Fox News grills astronaut on moon landing conspiracy theories because “25% of our viewers remain skeptical”
Will Cain: “Points are still made and they’re worth addressing as is always the case”
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From the October 31, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Will Cain Show
WILL CAIN (HOST): I hear your affirmative case and I don’t deny your affirmative case. I don’t come to you today — this is not a debate and I would not even classify myself as a skeptic. But I do know that skeptics remain. 25% of our viewers right now remain skeptical, so I wanted to have you address some of those arguments that are the sources of the skepticism.
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EILEEN COLLINS (GUEST): And by the way, we couldn't have landed on the moon without computers, so we had to have a certain amount of technology. And I’m going to tell you that, you know, I lived through that, I’m very proud of the fact that we had men that were strong, that were risk takers, that were willing to do something that — they went out into an area where there's no air, there's — no one had ever been to the moon before, and now they're taking a tremendous risk to their lives. And years, decades, 50 years later we say didn’t happen? I think that's really an insult to the people that made the Apollo program happen.
CAIN: I totally understand that argument, Eileen, but the point of our conversation is actually to address some of that skepticism and see if it doesn’t hold weight, and the affirmative argument you’re making is one that I find compelling as well. These men were heroes. However, the points — points are still made and they're worth addressing as is always the case in anyone who has a counter argument. It's not the dismissal of the counter argument, it's the response to the counter argument that is powerful.
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One more thing. Stanley Kubrick — this video's gone around for some time. Stanley Kubrick, the noted filmmaker, he has a video out there that he says he was part of this. He says he helped fake the moon landing. What do you say to Stanley Kubrick?
COLLINS: I had not heard about that but I would like to understand why he would say that the moon landing was faked. I mean, Stanley Kubrick, he made several movies on the space program, "2001: A Space Odyssey," space stations, talked a lot about artificial intelligence and a variety of technologies up in space. So I would say that he more than anyone would know we had the technology and the ability to go to the moon.