ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses conspiracy theories about space, such as the claims that the Earth is actually flat (although we are deceived into believing otherwise), that the Moon landings were faked, and that space exploration is merely a cover that aims to hide the fact that there are secret bases in the nearby orbs. A popular understanding of aerospace conspiracy theories suggests that they are somehow epistemically special, that is, particularly weird or exceptionally interesting. However, it will be argued that, epistemically speaking, conspiracy theories about space do not differ from those relating to other phenomena. The chapter criticizes the specialty thesis, that is, that aerospace conspiracy theories are special in the sense that their epistemic status, as a class, differs from that of other conspiracy theories. The arguments discussed in this chapter do not support this thesis.
