The whole 'Von Braun in Antactica to collect moon rocks' is one of the most bizarre of all of the HB claims (and that is really saying something!).
Let's look at the logic here. You need a whole lot of meteorites because you are going to fake a lunar landing (beg your pardon, 6 lunar landings) and you need to be able to supply expectant geologists with output. Nearly a tonne of it, because if you're going to start a conspiracy, you may as well go the whole 10 yards.
Now, rather than come up with a reasonably plausible cover story as to why you
can't supply them (fear of unidentifiable, possibly biological. contaminants; radiation levels too high to safely transport back to Earth in the CM with the crew, etc, etc), they send THE most identifiable face associated with the entire space programme to Antarctica to collect rocks (which even if they ARE lunar in origin, are going to have difficult-to-explain weathering and evidence of atmospheric entry) ... hey, and why not then take a whole bunch of holiday snapshots to commemorate the subterfuge? Oh, and will we send a geologist [say, Jack Schmitt who must already be in on the big secret], who may actually know a lunar rock from a lump of sandstone? No, tell you what, let's send a rocket engineer! I mean, they're all scientists, right???
Stupid, stupid, stupid people!!
