Quote Originally Posted by Emerald Aeris
Of course we did, even excluding all the points raised here, we would know by now just from the pictures. There's NO way that way back then they'd be able to mimic/doctor the pictures.
Ah, but that's the point. The didn't doctor the pictures. They faked the landing. My theory's simple: they prepped their dozenth or so launch, sent it up, found they lost their chance to land on the moon, broke out the contingency fake, sent it from the shuttle itself, and played that off as the landing itself, then drifted a while before going back to earth. They wanted to land, they tried to land, they couldn't land, they faked the landing. Hence, the launch itself was definately real. Also, they'd probably dumb the landing module towards the sun itself. Burn, baby, burn.