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There is one solid way to know for sure: Our LEM module left behind it's landing gear, several of them, and a decent telescope should be able to see that. A really good telescope should see that, the flag, and footprints.

I'm all for going and checking, though more than a good telescope is needed - that photo you posted was actually from a moon orbiter. And I'm not a bleiever in those "tracks," because... sceptic and stuff, right? Though I will note that they've always somehow had an excuse for not pointing Hubble at the moon.

Personally, I think we DID go to the moon, and got photos and instrument readings, etc. I just no longer think we sent PEOPLE to the moon - I think it was remote equipment. I think the Van Allen radiation belts simply were not crossable with the technology we had, or even still have, and I also think the radiation of open space and on the lunar surface were prohibitive as well.

I also think there's some sort of problem with the moon "they" aren't talking about. All this talk about Mars is ridiculous. If the moon is unapproachable, so is Mars. Otherwise, let's just send unmanned diggers to the moon, let them dig, and send shielded landing capsules with people in them to live under the surface. It's a problem, but it's not magic - it's a scientific and engineering problem I simply do not believe that we can't somehow triumph over.

Yet here we are, fifty years later, farting around in low Earth orbit while relying on the Russians - the RUSSIANS - for our access to the ISS!

It's humiliating and it pisses me off. The moon is RIGHT THERE, dammit!