Muita suuria vaihtoehtoja sodalle talousjohtimina tai talousvauhtipyörinä ovat rajaton sosiaalihuolto-ohjelma tai jättimäinen (mutta tuottoisa) rajaton avaruusohjelma.
—Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars: An Introduction Programming Manual - Operations Research Technical Manual TW-SW7905.1 (1979)
Klassisin vastaväite Apollo-huijausta vastaan on ollut se, että jos Yhdysvallat ei olisi käynyt Kuussa, Venäjä eli silloinen Neuvostoliitto, jonka kanssa Yhdysvallat oli avaruuskilvassa ja niin sanotussa "kylmässä sodassa", olisi välittömästi paljastanut Apollo-huijauksen maailmalle mustamaalatakseen arkkivihollisensa.
Ovatko venäläiset tarpeeksi älykkäitä päätelläkseen oliko Apollo huijausta vai ei? Tarttuisivatko venäläiset tilaisuuteen saada amerikkalaiset vaikuttamaan huijareilta ja typeryksiltä? Entä kiinalaiset? Paljastaisivatko hekin huiputuksen?
Ovatko venäläiset tarpeeksi älykkäitä tajuamaan tuhottiinko World Trade Centerin rakennus 7 räjähtein ja pyrkisivätkö he saamaan amerikkalaiset vaikuttamaan huijareilta ja typeryksiltä?
Ovatko venäläiset tarpeeksi älykkäitä tajuamaan oliko syyskuun 11. päivän tapahtumat hämäystä ja pyrkisivätkö he saamaan Amerikan hallituksen vaikuttamaan valehtelijoilta, murhaajilta ja huijareilta?
Ovatko venäläiset tarpeeksi älykkäitä tajuamaan oliko presidentti Kennedyn murha järjestetty vedätys ja pyrkisivätkö he saamaan amerikkalaiset vaikuttamaan huijareilta ja idiooteilta?
Ovatko venäläiset tarpeeksi älykkäitä tajuamaan oliko Oklahoma Cityn pommi-isku hämäystä ja pyrkisivätkö he saamaan amerikkalaiset vaikuttamaan huijareilta ja idiooteilta?
Luulenpa, että vastaus näihin kysymyksiin on: Kaikilla mailla on korruptoituneet hallitukset ja kaikki syyllistyvät petoksiin. Yksikään maa ei halua joutua kiistaan, jossa pitäisi saada selville kuka on huijannut missäkin asiassa. —Eric Hufschmid
Venäläiset eivät paljastaneet Apollo-huijausta samasta syystä, jonka takia he tai mikään toinen valtio ei ole koskaan paljastanut mitään muutakaan suurta huijausta.
Maailman valtiot, kuten Yhdysvallat, Venäjä ja Suomi ovat kuin pyöreän pöydän ympärillä 4D-uhkapelišakkia pelaava rikollisjärjestö.
Erimielisyyksien seurauksena silloin tällöin joku kinaavista pelaajista ammutaan (esim. John F. Kennedy), mutta jos joku järjestelmän ulkopuolinen taho (esim. tavistutkijat) uhkaavat itse uhkapeliä (esim. paljastamalla Apollo-huijaus), kaikki pelin pelaajat vetävät yhteistyössä yhtä köyttä sivistyneen keskustelun sijasta koomisesti haukkuen median, koululaitosten ja tiedustelupalveluiden kautta tavistutkijoita "salaliittoteoriitikoiksi", "foliohatuiksi", "vihapuherikollisiksi" jne.
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Eric Hufschmid, Yleisiä Apollo-huijauksen kiistanaiheita, Huge Questions; Eric Hufschmid, Apollo-kuuhuijaus, Huge Questions; Astroparapolitiikasta ks. Bill Kaysing, We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle!, Desert Publications, Arizona, (1981), s 14, 178; Bart Sibrel, Moon Man: The True Story of a Filmmaker on the CIA Hit List, Washington, D.C., (2021), s. 131-133.
Rick Noack, Russia calls investigation into whether US moon landings happened, The Independent, (Thursday 18 June 2015 07:42); Craig Fraley, Why There's Doubt: Moon Landings, CreateSpace, California, (2017), s. 171-173.
