Originally published on skywebsite.com/hollow/realmoonhollowmoon/id19.html (2002-04-20), a page of Dean De Lucia's website; recovered from the Internet Archive.
One piece of evidence, or lack of it, which is commonly brought up is that there were no blast craters below the Lunar Excursion Modules sitting on the surface of the Moon. According to NASA sources, the rocket motor of the LEMs were turned off as little as two meters above the surface of the Moon. In the booklet The First Lunar Landing, put out by the Government Printing Office ( USA ), a similar photo to the one shown above reveals astronaut footprints at the base of the ladder of the Apollo 11 LEM, as well as all about in front.
What if one argues that the LEM landed on flat rock, only covered with a few inches of Lunar soil, and that the blast from the rocket nozzle swept away the layer of soil to reveal a , hard flat surface below? This still doesn't explain why the area at the base of the ladder retained enough soil on it to receive so many impressions of the astronaut's footprints. In such a case, all of the soil should have been swept away, even at the base of the ladder.
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