What to say when someone asks you “were the Moon landings faked?” 

I personally don't have time for morons.

smears ... modus operandi ?

Did you watch the Last Man on the Moon documentary? It’s really great. :)

This is very true!

OR they were also sick of wasting billions on a project with no hope of success and took the first off ramp available to them?

@@miked3723 Is that a serious question? LOL

Kinda water is sticky so it will be sticking to your insides whilst you are floating

@@Booga-tz8kj how convenient

@@steigerbower There aren’t big empty spaces inside the human body for water to float in.

@thechroniclesofnessworld6584. I'm too lazy to explain to you. Take a Radiation Safety Class like me to find out.

Ok. "They survived the Van Allen belt"

Easy. The radiation levels in the van Allen belts are far lower than the deniers claim they are.

The hard data is available in numerous reports on the NASA Technical Report Server. And in the science data archived in the Planetary Data System. We haven’t been back to the moon yet because Apollo was the most expensive engineering program in history. And once the goal of beating the Russians to the moon was achieved, nobody was willing to spend that kind of money on a mere scientific program, as opposed to a national prestige program as Apollo was. The effect of going to the moon with a smaller budget is seen with Artemis: with 1/25 the annual budget that Apollo enjoyed, it’s taking a bit longer.

@@Hobbes746 did the Space Station !SS cost $150 billion? JFK later regretted his "Send a man to the moon and return him safely speech" stating he wished he had promoted the idea of abolishing world hunger and mass starvation - $300 billion would provide farms and deep water wells for every village on Earth

this was a pretty good back and forth on this issue ... thanks for not using insults nor smears etc.

@@Hobbes746 what "hard data" you talking about? Most important data is telemetry witch NASA said was lost in a fire. Classic Hollywood story. so many journeys to the Moon and... 0 video recording of the journey between Earth and the Moon lol

@@mihaimih4669 At the end of each mission, the data gathered during the mission was reviewed, analyzed, and where necessary, transferred to archives. The data consists of several parts: 1. audio and video. All of those were retained. 2. Science data from instruments on board. This data went into the PDS, ready to be used by scientists. 3. Engineering telemetry from the spacecraft: data from sensors that monitor spacecraft parts. This was vital during the missions, because it was the source for troubleshooting. At the end of the mission, this data became obsolete. When Apollo ended, NASA had a warehouse full of tapes whose data had already been reviewed and transferred. These tapes were then reused for Landsat. NASA has never claimed the important data was “lost in a fire”. We can verify this because all of the data is still available today, much of it in _public_ archives. The only data they *discarded* was the now-useless engineering telemetry.

Maybe they moved the film set into the Epcot centre so they couldn't do any more movies?

We didnt forget. There was just no reason to go there anymore. NASAs budget also got scaled back significantly and work safety became more popular, making space flight even more expensive.

@@mgordon1713 Im sorry in NASAs own words they "forgot" how to make rockets like the Saturn V.

@@miked3723 Bullocks! We did not "forgot" how to make the Saturn V. We "lost" the ability to build more. After the Apollo program ended and funding got cut, assembly lines got scrapped. Companies that built essential parts went out of business or pivoted to something else. Hell, the F1 first stage engines were hand made! Technology moved on. The blueprints for the Saturn V most certainly still exist as do the blueprints for the command module, service module and LEM. To find those same parts, to re-constitute the assembly lines, to find knowledgeable staff to work those lines, is almost prohibitively expensive. Better to start fresh with the experience we gained. Which is exactly what companies like Space-X are doing with the Falcon Heavy.

@@miked3723 Source?