Readers, please note the following from
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/yes-united-states-certainly-did-land-humans-moon-180972161/ .
'A radio talk show host, Rob McConnell, declared that listeners to his show The X Zone,
offered astounding responses to two questions—“Do you believe in
ghosts, and did American astronauts really walk on the Moon?”—77 percent
of respondents said yes to belief in ghosts, and 93 percent said that
they did not believe that the Moon landings had actually occurred. As
Seth Shostak from the SETI Institute remarked about this, “The
respondents believe in ghosts, but do not think NASA put people on the
moon. On the one hand, you have uncorroborated testimony about noises in
the attic. On the other, you have a decade of effort by tens of
thousands of engineers and scientists, endless rocket hardware,
thousands of photos, and 378 kilograms (840 pounds) of moon rock.”
Shostak was befuddled by this reality of modern American society.
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was more philosophical. “If people
decide they’re going to deny the facts of history and the facts of
science and technology,” he said, “there’s not much you can do with
them. For most of them, I just feel sorry that we failed in their
education.”
Readers, please also see https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/moon-landing/ . It says in part the following.
'2.) Over 8,000 photos documenting our trips. Perhaps we
all need a reminder of what the sacrifices were that went into our
journey to the Moon. We accomplished the unthinkable by banding together
to achieve a common goal, and could do it all once again. NASA
has released all the photos of the twelve Apollo missions that made it
to space on a publicly available Flickr photostream, sorted into a series of incredible albums by mission.
.. 4.) We brought back samples, and learned a ton about lunar geology from them. The
final two astronauts to ever walk on the Moon, Gene Cernan and Harrison
Schmitt, ran into quite a surprise when they did. Schmitt, the lone
civilian-astronaut (and only scientist) to travel to the Moon, was often
described as the most business-like of all the astronauts.
... Most remarkably, the lunar samples we’ve found indicate that the Earth
and the Moon have a common origin, consistent with a giant impact that
occurred only a few tens of millions of years into the birth of our
Solar System. Without direct samples, obtained by the Apollo missions
and brought back to Earth, we never would have been able to draw such a
startling, but spectacular, conclusion.'
Readers, please also look at https://www.history.com/news/space-race-soviet-union-moon-landing-denial . It is fascinating.