well you are entitled to your opinion
problem is, by listing the countries you say you would not believe you have nearly wiped out any one who is anywhere near capable of doing this verification for you
its like asking a kindergartner to disprove a negative. Nearly no one else is capable of giving either the evidence of absence or absence of evidence that you require
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There are too many liars on the US government payroll"
Well, yes there are. But consider this-
how many people were involved in the mercury and apollo missions? thats the crews. the engineers, the designers, the control room people, etc,etc?
over all of those years--10's of thousands
how do you get that many people to keep a secret of the magnitude you suggest?
now look at the secrets that the US govt has been caught on. by comparison to moon mission numbers, very few people knew of things like WATERGATE, or the Gulf of Tonkin incident or that Iraq really did not have the type of WMDS we were made to believe they had.
but, the secrets or rather, knowledge that A SECRET EXISTED and therefore needed to be researched by a journalist or someone else, still got out
out of all the tens of thousands of people involved in apollo and mercury, not one who has said anything has been proven independently to be reliable.
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now, on the other hand, isn't china building a near moon probe to scan and map the moons surface?
<< holy crap! while looking this up I see where the chinese just announced the landing of their probe 2 days ago!! >>
so they went to the dark side of the moon, does this mean they accept the fact that both the US and Russia (unmanned) have been to the light side?
(and maybe this success lends to some of their recent cockiness in other world events?)
https://www.apnews.com/c4dc6858a32b4b61bdbc6aebf5459a91