The only "proof" is below. I think splitting the differnce is likely. The might have done the first one or two, but faked the others. Most of the evidence they were faked comes from later missions. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html I get what youre saying about this piece. Youd save metric fuck tons of money not having to build out life support systems, and the complicated engines needed for manuevers to get to the moon and back, but, its pretty easy to track things that size in space, with radar. The soviets would have had to have been in on the scam.