If the moon landing was faked, why didn't the Soviets screech about it? There was intense spying both ways during the space race. The moment either side caught wind of possible fraud, they'd immediately sound the alarm and invalidate the alleged "achievement."
This is a good point thats always overlooked, as well as why haven't any of the other countries that have sent orbiters ever called it out (in fact they've all confirmed the landing sites, even our nemesis China!)
Fun fact; Apollo 8 was advanced to a lunar orbit mission in part because intelligence suggested that the Soviets were making credible progress towards a lunar flight themselves. There had been some debate about making 8 a lunar orbit flight or not but it seems the threat of the Soviets beating the US again (manned orbit around the moon) sealed the deal.
The Soviets had launched robotic spacecraft Zond 4 into orbit around the moon and had been relaying signals to it. Some soviet grunt got the funny idea of acting like he was a cosmonaut on board this craft and transmitted a message making it sound like he was riding on board (the message was of course relayed back to one of his pals who got a chukcle out of it.)
Also listening in was the CIA, who at least as the legend goes, believed it was possible the Soviets had sent someone around the moon. In those days the Soviets wouldn't announce anything until
after the mission was completed and a success and even then their program was much more secretive than the US. It also seems that Zond 4 suffered a failure during reentry, and had it been manned its possible the Soviets wouldn't have ever publicly disclosed it during the space race (and many believe the "first man in space" was actually the first to survive his way back to earth.)
NASA agreed to it because the other option for Apollo 8 was going to be another earth orbit test of the spacecraft but the lunar module they'd planned on testing was delayed. So instead they sent the lone command module around the moon. Jim Lovell, of Apollo 13 fame, rode along for that one. Whats interesting is if a similar accident had happened on Apollo 8 instead of 13 (which had the "lifeboat" lunar module that 8 lacked) they'd have surely died since the command module had 15-30 minutes of life support left after the explosion.
You can see the "boilerplate" LEM they sent up with Apollo 8, which offered no actual vehicle they used during the mission. Just a placeholder.
Lots of neat stories buried in the history of the space race. I'm certain the retards lf Indian will never add anything significant to such history. Heck, I don't blame Indians for being a bit envious, it was a fantastic era of progress and possibility that
INDIA WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE THE LIKES OF EVER EVER EVER.
Thank God no street shitters were involved or more people would've died.