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Originally posted by Sticks
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Originally posted by bananarama
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Originally posted by Sticks
Back then, we had this little thing called the Cold War and there was political will. Today there is not the political will so much, and also back then we were not as risk averse as we are now.
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The political will to fake the landing and put the russians space program out of joint. In that respect they did a good job....It will take 20 years or more now because they do not have and never have had the technology to get there and back alive........
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If this had been faked, then the Russians would have exposed it and embarrassed the US. Plus as this was done in the full glare of publicity, other countries, not friendly with the US were monitoring this and would have cried foul.
Why would the deadly foe of the US at that time acknowledge that they did happen if it did not. The Soviets admitted that the Americans did land on the Moon.
As far as "safely" that is usually taken to mean the radiation issue,
which is addressed here
What is also forgotten, in the run up to Apollo were the Murcury and the Gemini missions which rought in quite a lot of data for the later missions.
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It's not the Russians Americans fear it's the planned Chinese moon advetures. They could expose the American con of all times if the US does not get there before them....