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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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This is how they describe this section:

"Let's now tackle the most important issue in the entire discussion on the lunar pictures: backlight photography."

So the "most important issue" is a fail for them. And it highlights the problem with the entire documentary: it sounds convincing, until you dig deeper. The film consists of photographers spitballing, saying, "Doesn't look right to me", while ignoring alternative explanations.