Plus, isn’t there something to amateur radio dudes pointing their equipment at the moon and getting a signal? I forget the deets, but the main point was that at least we sent SOMETHING to the moon, the direction of the origin of the signal can not be faked.
I will say now what I said then to my wife’s grandparents who believed without a doubt that we didn’t go to the moon. The Russians tracked us all the way to the moon. They had that capability. They would have called hoax so loud that the world would have known we didn’t go. Because the Russians didn’t deny it, it was true. We sent something to the moon, and it contained human astronauts!