The Insanely Amazing Apollo Missions: the tech, the landings and the expeditions

In my experience it's one of those slippery slope things. I've had friends over the years tell me that yes, they believe people eventually went to the moon, but they know that the initial Apollo landing was performed on a soundstage.

You can find some pretty amazing footage on YouTube as well of folks with the gall to approach Buzz Aldrin and tell him he's a huckster. (Buzz punches the guy in the face, super satisfying)

The problem is the state of the Hollywood art could not come close to reproducing it and thus it had to be filmed on location. Even now it would take a lot of motion capture shot in the vomit comet with a lot of computer work smoothing the mess out into something that looked real. (Just look at how fake no-gravity scenes are in movies even today.)