During an economic depression and the Cold War, america was in hard times during the late 1960's.  Engaged in a 'space race' with russia,  JFK promised the people that we would make it into orbit by the end of the decade. We were pushed to get a shuttle off the ground.  Our high expectanctcy of the newly instituted NASA was slowly dwindling as one billion dollar endevor after another smashed into the ground.

7 shuttles in a row didn't even make it to 5,000 feet.

At the time, NASA was reported to be very unorganized and grossly unprepared for what we hoped could get done by the end of the 60's.  There was no gameplan.  NASA continually had failed test flights, attempted launches, but no cigar.  This would be a reflection of America's technology and power at the time, which is of coarse was infalible.  America was getting desperate.

On the last year of our promised landing, America supposedly 'made it' to the moon.  We were happy, we beat Russia, the cold war was over, and the sun finally rose again.  But reasearch thats been sprouting up since the late 70's shows evidence that we may not have ever made it.   heres a few:

The Van Allen belts - increadably thick radiation belts surround the Earth about 1,000 miles off of the atmosphere, and extending another 25,000 miles out.  Like when film gets destroyed when put through an X-ray machine, these highly radioactive belts would have killed the Kodak film used in the first Apollo missions.  They did use Kodak in the first mission and  even the creator of the camera used in those missions was completely stumped on how they got pictures back to earth in a recent interview from FOX.  Besides the film these intense levels of radiation would easily cause cancer or horrid mutations within minutes of any human being exposed. Every manned space mission in history (including Mercury, Gemini, Soyuz, Skylab and the Space Shuttle) has been well below this deadly radiation field... all except Apollo. Some pro-NASA finatics argue that their space suits could protect them, yet the suits were made of around 6 to 8 layers of different fabrics and isulation that under no circumstances would provide 'protection' from that much radioactive force.  To this day we STILL don't have the technology to so.

Faulse Hypothosis - If the moon has one-sixth the gravitational force of the Earth then the astronauts would not be able to 'hop around' as they do in the landing footage.  It would be a much more unstable environment and would easily fly off its gravitational pull.  Modern reasearch and scientific study shows that the moon doesn't have one 6th of the Earth's gravity but a whopping 64 percent!

Other scientific calculations show that an 185-pound man wearing a space suit of equal weight should have been able to jump six feet off the ground. Yet apparently white astronauts can't jump, for they never cleared more than a pathetic 18 inches. conpirists suggests that NASA used the bulky space suits in an unconvincing attempt to explain away this "anemic jumping."

Flag Waving - Upon the famous sceen in where the American Flag was placed on the moon's surface by Buzz and Neil, It would seem that the flag was majestically waving in its patriotic glory.  But this would be imposible due to the moon's complete lack of an atmosphere.  No air, no wind, no god damn flag waving.  Some defenders say that it waved because he was twisting the pole into place, but hey, thats for you to decide. 

Heat Fluxuation - Estimated temperature done by experts say that on the surface of the moon, in the sun's light, the temperature can rise up to 250º F and, on the mysterious dark side of the moon can drop to 250º below.  As I explained before, those dinky suits that we threw on those astronauts could not protect against such viabrant temperatures.  Even in the shadows the temp can get that low.  Also, as i mentioned, the regular Kodak film would easily burn to crisp long before the picture was even taken.

Doctored photos - weather you believe there was a moon landing or not, there is an overwhealming amount of evidence suggesting doctored photos. The images, that you can get at NASA dot com itself have many inexplicable oddities.

First, theres a grid that was embeded on the lens of the special generic Kodak camera used.  Because it's printed on the lens, the little plus signs that made up the grid should cover everything in the image, but in this first picture you can see that a peice of the moon roaver goes OVER the grid.  As if it was superimposed on later.