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What these pinheads don't get is the hardest part of the whole show was the launch vehicle itself. Saturn V was the most powerful, most complex (>3 million parts) and most expensive machine ever built (to that time). The biggest part of the moon program was the hundreds of baby steps (and dozens of failures) from Von Braun's V2 to the Saturn Rockets. Six million pounds of rocket burning 20 tons of fuel per second to propel a 110,000-lb package to escape velocity. Each first stage engine had to have its own gas turbine engine driving its fuel pumps so the monster F1 rocket engines never had to wait for fuel.

Once NASA had a reliable launch platform, the rest was a doodle. And the tens of thousands of observers who were in Central Florida for the event were eye-witness to its success.

From: https://www.fastcompany.com/90375425/apollo-11-landed-moon-how-you-can-be-sure-sorry-conspiracy

"...If the United States had been faking the Moon landings, one group would not have been in on the conspiracy: The Soviets.

The Soviet Union would have revealed any fraud in the blink of an eye, and not just without hesitation, but with joy and satisfaction.

In fact, the Russians did just the opposite. The Soviet Union was one of the few places on Earth (along with China and North Korea) where ordinary people couldn't watch the landing of Apollo 11 and the Moon walk in real time. It was real enough for the Russians that they didn't let their own people see it.

That's all the proof you need. If the Moon landings had been faked - indeed, if any part of them had been made up, or even exaggerated - the Soviets would have told the world. They were watching. Right to the end, they had their own ambitions to be first to the Moon, in the only way they could muster at that point.

And that's a kind of proof that the conspiracy-meisters cannot wriggle around...."

Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings#Independent_evidence