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They never got around the Van Allen belts. It was too difficult to do it by 1969 but the public had been hyped up so much and our cold war rep was on the line so NASA had to fake it to make it.

They never got around the Van Allen belts. It was too difficult to do it by 1969 but the public had been hyped up so much and our cold war rep was on the line so NASA had to fake it to make it.

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Here's my take: Why is it so hard to believe that we managed to take a bucket of bolts with people inside it, fireproof it, fire it up with some combustion, and send the damn thing to a rock in the sky, in 1969? Doesn't it seem more likely that that is exactly what happened?

I don't think it's necessarily that. I believe we did go to the moon, however what was broadcasted wasn't the actual landing. We don't have the technology to safely return man to the moon now, so what makes you think it was safely possible then? I think it was a one way trip. The van Allen radiation belt would kill any living creature. There was no lead shielding on the Apollo. Would have been far to heavy.

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What's this about not having the tech to safely return? Do you have anything to back that up? Seems to me that it's just expensive and pointless to go there anymore on a manned mission.