So much for that old love song "Fly me to the moon" then .

Oh,yes! how many songs can one find that include reference to the Moon somewhere?

A main problem is this: when NASA went from the Apollo missions to the space shuttle, it moved from an organization of exploration to a trucking company. Trucking companies are needed, but not glamorous. Interest started to wane during Apollo 12 and onwards, but waned even greater after the initial shuttle missions.

I am not belittling the bravery and courage of our astronauts; but this is a significant factor in the decline of interest in space travel.

years ago, I saw a "documentary" movie by naysayers, "proving" that the moon landing was a hoax.

was there ever a retort to that production?

The moon landing was a fake, It was all done in a hollywood studio. Don't belive me? then who filmed it? you might say they had a camera mounted on the landing craft itself, however if you read the very fine print that comes with kodak film it says the film will not work below a certian temprature.

It was a hoax I tell you! How did they measure the distance from the earth to the moon? They say they shot a laser to a mirror placed on the moon and waited for the reflection to bounce off the mirror or the moon and recorded the time it took for the return trip then did some funky mathematics and that's how they know the distance from the earth to the moon. I say proove it!