I don’t want to hijack the thread, but I know what I know, and my cousin (not “my friend”, as you state) did what he did, and I have no reasons to doubt his story. You can win if that’s how you get your rocks off, I’m not part of any crazy conspiracy to claim that aliens had landed in Nevada, but I do enjoy trips to my cousin’s digs in the Bahamas every couple of years and meeting his celebrity neighbors. Some things, I am pretty sure of it, happen in ways different than the government reports and the media dutifully parrots.
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Again, did your cousin say that he knows for a fact that ALL the moon landings were staged in a secret Hollywood studio somewhere?
Are you saying that there was so much pressure on NASA in the late 1960s to fulfill the late President Kennedy's dream to put a man on the moon as soon as possible that NASA went to the extraordinary trouble to stage the first moon landing in a secret Hollywood studio?
Let's assume for the moment that the FIRST moon landing with Armstrong----I guess that your cousin is calling Armstrong a liar when Armstrong says that he landed on the moon---was a fake. Then what about moon landings #2, #3, and so forth? Where they staged too, because if only one of those landings was real, that is all we need to prove that NASA had the technology to put a man on the moon.
NOTE: If you believe such a story, then I have a genuine Obama long form birth certificate to sell you, autographed by Obama senior himself.
APPOLLO 13 accident: If you believe your cousin and you also believe that the APOLLO 13 terrible accident was a fake---where the lives of 3 men were in dangerous trouble as they traveled around the moon in a desperate attempt to get back to earth---then I think that your cousin is having fun with you, because your cousin is completely not believable when he calls the first man on the moon Armstrong a liar.
I cannot speak for your family, but I wouldn't trust mine as far as I could throw them. Many of them are given to making up exploits to inflate their own sense of self importance. I have met people who exaggerate and fabricate because it gets people to listen to them with awe; a feeling which they enjoy.