anyone who believes the moon landings are fake are instantly dumb in my eyes
While I am not going to deny the moon landing, I will say that it did nothing. The soviet launched the first unmanned objects, a manned object with a dog, and the first man into space. Meanwhile all we did was land on the moon and called it the greatest achievement. After that, there have been little or no attempts to go to the next level because it just wasn't important anymore to the US government. In their mind "We beat the Soviets to the moon, we are #1. End of story, no more need for improving the space program. GG."