The people in the video suggest it. Not just for now but since always (in terms of getting people past low earth orbit)
As I said, if these comments were ripped out of context, I'd like to see the full interview. I just can't imagine a context where people would talk like that if we have done something as awesome as land on the moon and come back
But where is the real evidence that the Apollo missions were faked?
The
thermosphere argument has absolutely no merit - there is virtually nothing in the
thermosphere to transfer any heat into a spacecraft.
The
Van Allen belt claims fall flat,
James Van Allen himself said so and all the objective evidence agrees with that assessment.
All the so-called faked photographic evidence I have seen has been debunked or is an
admitted hoax played against the
lunar landing deniers. And some still fall for them.
Yes, they could have simulated most of it and they did! They simulated as much as possible on earth as a test-bed and for rehearsal.
Dutchy claims it all went too perfectly to be possible. It went off as well as it did because of all this testing and rehearsal.
Why was the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7 on Oct. 11, 1968? It's a long story, but it boiled to there being so many unmanned test flights.
But I doubt that they could have simulated the continuous live broadcast, especially as the signal seen in Sydney, Australia, came mainly from Honey Suckle Creek then from Parkes, and not via the NASA control centre.
So many of the denier's claims fall flat when confronted by the facts.
Subjective claims at this late date from short extracts of what people said don't mean much.
Sure
Don Pettit would love to go to the moon and there are radiation hazards in and past the Van Allen Belts to be overcome.
Those hazards were overcome satisfactorily for short duration missions where the trans lunar injection could be arranged to avoid much of the radiation.
But this may not be sufficient for longer missions, especially with modern high performance electronics that is also more susceptible to radiation damage.
Still some people so love their conspiracies that they'll go to any lengths to prop them up - even accusing many thousands of others of lying.