Motif for faking the so called Moon Landings Apollo 1-18

Motif 1For the Americans, was a technological "victory" as an important demonstration of power against the Soviet Union. The political opponents of the United States have used the alleged forgery of the moon landing but not politically. The Soviet Union has the means to discover (among other things, radar, microwave, satellite), a fake moon landing of the United States. She could hear the radio traffic about the American astronaut and locations. She would have been the space race with the disgrace, not be the first to be landed on the moon, do not have to resign if the moon landing would have been in fact falsified. It is considered unlikely that the Soviet Union would issue instructions to a falsification of the moon landings during the Cold War did not immediately political. The Soviet Union has never one person, but sent a probe to the moon, the rock samples brought back from the moon. The analysis of the samples came from two superpowers to the same result. Also, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union already has a long tradition in the forging of pictures to the sense of "reality check" to fool the population - are famous around the group portraits, from those who died or liquidated politicians were paid off, as these people had never lived. Nothing of the sort was attempted to refute the American moon landing.Motif 2The moon landing could have been distracted at the time of actual problems in Vietnam. This argument ignores the legislative history of the Vietnam War. The launch of the lunar missions (Apollo program), however, was already well ahead on 7 August 1964 adopted intervention Vietnam (Tonkin Gulf incident), namely on 25 May 1961 speech John F. Kennedy (listening? / I, text). Although there have been since 1946 an armed conflict in Vietnam, the trigger for the lunar program is based on the historical facts but rather the great advances of the Soviet manned space flight by Yuri Gagarin on 12 Due April 1961, which shocked the American people again after the Sputnik shock 1957th In addition, the U.S. problems have made in the course of the war felt so well many years after the entry into force of the moon program and several years after the war began.Motif 3NASA could have feared for their space budget of 30 billion U.S. dollars if they could not show positive results. First, this motif completely contradicts the above motif 2: Now if the American government deceived the world, or if they have been deceived by NASA itself? This argument also takes no account of the real allocation. NASA had not financially benefited from a lie: they themselves will not build space ships, but commissioned companies to do it for them. The money was mainly in engineering work (salaries), equipment (some of Saturn V rockets were left even more) and in previous programs such as Mercury and Gemini. The pure material value of the spent rockets and lunar landers when compared to the total budget is minimal, and the non-implementation of the moon landing would have been saved, for example, salaries and only astronaut whose space food. The money saved here could, however, stood in no relation to the effort that would work for the conspiracy and its cover-up must be operated.