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Personally I find the idea that it was all a hoax to be completely and utterly ridiculous, put about by people who lack the technical knowledge to understand how it was done and the imagination to see what a fantastic achievement it was. Little people with nothing better to do than belittle the achievements of others.

Leaving aside the fact that pulling off a hoax on that scale would have been about a thousand times more difficult than actually going to the moon, not to mention a great deal more expensive, there is also the little matter of radar. The apollo spacecraft were tracked all the way from launch to touch down on the surface by every country in the world with the technological capability to do so. This included both the USSR and China. As this all happened at the height of the cold war I think they might have mentioned it if they couldn't pick up the spacecraft on their radar.

Dave P.