One of the best videos on YouTube, lays out why moon landing was real, because faking it was actually impossible. We couldn’t make cameras lie yet. It was easier to go to the Moon.
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Agreed. I haven’t yet watched the video, but the Apollo program’s total cost was about $25.4 billion, or around $152 billion in today’s dollars.
As a back-of-the-envelope calculation, even assuming you could do all the tech and other development necessary to fake the moon landing in the same timeline (you could not), faking it credibly would’ve cost something like $5 trillion — which was an entire year of GDP for the US in 1963, inflation-adjusted.
So yes, the moon landing was real because it was far easier and far, far cheaper to just go there than it would’ve been to stage it at that time.