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I've deliberately steered clear of individual hoax theories as quite frankly I wouldn't bother reading them & most of the ones I have read are completely irrelevant & not worth repeating. I still maintain that the only time there would have been any reason to fake anything was during the first Moon landing. I have no doubt that this would have been done if necessary, purely as a last resort & only if it was thought that they could get away with it. I don't know which astronaut had problems keeping his feet or which mission this was but consider this; Someone at NASA was responsible for showing those TV images to the World. There was no CNN camera crew on the Moon waiting to record this unique historical event for the masses so we only saw what they wanted us to see. If any faking was involved it's most likely that this would have been pre-shot film footage & not transmitted live at all so there would be no need to show anything they thought dubious in any way.

I'm amazed that after 6 pages of careful explanation of the same point by Hagar that many of you are still missing the point entirely. It just defies belief.

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Indeed Richie. This is one of those subjects where you either believe or disbelieve & most people feel so strongly about it they're not even prepared to consider any room for doubt. I'm not trying to change anyone's mind on this as I know that would be an impossible task. I'm not even suggesting that the Apollo 11 astronauts did not walk on the Moon & the fact that everyone seems to forget "Buzz" Aldrin proves that coming second is not good enough. All I would hope to do is to get people to admit to themselves that what I'm suggesting would not only have been possible but that it would have been done if it had been considered necessary. Without those TV images nobody would have believed it & there would have always been room for doubt & even more conspiracy theories. If the camera on the Moon lander had malfunctioned just at the wrong moment they would still have shown pictures of Neil Armstrong coming down that ladder & stepping onto the surface of the Moon. I have no doubt whatsoever of that.

Doug isn't saying that moon landings were faked, he is saying that had Apollo 11 failed, then they would have faked a landing. This way the US (I don't say "we" because I don't work for NASA and I've never been to the moon) would still beat the USSR. I can see his point, but it's all hypothetical.

Interestingly enough, Kennedy had a speech prepared just in case something happened to the mission and he had to break the news to the nation.


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P.S I think a faking would be entirely plausible, had the Yanks failed in their original attempt to moon it up.

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At the risk of repeating myself yet again I'm not saying that, nor have I ever doubted the sincerity of Dr Wernher von Braun & his colleagues, accused them of deception or denied them credit for their considerable achievements. I have never suggested that the whole space program was faked which would be preposterous. When you're relying on a single source for evidence of any event there is always room for doubt, even more so when that source is a government agency. Propaganda is a very powerful weapon in the right hands.

Very interesting Jake. Thanks.

what he's saying is that they were all set up to fake a successful moon mission, and some of the stuff they filmed actually made it to the public.