There are two open issues:
- how was the space travel hoax manufactured;
- what was the ultimate goal.

The second issue has just been answered.
Put yourself in the place of the Illuminati as they launched Copernicus. What was their major problem? Correct, the moon was.
The first thing required by the mother of all hoaxes, heliocentrism, was not a hoax of the stellar parallax type. It was the moon hoax, aka TIDAL LOCKING.

The hoax at the very bottom of the pyramid of lies.