There’s a weird little theme starting to bubble up in the mainstream — and no, it’s not just coming from tinfoil-hat corners of the internet anymore. More and more people are asking the unthinkable: Did we really go to the Moon in 1969?
Now, before you roll your eyes, this isn’t coming from your uncle forwarding grainy YouTube videos. We’re talking Elon Musk, the billionaire who launches rockets for a living, and Joe Rogan, who has the most listened-to podcast in the world. These aren’t nobodies — and they’re both subtly, maybe even unintentionally, stoking the flames of Moon skepticism.
Let’s start with Musk. On the All-In Podcast, Jason Calacanis randomly asked Musk, “How about we go to the Moon for real this time?” Musk didn’t laugh, didn’t correct him, didn’t say, “Well, we already did.” Nope. He just rolled with it like it was the most normal thing in the world. That silence was deafening.
Even more telling? Musk recently tweeted (in all caps, no less) that “ACTUALLY going to the Moon is staggeringly difficult.” Really? This is the same guy who talks about colonizing Mars like it’s a casual road trip. But going to the Moon, which is 1/100th the distance to Mars is still somehow “staggeringly difficult”? That doesn’t add up.
With rare exception, ideas really are trivial compared to execution.
For example, the idea of going to the Moon is simple, but ACTUALLY going to the Moon is staggeringly difficult.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2025
Especially when you consider that we allegedly went to the Moon six times between 1969 and 1972. We not only landed there, we drove around in buggies, took selfies, planted flags, and somehow launched back home all with 1960s technology that was less powerful than the calculator app on your iPhone. Richard Nixon even phoned the astronauts from the Oval Office. That’s 238,000 miles away…with 1969 comms tech. Meanwhile, I can’t get a cell signal in my basement.
And don’t forget about the Van Allen radiation belts, highly lethal zones of charged particles that every Apollo mission supposedly just breezed through in tin cans with zero radiation shielding. NASA’s answer? “We didn’t know about them yet.” Seriously?
Even Joe Rogan is asking the right questions: Name one time in human history where technology went backwards. Good luck. It’s never happened — except for this. NASA says they “lost” the tech. How do you lose the schematics for one of the most important achievements in human history?
So here we are in 2025, with billionaires racing to Mars but somehow still no Starbucks on the Moon. Weird, right?
Did we go? I think we’ll always be divided on that one.
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