Moon Landing: Fake or Real?

[Cyberman]

The problem with the movie set idea, and it really is a biggie, is that all the footage would have to be filmed at one-sixth Earth normal gravity, on a set so large it would be impossible to light with anything other than multiple sources not evident in any of the footage, in a vacuum chamber bigger than anything technologically possible (then or now) so as to accomodate the set. Not to mention the effects footage of the CSM cameras in lunar orbit and the LM performing its manoeuvres. Add to that the necessity of actually launching a vehicle at the Moon for all the astronomers across the globe to track and from which to bounce radio and telemetry signals in order to create the illusion of a manned spaceflight, then ferrying the astronauts to this returning vehicle before re-entry to simulate a splashdown. I'm not even going to go into the problems with the private contractors who built the vehicles, all of whom would have to be convinced they were designing and building an actual spacecraft capable of making the trip, or all the mission control staff who would have to be convinced they were actually running a Moonshot.

Basically it would have been easier to go to the Moon.