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Not even the astronauts understand the science behind the rockets they pilot. They’re pilots. Not rocket scientists. But the majority of people understand that scientists know enough about this stuff and that they should defer to their understanding.
Anyway, the moon landing isn’t exactly hard to understand anyway. So most people could understand it. They may not be able to do the calculations, but when someone like Dr. Tyson explains it in laymen’s terms, they can certainly understand it.
And when Nasa contradicts themselves?
https://www.quora.com/How-can-humans-survive-the-Van-Allen-radiation-belts
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/van-allen-probes-spot-impenetrable-barrier-in-space
How does NASA debunk this one? It was a huge media event, they didn't even film the lunar landing from the shuttle.. why?
Why were they faking filming the earth from far away?
Between 1958-1974, NASA had an 85% success rate launching shuttles. Just launching them, this doesn't include the tests. With a success rate that low it's hard to believe that they could.
This is the inside of the lunar lander, supposedly used by Armstrong to manually land on the moon. From my experiences using the lunar lander module at the science center, it's virtually impossible for anyone to land that thing, even in a simulation. Also, look at the controls, seriously, it's like an Atari joystick. Is that even enough room for two fully dressed astronauts to move around in? In their suits they couldn't reach most of the buttons, or move much.
As for it being impossible to keep all the NASA scientists quiet... If they expose the lie (if it is indeed a lie, I can't know for sure) then what, they lose their job, get arrested for exposing state secrets, and possibly get NASA shut down, or hurt it's funding.. No Scientist would ever think that's a good idea.