I certainly don't have all the answers, but this I know this much for certain: NASA are a bunch of liars, and all the footage from "low earth orbit" is as fake as a 3 1/2 dollar bill.
Astronauts with perms and hair gel, getting tripped up on hidden wires, obvious CGI glitches, and rare gems like when an astroNOT dropped a beach ball -- it went straight DOWN -- and all the other astroNOTs reacted instantly, until they realized they're stuck in harnesses and couldn't do anything to grab it. I'm sorry, but this proves fraud. NASA is a huge fraud.
And we never went to the moon, and CAN'T. The only matter for debate is: WHY we can't. The firmament and/or the Van Allen Belts, the nature of the Moon and planets, etc.
In the end, the result is the same. God created us, the earth, and put us here. There are no aliens, and we will never be a "multi-planet species". I like Sci-fi as much as -- no, scratch that, I like Sci-fi MORE than the next guy. About the only show I watched as a teenager was "Star Trek: TNG". But I treat it as FANTASY, which it is.
Even if someone could prove that there's SOMETHING claiming to be "the ISS" up there, that doesn't mean there's any men on it. I've seen the fraud. You can't dismiss it. Not without being some kind of shill, going against the truth. WHY WOULD NASA LIE?