I grew up around the Johnson Space Center, I’ve known many astronauts and dozens of engineers who worked on Gemini, Apollo and the Space shuttle. I knew Kris Kraft who was instrumental in pushing me towards computers. It would simple be impossible to hoax the moon landings with these folks.
I’m personal friends with Charlie Duke. Charlie, like a lot of the guys of his generation simply was not built to be involved in anything shady.
For many years I went to the Outpost Tavern prior to it burning down and it was full of NASA engineers. None ever intimated that the moon landing was a hoax and I’ve been around those folks when they were pretty intoxicated. Today, you can go to places like Carlos’s Beer Garden outside of Houston and you can still run in to retired NASA engineers who were involved in getting the US to the moon. In all my years of being around such people the only comment they will make about “The Moon Landing Hoax” is very loud laughter.
I also met a number of Russians involved with NASA and none have ever questioned that the US went to the moon.
I collect rocks and minerals, I have seen moon rocks first hand and there is no way they are from the Earth nor could they have been manufactured in some way or faked.
That’s impressive testimony, but nothing anyone can say will ever convince the person you addressed it to!
Very cool that you’re friends with Charlie Duke, the man who was on the other end of the comms link hearing the words “Houston, Tranquillity Base here — the Eagle has landed”.
“I grew up around the Johnson Space Center, I’ve known many astronauts and dozens of engineers who worked on Gemini, Apollo and the Space shuttle.”
You would have to explain their exact involvement in those moon landing “projects”. Anyone remotely close to an unbelievably spectacular event like that is likely to overstate their involvement. In reality, someone could work for NASA their entire lives without ever being involved in any meaningful way with the so called moon landing.