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The rise in the popularity for faked moon Landings came in the mid 70s early 80s when we were finding out that NASA didn't really have enough footage surrounding the spectical, so many news outlets used anything and everything they could find at the time relating to the landing, this resulted in many promotional images and test images here on earth being retasked to maskarade as real moon images.
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In college I actually did the math on the time it took for the Apollo mission and cross referenced the level of radiation they would've received. Basically came to the conclusion that it would've been cheaper to send people on a rocket to the moon and based on their sickness when they returned home that yeah, they got dosed with mild radiation consistent with being stuck in a tin can in space.
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@Desiderata, I believe the moon landing was real but I don't think cost is a good argument against it, the space race was a major weight on Americans and the Gov had a lot of reason to invest in it so faking it wouldn't have been the craziest thing either. I think the best argument against it being fake was that the Russians never claimed it was fake (as far as I know), and they would've had the most interest in saying it was fake because the moon landing was a major blow to them directly. I'm sure there are better reasons but to me the cost thing just never made sense.
Whenever someone tells me this conspiracy theory I simply counter with, “wait, you believe the moon exists?”