A rather considerable amount of people – one in four Britons – think that the Moon landing 40 years ago was a hoax.

But unfortunately there are even bigger idiots among those 1009 surveyed by the E&T magazine. For example, eleven people of those think that Buzz Lightyear was the first person on the Moon, the Telegraph reports. And eight of those think that the late jazz musician Louis Armstrong made the first moon walk.

Not quite three quarters correctly answered that Neil Armstrong took the first step onto the Moon, the report says.

Eleven per cent of people polled thought the Apollo programme was a recent as the 1980s, with just 68 per cent knowing that the first moon landing took place in 1969.

“If one in four Britons today don’t believe the moon landings ever happened, then I’m afraid that says a lot about one in four Britons. And what it says isn’t very complimentary,” leading space scientist Professor John Zarnecki from the Open University told the newspaper.

Veteran astronomer Sir Patrick Moore said about those who believe the moon landings were a hoax: “If ignorance is bliss, they must be very happy.”

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