Quote Originally Posted by udsuna
Yet, they communicated to the earth from that impossible-to-see position (you couldn't do that today). No line-of-sight means no radio communications. Even if the film itself was "real" even if the landing was "real"- there was no way for us to have done it live. Not without some magical radio waves that could travel through hundreds of miles of solid earth.
What makes you think that the Mare Tranquillitatis (the location of the first landing) was not in line-of-sight with Earth?