Some 30 years ago, when I was half my present age, I was working a software navigation tool development for the crew of space shuttle STS-51. As a guest of the astronaut core, I was asked to join a dinner party with the crew and Hoot Gibson, lead astronaut at the time. An unexpected guest at dinner turned out to be Charlie Duke, one of the moon walkers. I was pretty much a fly on the wall for most of the conversation but it was still quite an experience to be in the presence of such a legend.
The ignorant comments by some here on this forum are sad. That is all I can say about such ignorant posters, when compared to the giants and heroes who make this country great. Feel free to crawl back under your rock.
I think some of these "moon landing was a hoax" people are not ignorant.
I think some of them are deliberately, willfully, knowingly lying with malice aforethought.
Two claimed "moon rocks" that were tested were shown to have originated on earth, and were therefore, pre-meditated NASA lies. One was a portion of a petrified tree.
I note you didn't address yourself to any of my (or cgbg's) evidence, choosing to rely on a personal anecdote and a similarly person slur against the me. That's your evidence-free MO around here, just as you insultingly responded to cgbg's cogent link in post #24, https://www.aulis.com/investigation.htm that contains much irrefutable evidence that the moon landings were (all) a hoax.
Without solid evidence you simply rely on put downs of others who present sound evidence and reasoning. You've shows your lack of mettle, sir!
I have my own astronaut anecdotes. I rubbed elbows with Jim Lovell on multiple occasions and found no legendary greatness to speak of in the man. Here, from a photo I took at a pilot event:
I showed Armstrong's Apollo 11 boots and that they didn't match his supposed first imprint on the moon. (And no, there was no wardrobe change or "strap-ons.") I showed that no boot print in lunar regolith would cohere as the famous picture "evidenced." I showed that the entire series of "lunar" Hasselblad photos that showed a starless lunar sky were ALL FAKES as none showed any stars while the Chinese mission "somehow" showed the full panoply!
To get humans through the Van Allen Belts safely (for the first time--note Astronot Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D., Ph.D. averred in a post-Apollo interview that he had never even heard of the Van Allen Belts) future Orion missions will rely on very thick shielding, necessary to protect both humans and electronic equipment. It goes without saying Apollo missions had only very sparse tin foil (how apropos!) shielding, as seen in the image above.
Note in the captions below the following two images that NASA admits that astronauts and their vehicles cannot go farther than the ISS (LEO) at this time: