“It would have been 100 times more difficult and exspensive to fake a landing that is done well enough to pass the smell test that actually landing on the moon”
BS. You have no way to prove that. And if it’s so much cheaper to go to the moon then why don’t we go back??
IDK the truth of it all, but how did they survive the cooking hot temps of direct exposure to the sun? Or the freezing cold temps of space? Keep in mind that to transfer energy takes energy. Running AC or heating electrically? Not possible for any length of time, with the battery power in 1969. No solar sails were on the capsule. Where did the juice come from?
If you are going to tell me they kept the ship rotating, that is a joke.