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NASA's 1969 Moon landing story after claiming Neil Armstrong's iconic footprint does not match the sole of his lunar boots.
On July 20, 1969, Mr Armstrong took a small step for man and firmly planted his feet in the gray, dusty surface of the Moon.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and the footprints will remain on the wind Moon for millions of years.
The monumental Apollo 11 achievement marked a new age in human exploration NASA of foul play.
Neil Armstrong's spacesuit taken in 2016, NASA's Moon landing.
The photographer taken by astronomer Phil Plait in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum shows Mr Armstrong's historic spacesuit from the Apollo 11 mission.
Eagle-eyed conspiracists were quick to point out the soles on the spacesuit's boots are flat an smooth without any grooves.
The footprint left behind on the Moon, however, shows an imprint of a sole with thick perpendicular treads.
YouTube conspiracy channel ParaBreakdown said: "The bottoms of these boots do not match all the famous print left on the Moon's surface.
When the two astronauts explored the surface of the Moon and collected rock samples for transport back to Earth, Mr Aldrin
As he hopped around in the low-gravity environment the astronaut took a number of photographs of his footprints.
The second piece of the puzzle debunking the conspiracy is the actual gear both astronauts wore to the Moon.
A breakdown of the astronauts' spacesuits shows they are wearing a kind of protective overshoe on top of their boots.
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These overshoes are much thicker and larger and feature pronounced treads like the ones in the photo footprint.
A single photo of Mr Armstrong's feet on the moon shows him wearing these exact overboots on top of his spacesuit.
A plate from the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Texas, reads: "Overshoe, Lunar – Left, Training.
"This overshoe was used on the Moon, called the A7LB Space Suit.
"The shoe provides extra protection from rips, tears, and dust to the basic space suit.
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"These overshoes left the distinctive footprints, which are still on the Moon to this day."
After the success of the Apollo 11 mission, the NASA astronauts set the six more times.
Apollo 17 was the final moon-bound mission, which hit the moon in 1972.
Mr Armstrong died on August 25, 2012, at the age of 82.
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