Is the moon landing a hoax?

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What empirical basis do we actually have, especially, the newer generation, in order believe that the apollo moon landing took place with 100% certainty, is the footage shown, history books, interviews, oficial position on it, evidence enough for us, or is that just a matter of leap of faith or both, elaborate please.

Um... there's crap we brought back from the moon. I've seen and handled moon rocks (my middle school science teacher had some connections in NASA). We left some stuff up there. There is footage (and obviously not faked footage, we have enough eyewitness testimony) that shows astronauts boarding a rocket that was blasted off into space, and the same evidence shows them coming back. I suppose it is hypothetically possible that they just went into orbit and the rest is an extremely elaborate hoax, but if we start believing that we'll make poor William of Ockham slit his wrists with that fancy razor of his. Lex Parsimoniae is the kiss of death to most of these crazy conspiracy theories.

What purpose to fake it? Motive is key. If it is a fake, how far does the fake extend? Does it extend as far as other corroborating info (satellite images etc.)

Of course it's faked. There's NO WAY they could have survived traveling through the Van Halen radiation belts. Americans are f*****g sheep.

I once saw a documentary on the subject which caused me to have serious doubts. I voted I do not care.

the moon doesn't exist!

All the so-called evidence the conspiracy theorists has put forth have rational explanations. The flag "flutters" because it's carrying the momentum from the astronauts adjusting it, the lighting anomalies are simply the result of uneven terrain and the reflective properties of lunar dust, the clear footprint is due to the extremely rough nature of lunar dust.

The simple fact is, we went to the moon. The only reason we haven't been back is that after the Apollo missions there simply wasn't a practical reason to return. We already knew what was there, and it was insanely expensive to go back. We won't be back until the Constellation Project kicks off and eventually returns in June of 2019.

Once the seeds of doubt are planted they might infect more solid knowledge like Biblical stories of the parting of the sea and the story of Adam and Eve and the snake. Better to accept the Moon landing and flying saucer stories and Saddam Hussein's WMDs and Obama as the savior of the nation and Christ's ascension into heaven. Let sleeping dogs lie. (Evidently they can lie better than Nixon or the former Senator McCarthy).

Moon landing hoax theories are rather like most species of conspiracy theory: evidence which the person making the claim is spectacularly unqualified to examine is dredged up, refuted time and again, and when all substantial evidence fails some completely circumstantial BS is summoned.

There is this bazaar cult of self appointed skeptics out there who, lacking expertise and education in relevant fields, has appointed themselves fit to evaluate and criticize the "disinformation" promulgated by The Man.

I mean, I'm going through a list of the most prominent moon hoax accusers, and they pretty much all have in common not being engineers or scientists. Now, it probably doesn't help that a lot of them are film makers, journalists and *some guy who wrote a book*, all of whom I have essentially zero respect for. So maybe I'm just biased.

The guy who got the whole thing started was - and anyone who follows cruel geek field of study rivalries on the internet will get a chuckle - an English major.

Where would we be without these self appointed scions of truth to educate us, save us from hoaxes and conspiracies and MMR vaccines?

(Of course, the only engineer who is mentioned on the list - get this - is apparently bat s**t nuts because he thinks that the moon has .64G surface gravity - he also thinks that the moon landings were real but the speed of the film was decreased to cover up the high gravity).