The space race and assuming dominance as a world power was probably the reasoning for faking it.
I'll sum up some of the points as briefly as possible and y'all can look up the videos.
1. Stanley Kubrick came right out and said he filmed the entire moon landing hoax.
2. Buzz (astronaut) has said many times that you see it as it happened and never that we actually went there.
3. How did the rover fit on the rockets?
4. What did the moon Rover use for fuel? Batteries that weren't invented yet? Gas motor where there is no oxygen?
5. Who filmed the return ship that flew away from the moon surface?
6. Why are all the stars missing from every scene?
7. How did the president call the guys on the moon on a landline?
8. NASA says they lost the technology to go back..
9. How did we get everything perfectly correct the very first time?
It was all filmed in a studio, that's how.
Christina Kock the "astronaut" was in Mad Max 2 fury road movie
Victor Glover is the other actor.
When you watch the launch footage you can see the 4 safety cages deploy and bring the 4 astronauts right back to the ground.
Here's one I just pulled up real quick.
Also look up Mars and Devon Island...
NASA is just lies, and lies, and lies..