You might say, there is no hoax. Or, rather, The hoax is a hoax to get some attention from the public. It's sad to watch so many here try to take up the astronauts' cause and fight a hoax due to the "victim status" of NASA. You're being HAD.
It all comes down to Life After the Mission for these little banty pilots with the big elbows. Trouble is, they don't have much, (life, that is) so they specialize in being the Professional Former Astronaut. They give speeches, mostly, promoting themselves and charging admission. Woe to the jockey who stutters. They start Space Explorer-type non-profits that basically give awards dinners to former astronauts. Then *those* former astronauts form non-profits and return the favor.
Some of these speeches are rather boring, and a recent trend is the "heckler" who gets enough of the Big Ego talking and becomes rude and asks silly questions. The astronaut, so used to the adulation of the sixties and seventies when aviation contractors bought them Corvettes, then gets all upset and feeds the ego of the heckler. The heckling becomes far more entertaining than the speech, and other hecklers are attracted to the fun. Then the astronaut runs around crying that there's a conspiracy out there to disrespect the Saints of Apollo. Cut to present.
The legacy will survive without these herculean efforts to prove what is patently true. No reasonable person believes the hoax.
Oh aye. But the sheer number of unreasonable people out there is stunning.
You're being HAD.
I'm not sure what you meant by that. I haven't bought anything and don't care about this issue that much. I find it amusing- that's about all. Why do you think I'm being had? Actually, skip it. I'm not overly interested in that either...
Whatever you say... I've been had. That's fine. You're 110% correct.