Angelo - I am going to assume you have at least heard of the usual run-of-the-mill 'they didn't really go to the moon, therefore all the pictures must be faked' type argument from the moon landings conspiracy lot (who I don't really identify).
Among a few reasons against the landings being faked are that everyone involved in the manufacturing process (tens of thousands) would not need to be part of a cover-up, but they would have been designing and building things that were supposed to do a job of sending men to the moon, landing, excursions from lander, get back to earth. If a hoax involved launching the rocket but just having it orbit the earth for the time it would take to return from the moon - then I cannot see how such a different mission profile could have been hidden from all the people involved. There is no way a cover-up could have included so many thousands keeping a secret. Keeping secrets is best done with the absolute minimum number of people involved to get the job done. Not a person more. This small number of those in the know could not possibly pull off a fake landing on their own. It stands to reason that the sheer magnitude and publicity of the event would make it impossible to pull off such a complicated hoax. No way. It would be easier to actually put men on the moon than faking the whole thing publicly!
Some of the photos were faked. There is no doubt in my mind. There are glaring inconsistencies in quite a few of them, none of which have been explained by NASA. Now, if there were some official secrecy reason preventing the truth about the photos coming out - then fair enough. I just cannot think what that may be since the photographer, the camera, the scene and all it's equipment are all known about. There should be nothing to hide.
If anyone is doubtful about faked photos, please reply and I shall throw something together quickly outlining the major 'smoking guns' relating to faked photos. I am not anti-NASA - god, those guys/gals really showed what the human mind and cooperation can do! They are heroes in my mind, the whole lot of them, from secretaries to astronauts. Real heroes of the first order.
But my loving NASA, the space program and the moon landings does not allow me to ignore blatant evidence the phots from at least Apollo 11 were faked. I can show which ones and why.
I think there is no great conspiracy, it was such a momentous event that the chance of allowing a pile of bad photos of the event was unbearable, so they took no chances so to speak. There were so many difficulties and unknown parameters to leave it to 'getting it right first time' - so they made sure they had their 'poster boy' quality phots to commemorate the historic event.
If NASA were to admit now they faked some photos because it was so difficult to get good ones to come out I'd be like, 'fair enough - thanks for letting us know now, you still did an amazing job and faked photos doesn't even tarnish the achievement looking back. It is a most minor point, but minor or not, it still exists and the truth either way is better out than in IMO. I realise I may not succeed in changing anyone's minds - but hey! It's important to try when you believe something as important as this.
