[DavidG]

Originally posted by growltigger:
Personally, I am sure that they did land on the moon back in 1969. The cold war with Russia was still going strong at that time and I am sure the Russians (as well as anyone else with the capability) had telescopes tracking the lander and would have shouted out loud if the Americans had in fact gone for a quick spin round the earth, dicked about with the Van Halen belt (maybe air guitared to "Eruption") and then came home clutching a piece of pumice and saying "oooh, look what we found"

Well I totally agree that the landings were not faked however the Russians could not have traked the lander all the way to the moon via telescopes. One of the arguments used to support a hoax is that no pictures have been taken of the landers still on the moon. The answer is that even the Hubble does not have the power to see an object that small on the moon.