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My question is quite simple. Why would the government or whoever fake the moon landing?
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The Space Race. After World War II, there were two "super-powers" in the world, The United States, and Russia. Russia had a communist government under Stalin, and Stalin's communists wanted to see the end of capiatalism in the world, and likewise the American capitalists wanted to see the end of communism. So a period known as The Cold War begins, named so because it was a war fought with treaties, agreements, and arguments, as opposed to bullets and bombs.
The two parts of The Cold War people hear about most where MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction, a neuclear war deterrent) and The Arms Race, the gradual building of the US and Soviet armies by inventing new guns, bombs, tanks, planes, and so on.
The Space Race was similar to the Arms Race, except it was for space exploration. There were also militrary reasons for it, as both America and Russia were eager to build long range missiles. But, back to the point, Russia won the space race by sending the first satillite and the first human into space. It appeard as though America was falling behind.
The one big argument that supports a "fake" moon landing was that Russian rocket technology was simply better, and at the time, the US wasn't capable of getting to the moon. It would have been faked because we needed to appear as though we were ahead of the Russians in the Space Race, disregarding weather we actually were or not.