[Burkeman1]

Nothing would convince them- these are clinacally sick people. It ain't about empircal evidence at all. Belief that the lunar landings were staged is a fanatical cult like belief impervious to facts and reality.

[geopyg]

I love conspiracy theories! Most (all) of them probably aren't true, but they are still interesting. Awhile back I saw one of the shows on the moon landings being faked. Some of the show's evidence (lighting, shadows, etc.) seem plausible (at least on the face of it). However, there's no way they could fake the landings with thousands of people involved.

So - perhaps there are some fake photos mixed in with the real ones. The original pupose of the program was to beat the Russians, to prove American superiority. Getting a nice crisp picture of an American flag, or of a lunar lander with an American flag on it was the main point of the first landing. The ones they shot up there may have not been all that great, so they filled in with a few fakes. (What do you mean you forgot to take the lens cap off?)

Lots of photos are staged. (I heard this election some Republican drove 200 miles to get on Air Force 1 so he could land in his hometown with the Prez! Not exactly fake, but you get the idea.) And what about the old cold war bunker with the replica of the Oval Office for speeches in times of trouble? So I think there's a possibility that there are some fake photos, which NASA would obviously want kept secret.