Moon landing hoax

ultimately what is the point of returning to the moon ?

There are no known life forms discovered there. There have been multiple missions over decades, manned and unmanned. Parts of the moon were recovered and brought back to earth. Soil column samples were extracted through drilling, yet no signs of any life.

I'll try

We've had thousands of successful rocket launches. So why are SpaceX failing to get their new rocket up so many times? Because it's a private company building a new rocket. It's highly complex stuff and they are learning as they go.

Likewise with new countries and private companies landing probes on planets. They are testing and launching their own tech. Sometimes successful, sometimes partially successful or unsuccessful.

Remember Russia launching many moon missions in the 60's and 70's, competing with the US, so why did they stop trying to go the moon? Mainly because they lost the will to go after they lost the space race, ergo the funding wasn't really there anymore. If they tried to do it now, I'm sure they could get there, but it would still be massively expensive to re-develop everything for modern systems, rebuild all the infrastructure, rehire, retrain, make it safer, so much so that they probably wouldn't get the funding required.

Can Russia go to the moon if they really wanted? Probably

Could they be bothered with the expense of it all? Unlikely

It's not some conspiracy, it's just logistics, will and funding.

There's definitely a benefit of using the moon as a route for launching journeys into solar system. Low gravity just makes it more optimal and imagine there's an array of other reasons.

My favourite theory is that they hired Stanley Kubrick to film the fake moon footage. Being such a perfectionist he insisted on shooting on location.

It was sound of the Soviet Union to stay schtum about the fake moon landings. Sound bunch of lads

it is a hoax but not for any reasons listed here.

The moon doesn’t even exist.

Finally we have someone willing to speak the truth.

I'd say it would have been stronger than a chest xray in fairness.

Don't know . I heard someone say Apollo would have needed 6 feet of lead and with that weight the Saturn wouldn't have lifted it. I don't know if that's right, but I'd say Apollo got more than an x ray.

How would such black mail work exactly? And why just the Soviets? Why not any country with a receiving antenna?That's the major plot hole in the conspiracy theory and maybe there was black mail isn't a good rebuttal. Think about it. America did everything possible to get caught hoaxing it. Think Apollo 15. They would be on the surface for almost 3 days. Everyone knew where they intended to land. Anyone could find out what trajectory would be used, when the launch was to happen, when burns were to take place etc. Anyone remotely interested in the engineering could find out what frequencies would be used for telecommunication. When the lunar module landed then approximate landing co-ordinates were made public. In short, it was all done in public and doing that if you plan on hoaxing it risks geopolitical humiliation. Knowing all of the above then all you need is line of sight to verify if a signal is stemming from where they claim to be. Pretty ballsy to do all that and expect everyone to keep schtum if you're hoaxing it in a studio. No one exposed it and why? Because the moon landings happened as documented literally down to each second.

The black mail theory never worked. It would have made more sense that the superpowers wanted to stop wasting so much money and resources on the race so they faked the landing and moved on.

I don't buy it though, because simply put they've photographed where they landed on the moon. They can argue it wasn't manned but I don't buy it.

What I'd like to know, in a few hundred or thousand years when we can fully colonise the moon. Will they keep the original launch site as a protected area. Cornered off or isolated in a dome to preserve our first ever manned landing and especially those iconic footprints.