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German national/public broadcasting service ARD reported the lunar lander has successfully landed while they watched a rendered animation[0] (from the perspective of the surface of the moon!!). Can't make this shit up.

0. https://pr0gramm.com/top/5662958 (German)

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So you’re saying the moon landing was faked?

The US Government tried to get Twentieth Century Fox and other studious involved but they were risk adverse after a series of big budget flops and financial problems. Von Braun's joking suggestion of shooting on location was inexplicably taken up. It would have involved sending six Saturn V moon rockets to moon with flim crews and sets. But due to cost overruns and the run up the Vietnam war it was reduced to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin shooting home movies of each other.

True. Everyone knows Stanley Kubrick directed the moon landing shoot. Due to budget cuts they just had to shoot on location with 2 Astronauts.

I mean... I think that's a good quality landing animation.

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