Originally Posted by Shadowborn

The biggest point I've seen made in argument of the moon landing being faked was the "flapping flag" theory. In the famous photograph, the flag is standing away from the flagpole and looks to be flapping in the breeze. Of course, there is no wind on the Moon, so people look at it and say "Fake! Fraud!"

However, the actual story is much more lackluster. Since there is no wind on the Moon, and they wanted an American flag visible, they had to have it suspended on an L-shaped flagpole, or else it would simply hang limp. Unfortunately, the L-extension off the top of the pole would not completely unfold, thus the flag did not completely unfurl, thus giving it the wrinkled look as if it was "flapping."