Moon Landing: Fake or Real?

[LostLocke]

American Congress doesn't do "buggered". Again, you *must* plan ahead for failure in the event you cannot broadcast the actual landing.

How hard could it be to set up a lunar stage in a warehouse for black and white televisions?



Awkward... but not impossible?

A civilian, at least a semi-educated one in astronomy even in those days, would likely have known that was a fake.
The Soviet scientists would have had zero issue realizing that was fake.
Remember, they wouldn't just be faking it for Joe Blow American citizen, they'd be faking it for the whole world, including those educated in astronomy.

On a side note, that pic is from 1950. By 1969 we had learned a lot more about the moon.
The ideas of the moon that you see in those cheesy 40s and 50s sci-fi films that Mike/Joel and the Bots riffed on, were outdated by the time we got to the moon in 69.