A persistent Moon Landing Hoax sub-theory claims that director Stanley Kubrick filmed fake Apollo mission footage on a soundstage — often citing his 1968 film *2001: A Space Odyssey* as proof of his technical capability. Multiple independent lines of evidence refute the claim. The sustained low-gravity movement shown in Apollo footage (1/6 g for hours at a time) was technically impossible to simulate with 1960s film technology; *2001* itself used techniques that would have been immediately identifiable if applied to Apollo footage. The Soviet Union, tracking the missions and with every incentive to expose a fake, confirmed the missions. The Apollo program returned 842 lbs of lunar samples distributed to international labs. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs from 2009 onward show Apollo landing sites with hardware and tracks still visible.