A few years ago, I would have considered it ridiculous to assume the moon landings were faked, now I have some doubts.
Kennedy ( I think) made the goal of doing it by the end of the decade. Miraculously it was accomplished, just in time !
Wouldn't there be a lot of pressure to do it, after billions were spent on it ?
This also at a time when the US was fighting an unpopular war in Vietnam for no reason. Pulling off the moon landing might serve to take some pressure off of that issue.
I doubt the technology existed at a time when cars barely had seatbelts in them. Even now, the space shuttle often crashes, but going to the moon six times was doable ?
I'd like to see these geezer astronauts take a lie detector test.
If the USSR was so close to doing it, why didn't they ever do it ?
Could a telescope ( Hubble, maybe) see the lunar rover left behind ? Seems to me a super telescope might be able to capture it ?
There would be reasons to fake it, if it was impossible to do. Gov't would look bad wasting all that money for nothing.
I have my doubts about it.
Nixon was President at the time, would he lie ?