[BingoTheClowno]

The motives for faking a lunar landing are not hard to see, guys. Look at the situation back then: There was a serious moon race with the Russians that nearly came to blows. They had Sputnik, and if we hadn't have done something, they would have "had" the moon as well. That being the case, a lunar landing could have more than easily been faked with no afterthought. As for the flag on the moon, how hard would it have been to launch a projectile out of the end of any given rocket with the intent of hitting the moon? It's just like throwing a javelin with rocket boosters. And with the Russians thinking we had beat them to the moon, they wouldn't attempt a lunar missile base (which was rumored to be the intent by many a scared Amrican). In fact, they might even think we had a lunar missile base up there, leading to a more timid Russia indeed.
That aside, look at how quickly we got up there. It took us a matter of a few years to accomplish what a few decades couldn't. All because of the whim of the Amrican people and thier soon thereafter assasinated president? think about it folks. We had the means, we had the motive, and we had one heck of an effective hoax.