[lyner]

If you are in an orbiting craft and you want to talk to Earth, you have to be able to contact (see) this ground based link. So you would be restricted to communicating when you were Earthside. That would have been painfully obvious to Russians etc. . They would have been aware of all this and would have either spotted it and mentioned it at the time or later. Well, wouldn't they have spotted the fact that the contact with the (official) crew of the command module was in the same intervals as the communication with the  claimed ground crew? I think even I would have spotted that if I had been a Soviet, dieing to discredit the Yanks.
In fact, it would be better not to use a ground based link at all because you could see the Earth for more time than you could see this ground location (below horizon more when in a low orbit than the view of the Earth).

I imaging the call times are ALL logged and on record! The proof / disproof of this particular theory is there to be accessed. Only one single call which doesn't fit in with orbit times is sufficient to disprove it.

I should have been a policeman!

[labview1958]

Why does neil armstrong keeps quiet about the moon landing? I feel that the first landing was a hoax. The rest were real.

[lyner]

On what basis? Just because of one person's reaction to what must have been an overwhelming experience? Post traumatic stress if ever it existed.
It strikes me that they got an amazing number of things RIGHT about life up there the first time if it really was faked. Hollywood got it wrong every time, before they showed them what it was really like.

[lightarrow]

There is a thing I don't understand about Moon's surface: if you want to land there, how do you know that you won't land in a hole of dust and that you won't sink down it?