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If any of you are genuinely on the fence about whether the moon landing was a hoax or not, I suggest you watch the movie Apollo 11, which is a very entertaining documentary comprised of stricly archival footage.
If you watch it, you will walk away knowing at least this much:
1. We did take off from Earth in a giant rocket ship. This fact was eyewitnessed by hundreds of thousands of people - some of whom you'll recognize (e.g. Johnny Carson). You'll have no choice but to acknowledge that at a MINIMUM, we definitely did send a 363-foot tall, 4-stage rocket TOWARD the moon.
2. This rocket orbited the moon. The technology did not exist at the time to fake the kind of footage Apollo 11 captured of the moon from orbit, which you'll see plenty of in the movie. A simple 60X telescope easily verifies that it is indeed the Moon you're seeing, up close, as Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins discuss said Moon from low orbit.
3. They did the math. You'll hear quite a bit of it in the movie. Trajectories, burns, separations, all calculated, discussed, and executed.
4. These are highly-intelligent men. The footage is intimate, you'll hear conversations between actual rocket scientists, you'll realize they are much, much smarter than you, you'll realize that if anyone did go to the Moon, these were the guys.
So at the end of the movie, you'll know for a fact that we sent a mission toward the Moon, that we achieved lunar orbit, and that we at least had a plan to descend to the surface.
It's possible you may not believe anything you see after that, the landing itself, although frankly the footage of that is pretty goddamn convincing as well.
I mean, if you're absolutely convinced that the moon landing was a hoax, by the time you're done with this movie, the only real argument you'll be able to make is that we accomplished everything required to achieve a Moon landing including flying to the moon, but we somehow lacked the ability to land on a rock when we got there.
