Clips from two conversations with Aldrin that seem to show him acknowledging that America never visited the moon have surfaced as the US commemorates the milestone.

When Aldrin appeared on the Conan O’Brien Show in 2000, the crowd was taken aback when the host recalled seeing the moon landing when he was a youngster.

“No, you didn’t,” Aldrin snapped. “There wasn’t any television, there wasn’t anyone taking a picture. You watched an animation.”

O’Brien was rendered dumbfounded by the awkward interaction, which has since received millions of views on the internet.

Then, in 2015, an eight-year-old girl asked the former astronaut why no one has returned to the moon. Aldrin replied: “Because we didn’t go there, and that’s the way it happened.”

NASA has consistently maintained that