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Originally Posted by BenGun
When I asked him about the Russions he shrugged it off. They were much to embarrassed (when it turned out that the technology of the sixties was incapable to deliver) to admit that they failed to realise in time that the moon landing was an unachievable goal. Questioning the landing would have amounted to an also-ran.
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Hi and welcome, BenGun.
If the Apollo CSM spacecraft had stayed in low Earth orbit it would have been a very visible naked-eye object. Ask your friend why nobody noticed it in the ten days or so it was supposedly there.
Ask him how geologists from around the world never questioned the authenticity of the lunar samples. Are they all so foolish as to fail to recognize the "unusual rocks" for what they were? Or are they all in on the hoax? Remind him that many of these geologists are NOT from the United States.
As for the Russians, well, I have to assume your friend is rather young. No one who was alive at the time would suggest the Soviets would have passed up the chance of exposing a hoax. And they would have detected it easily, as would anyone with the technical capacity to track the flights. Even amateurs in the US did that!
Finally, why would the hoaxers have repeated the hoax six times (and hoaxed one failure to boot)? The chances of its being detected would grow exponentially but there was nothing to be gained from repeated fake landings.