The technology to send men to the Moon was insufficient and that the Van Allen radiation belts, solar flares, solar wind, coronal mass ejections, and cosmic rays made such a trip impossible.
Try to get a hold of a copy of the documentary called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon. It will explain why we didn't go to the moon and why the U.S. pulled such a hoax.

Okay. I was a kid then so I don't really know what people were saying at the time.

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The technology to send men to the Moon was insufficient and that the Van Allen radiation belts

The Van Allen radiation belt isn't a prime reason of why the moon landing was a hoax. The amount of radiation that the astronauts received was about as much as a normal human receives at sea level in a 3 year span.

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Solar flares, solar wind, coronal mass ejections, and cosmic rays made such a trip impossible.

You're not giving NASA enough credit. The sun goes through periods when it ejects mass quantities of solar flares, solar wind, coronal mass ejections, etc. NASA wasn't going to send them to the moon while the sun was ejecting all this material.

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Try to get a hold of a copy of the documentary called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon. It will explain why we didn't go to the moon and why the U.S. pulled such a hoax.

That movie was made by Bart Sibrel, who was punched in the jaw by Buzz Aldrin.

If we did fake the moon landing, how come the USSR never called us out on it? We're in a space race with them and they're our biggest rival. If they could prove it was a hoax, they're going to call us out on it. You're basically saying that a hack director was able to prove the moon landing was fake, but a super power at the time couldn't? Something doesn't seem right there.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently took pictures of the moon landing sites. You can actually see the landers, and more objects left on the moon. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Apollo_12_LRO.jpg

How come no one involved in the alleged Apollo hoax has come out and denied the moon landing? That has to be a pretty good pay day if someone did.

Before we left the moon, we put a mirror on the surface. What happens is that astronomers shoot lasers at the mirror and it the laser is reflected back. That's how we know that the moon is in fact moving away from us. They just put it into 'retirement'. How did that get there if we never landed?

Here's the Wikipedia article refuting the hoax conspiracy. I would also suggest reading Philip Plait's book Bad Astronomy, and his website by the same name.