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I'm not sure where the skepticism for moon landings comes from, given the fact that the Soviets had the means (via a variety of mechanisms, from technical to HU

I'm not sure where the skepticism for moon landings comes from, given the fact that the Soviets had the means (via a variety of mechanisms, from technical to HUMINT) to know if we faked it. They would have every motivation to "out" us in a UN session with Cuban-Missile-Crisis-like imagery. A conspiracy between the powers to allow numerous US moon landings and returns to be faked while the Soviet program failed is beyond belief.

mywittyname 3y ago
Especially considering the USA didn't land humans on the moon just once, it did so six times over the course of three years. Twelve humans have walked on the moon. It happened so often that public got bored of it and so funding for future missions was withdrawn. Now we've largely forgotten this fact. It always astonishes me that people speak of THE moon landing, as though it only happened once. One of the greatest achievements of humanity and we undersell it. It would be like Ancient Egyptians thinking there was only one pyramid.