I've been to the Houston control center for the moon landing and I can tell you: we didn't go. It was a Gov sponsored mirage.

The viewing room of mission control is Disney Land circa 1960s. The space lander is tinfoil around aluminum beams. The entire religion falls apart under any amount of inspection.

What other technology from the 60s hasn't become more affordable (in real terms) and more advance? Why was all the telemetry data from the moon landing, which could be analyzed by scientists and AI today, "lost"? And the questions go on and on.

This is not complex: the NASA/Gov op looks fake because it was television. A great cold war drama designed and executed for our benefit.

We've never left low orbit.