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The moon landings were single-staged!
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I looked into this a long time ago, it would've been more expensive to fake it than it was to just do it.
We would've needed to somehow convince Russia to lie on our behalf. We would've needed to convince the dictatorship of australia to also lie on our behalf.
The rooskies came out and said we beat them to it, and the aussies claimed they recived the camera feed and the audio feed from space and then echoed it to their TV network
Landing on the moon was such a huge PR event. Everything that could be controlled was controlled.
What if a backup TV broadcast was created in case of broadcast equipment failure?