to the present day: “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. But did man land on the Moon on the 20th of July 1969?
For decades there have been conspiracy theories suggesting that some or all elements of the Apollo 11 mission were faked by NASA. Several motives for the hoax include: America’s determination to beat Russia in the Space Race, to provide the American public a distraction from the growing Vietnam War or to fulfil the promise made by John F Kennedy that a man would land on the Moon before the end of the decade.