Well guys for every point you make to prove the moon landing was a hoax, there is conflicting proof that it was a real event. So instead of going back and forth here, let’s all meet up here next year. By then the Japanese spacecraft, SELENE, will have begun its one year mission of orbiting and mapping the moon in preparation for eventual manned landing on the moon by Japan. Japan has a thirty year plan for permanent manned presence on the moon. Then I guess we’ll all know if it was a fake or not. As to the most commonly asked question: “How come we never went back?” It’s really pretty simple; there was no political will, and no real scientific reason why we should go back. We had finished what we had to do there, and were getting ready to move on to the “Space Truck”, the shuttle. If you remember by the mid seventies congress was hitting NASA pretty hard about spending all that dough, and what were we getting from manned space flight and blah, blah, blah, so NASA redefined it’s mission and off we went to near earth orbit with the shuttle and now the ISS. Kinda boring in comparison, but the good news is DS1 is an unqualified success, so the ION drive testing continues, once that’s finished it’s off to Mars! No, for real this time! LOL