>>11527281>>115271811) The Apollo CSM/LEM stack travelled on an inclined orbit that only just skimmed the belts. The Van Allen radiation belts are donut-shaped.
2) Those space suits were only used for a few hours at most. The astronauts did not use them for several days at a time. Also, they are the opposite of flimsy. Each one had several layers of insulation and protection just in case a layer did break
3) They timed it just right so that they didn't have to face either the full on brunt of the heat, and always left before nightfall.
4) The craft are designed to work in a vacuum. The forces acting upon them are a lot lower than what a similar object would face on Earth.
5) US government was saving face. Nothing really wrong with this and it doesn't prove that Apollo didn't happen, just that bureaucracy got involved, as usual.
6) It actually ended before the war did. In 1968, even before the first lunar landing, Saturn V production was pretty much capped off. It was also voted in around 71' for the Apollo Program to end, and the shuttle to begin. 'Nam ended in 75', and troops left in 73'ish.
7) The soviets were ahead at first, but failed because they were broke. Really. Their Lunar rocket, the N-1, had failed on all of its four flights, not because the tech was impossible, but because they lacked the funds to test the first stage before every flight.
8) Lunar missions are expensive, and most of the production equipment was left to rot even a few years after Apollo. Since the 80s', when the shuttle started flying, a new lunar program would essentially be 100% new technology. That's very expensive to build, and Congress could never settle on spending $100 Billion over a short while. They always underfund space programs.
Lastly, don't you think that the Russians would have spilled the beans on the Americans' fake moonshot?
