Scientist Explains How Computer Glitch Proves NASA’s Moon Landing Wasn’t Faked

A scientist who previously worked with NASA revealed a crucial detail that proves that the agency’s first human mission to the Moon actually happened. According to the scientists, a computer glitch that occurred during the mission confirmed that the lunar landing was not faked.

Apollo 11 has been regarded as a historical mission because it was the first to land humans on the Moon. However, despite the number of reports authenticating the details of the mission, many conspiracy theorists still believe that NASA faked the entire event.

Recently, computer scientist Paul Sakakeeny revealed an important detail that confirms the truth about Apollo 11. During the 1960s, Sakakeeny worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His main task was handling the operating system used by NASA for the Apollo 11 mission, which was launched in 1969.

One of the system’s functions was creating Apollo 11’s navigation plan using a simulation program. According to Sakakeeny, the system encountered a glitch that remained undetected until the Apollo 11 lander arrived on the Moon.

“The simulator contained a serious bug which was not apparent until the actual lunar lander touchdown,” he told Express. The simulation, when adjusted with the real flight data, attempted to land three feet into the Moon's surface, crashing the lander.”

Although the effects of the glitch were detected during the mission, the bug that caused the technical issue was not found until the year 2000, when the turn of the millennium exposed the various errors that affected computers during the last decade.

As noted by Sakakeeny, the issue was caused by a date routine error that failed to take into account the leap days. According to the computer scientist, if the Apollo 11 mission did not actually happen, the simulation program would have produced the erroneous landing result that Sakakeeny and his colleagues witnessed.

“A fake landing would not have produced this,” he said. “One could say this proves the landing was fake because the wrong data fed to the simulator containing an error and if a real landing had occurred the simulator would work. Except, despite the best efforts of [International Business Machines] and MIT the bug was never found, until the year 2000.”