Yes, we Americans landed on the moon.  More than once.  Why would NASA fake several landings??  Why would NASA fake an entire space program only to produce "fake" photos and related news, etc.??  We lost 3 astronauts in a tragic space capsule fire in January 1967.  Was that faked?  Are all the probes that have been sent to Mars also fake??  I don't think so.  The next time you see an aircraft fly by or even fly in one, remember: "They said it couldn't be done."  Well, "They" were wrong.  We did it more than once, and someone will do it again. . . Mars awaits.  

I would imagine that Hagar is probably right, there probably was a backup plan to fake the landings if it did become neccessary.  Because, there is always a backup plan.

What I would expect it is never went any farther than being known only by a select few if it was infact a backup plan.

At the time of the landings in 1969 (or "suspected" landings  ), we had pretty much known that the Soviets were way behind in the race to put a man on the moon (they had yet to have a successiful test launch on the only rocket they had large enough for the task-and in the end they never did).  So, even if Apollo 11 had failed, it was very unlikely they were going to beat us-we could have taken our time.  But, Kennedy has promised the moon by the end of the decade and that was also an important goal.

I don't think for a second that the landings were faked, I believe that all 6 were real.  I am willing to believe that there was probably some kind of contingency plan to fake it if it was absolutely neccessary though.

There was never a video made during Alexei Leonov's Voskhod 2 spacewalk in March of 1965 (the first space walk).  The Soviet government released a video on Moscow TV of Leonov during spacewalk training and said it was the spacewalk video.  So, I'm not sure how planned that was, but the video of him performing his spacewalk is "faked" because it was actually a film of him training.

One interesting thing about von Braun is he presented two ways to put a man on the moon to NASA.  One was called "Earth-Orbit Rendezvous" in which a bunch of small launches were conducted and they would rendezvous in orbit and assemble a large spacecraft that once completed would be flown to the moon.  His other idea (the one he favored) was called "Direct Accent."  The idea here was simply build a huge rocket with large capsule and fly to the moon.  The capsule would have a module below it with legs and the whole thing would land on the moon.  Then, the whole capsule would lift off and return.  So, no rendezvous was needed during the mission at all.

He believed these were the only ways to successifully and safely get to the moon.  In the end, both of these plans were rejected by NASA in favor of a different plan (Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous-which was what was done during the Apollo program).  So, I wonder if his comments maybe in part due to this.

Check this out-

Covers all the points a proves that the hoax is wrong
and that the americans did land on the moon.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

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I'll do it!  Now, only if I could find someone to send me there...

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Of all the moon hoax theories I have ever read, I think this one is the most valid.  Woody, you have swayed me.   

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I have a good example of where that actually happened. Remember we were discussing Bletchley Park recently? This was a top secret establishment where security was of the utmost national importance. Despite this, 10,000 people from all walks of life & including many young girls, worked there towards the end of WWII. There was not room for them to be based there permanently so many lodged with local people in the surrounding area. Although there was strict security in the establishment itself there was no restriction on any of these people entering or leaving at will providing they had the necessary security screening. If it had become known what was actually done there & the Germans had got word of it the whole thing would have been a complete failure. Not one of these people ever talked about what they did there even to their loved ones & many took their secrets to the grave. The establishment was run on a "need to know" basis so although they knew it was vitally important many of them never knew the complete picture.

Secondly, it's been openly admitted that some of the video footage was not actually what it was supposed to be. This could have been a mistake or intentional but after seeing the first Moon landing shown continually on TV programs for many days afterwards I suspected even then that all was not what it appeared to be. I'm not saying that the whole operation was faked or that Neil Armstrong did not actually walk on the Moon but it's perfectly possible the pictures we saw of him doing it might not have been all they seemed. The Russians had done the same thing with their first space walk several years before as Richie confirmed. Please don't dismiss this out of hand as even today some people take their loyalty to their country seriously enough to keep quiet, for ever if necessary.