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I think it's not that hard to put myself in the mindset of someone who thinks the moon landing was faked, at least - I wasn't alive while it was going on and it has this feeling of being too good to be true as a result, and unlike many consipracy theories which involve completely irrational actions or motives or an impossibly complicated plan on the part of the perpetrators, the motive for faking the moon landing actually makes sense and staging a fake moon landing would be easier to do than actually landing on the moon. It's one of the rare conspiracy theories where the conspiracy theory does seem more likely than what actually happened, because the fact that we landed on the moon is truly amazing and does feel like it demands extraordinary evidence to believe.

But it's pretty clear that the moon landing did really happen, because it actually IS impossible for the US to have upheld the conspiracy for this long. If nobody really ever went to the moon, there's absolutely no way that everyone would have maintained their silence on it this whole time. You can't keep this many people in on a grand conspiracy for this long - it's not possible. There would be actual cracks in the story, there would be people who had come out and said something by now, even at risk of having their lives ruined. But like Jakyl said, not even the Soviets discredited the moon landing (although I can't help but wonder if things would be different now), and there's just a preponderance of evidence that suggests that we had the means to go to the moon and that we pulled it off - we have rockets, we have astronauts, we DID all the work that would make it necessary to put people on the moon and those parts CAN be easily proven.

After all that, it really makes no sense to believe that we staged the moon landing and somehow kept it a secret for decades.