But that is not the main reason that people cling so tenaciously, often even angrily, to what is essentially the adult version of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. What primarily motivates them is fear. But it is not the lie itself that scares people; it is what that lie says about the world around us and how it really functions. For if NASA was able to pull off such an outrageous hoax before the entire world, and then keep that lie in place for four decades, what does that say about the control of the information we receive? What does that say about the media, and the scientific community, and the educational community, and all the other institutions we depend on to tell us the truth? What does that say about the very nature of the world we live in? That is what scares the hell out of people and prevents them from even considering the possibility that they could have been so thoroughly duped. It’s not being lied to about the Moon landings that people have a problem with, it is the realization that comes with that revelation: if they could lie about that, they could lie about anything. —Dave McGowan, Wagging the Moondoggie: Part I, The Center for an Informed America, (Oct 1, 2009).
The Moon landing lie is unique among the big lies in another way as well: it is a lie that seemingly cannot be maintained indefinitely. Washington need never come clean on, say, the Kennedy assassinations. After all, they’ve been lying about the Lincoln assassination for nearly a century-and-a-half now and getting away with it. But the Moon landing hoax, I would think, has to have some kind of expiration date. How many decades can pass, after all, without anyone coming even close to a reenactment before people start to catch on? Four obviously haven’t been enough, but how about five, or six, or seven? How about when we hit the 100-year anniversary? If the first trans-Atlantic flight had not been followed up with another one for over forty years, would anyone have found that unusual? If during the early days of the automobile, when folks were happily cruising along in their Model T’s at a top speed of 40 MPH, someone had suddenly developed a car that could be driven safely at 500 MPH, and then after a few years that car disappeared and for many decades thereafter, despite tremendous advances in automotive technology, no one ever again came close to building a car that could perform like that, would that seem at all odd? —Dave McGowan, Wagging the Moondoggie: Part I, The Center for an Informed America, (Oct 1, 2009).
In truth, the entire space program has largely been, from its inception, little more than an elaborate cover for the research, development and deployment of space-based weaponry and surveillance systems. The media never talk about such things, of course, but government documents make clear that the goals being pursued through space research are largely military in nature. For this reason alone, it is inconceivable that the Soviets would not have followed the Americans onto the Moon for the sake of their own national defense. [...] Again, the question that immediately comes to mind is: Why? Why has no nation ever duplicated, or even attempted to duplicate, this miraculous feat? Why has no other nation even sent a manned spacecraft to orbitthe Moon? Why has no other nation ever attempted to send a manned spacecraft anywhere beyond low-Earth orbit? [...] Maybe, you say, it’s just too damned expensive. But the 1960s were not a particularly prosperous time in U.S. history and we were engaged in an expensive Cold War throughout the decade as well as an even more expensive ‘hot’ war in Southeast Asia, and yet we still managed to finance no less than seven manned missions to the Moon, using a new, disposable, multi-sectioned spacecraft each time. And yet in the four decades since then, we are apparently supposed to believe that no other nation has been able to afford to do it even once. —Dave McGowan, Wagging the Moondoggie: Part I, The Center for an Informed America, (Oct 1, 2009).
In addition to restoring national pride and providing a diversion from the savage colonial war being waged in Southeast Asia, the Apollo program undoubtedly served another function as well: covert funding of that war effort. Needless to say, faking Moon landings is less expensive than actually making Moon landings, and a whole lot of money was funneled NASA's way during the Vietnam years to accomplish the latter. It stands to reason that a considerable amount of that money could well have been diverted into covert operations being conducted in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. In addition, a portion of the Apollo funding likely financed the early stages of the militarization of space. —Dave McGowan, Wagging the Moondoggie: Part III, The Center for an Informed America, (Oct 1, 2009).
Apollo 8 was the last Apollo flight to leave the ground during the Johnson administration. A decade before the launch, LBJ had laid out America's goals in the space race, and none of them had much to do with sending men to the Moon: "Control of space means control of the world. From space, the masters of infinity would have the power to control Earth's weather, to cause drought and flood, to change the tides and raise the levels of the sea, to divert the gulf stream and change the climates [...]" I thought it was global warming that was supposed to be causing most of that, but I guess that is a bit off-topic. —Dave McGowan, Wagging the Moondoggie: Part X, The Center for an Informed America, (Dec 7, 2009).
