Nasa did not have the ability to land under power on the Earth at that time. The moon's weak gravity made the landing (and takeoff) far easier. But the return to Earth required parachutes. Now SpaceX can land under power on the Earth. We're about ready for Mars.
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I get ripped apart when i speak my mind on this subject. Never been on the moon in forty years hmmm. Never made a movie about the moon landings hmmm. A space shuttle that can get past the atmosphere and guide itself aaaall the way to the moon. To my mind it makes no sense, to a fantasy mind it does.
I hope that Howard Hughes, somewhere, is looking down at this extraordinary engineering feat, a big techno-grin on his face as they test this machine through for first flight.
Not really movie sets have equipment they needed for props. Plus myth busters recreated it with there budget. Plus the whole moon landing mission costed 40 billion dollars
I like a good conspiracy as much as the next guy but there is one piece of conclusive evidence for me that we did land on the moon.
1. The reflecting mirrors left on the surface of the moon.
Anyone with a couple of telescopes and a laser pointer can shoot the laser through one telescope, bounce it off the mirror on the surface of the moon and detect it using a 2nd telescope.
Without those mirrors the laser light would not be powerful enough to bounce back and be detected in this way.
Also by timing the laser light you can measure the round trip bounce time and calculate the distance to the moon to be ~250,000 miles and not 70 miles as a Flat Earther would have you believe.
2. As an added bonus, we have other government space agencies (who would love to expose the USA as a fraud) sent up lunar orbiters that took high resolution photos of all our old lunar rover tracks and landers on the moon.