As someone who can tell you a bit about that stuff, I have other reasons, though you say that like anyone would wish to convert you regarding that (at least as much as others wish to take that approach with us). This is just me answering the question “what conspiracy theory do you kinda believe”.
There is more to it than that when I look at this. 1969 was a year more about national pomp than capabilities and when suspicion was no object to anyone. In hindsight, the cold war plays out like a really bad argument between two entities, and the circumstances take so many twists and turns, with money and politics being all over the place because that was the big hurdle, even more than anyone’s abilities. For something so important, NASA didn’t even bother to preserve the original tapes.
I internally rationalize the argument the same way I internalize how to go about any conflict I have been involved in, which leads me to, at best, take an agnostic approach on whether it happened. I also think to myself “wait, so French Polynesia was being blasted into smithereens, civil rights was still in its infancy, and there were several crises going on in the world at that moment, yet it’s the moon landings funded by the citizens that got people going”, so all in all, I just consider the incentive low.
As someone who can tell you a bit about that stuff, I have other reasons, though you say that like anyone would wish to convert you regarding that (at least as much as others wish to take that approach with us). This is just me answering the question “what conspiracy theory do you kinda believe”.
Anyone who thinks government’s aren’t capable of these kinds of things just needs to look at the last few years in US politics
There is more to it than that when I look at this. 1969 was a year more about national pomp than capabilities and when suspicion was no object to anyone. In hindsight, the cold war plays out like a really bad argument between two entities, and the circumstances take so many twists and turns, with money and politics being all over the place because that was the big hurdle, even more than anyone’s abilities. For something so important, NASA didn’t even bother to preserve the original tapes.
I internally rationalize the argument the same way I internalize how to go about any conflict I have been involved in, which leads me to, at best, take an agnostic approach on whether it happened. I also think to myself “wait, so French Polynesia was being blasted into smithereens, civil rights was still in its infancy, and there were several crises going on in the world at that moment, yet it’s the moon landings funded by the citizens that got people going”, so all in all, I just consider the incentive low.