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One thing I never understood, even when I was a teenager (and not fully "red pilled" about the FAKE nature of the Moon Landings)
and the ONE point I'd like to discuss here:

How could Americans get "sick of" or "bored with" NASAs exploits on the Moon?  Everyone was so excited about it, everyone believed in it, boys were big-time into science, sci-fi, electronics, ham radio, etc.

And then just MONTHS later, everyone would rather watch "I Love Lucy" than see another Apollo mission on TV.

My theory: there was some cognitive dissonance involved. In other words, even if you didn't notice things CONSCIOUSLY, even if you went with the crowd, didn't speak up anything you might have noticed that was amiss, you still know it deep-down, in your subconscious. Something about this or that aspect (the flight, the live feed, the equipment, etc.) seemed "off" or "hokey". And it makes you uncomfortable. So you'd just rather not think about it, all things being equal. Who wants to make themselves uncomfortable, on ANY level? At least not without a good reason (like working to support your family).

It's not like you're supporting your family, or doing your duty for God and country by switching on the TV and watching Apollo footage. It was completely optional, completely "entertainment" for most Americans. And yet the VAST MAJORITY of them voluntarily rejected it -- even though this was, on the surface, a feat that had never before been done in human history.

And I'll go one step further -- because of said "cognitive dissonance", these Boomers didn't want to "Go back" to the moon, even decades later, because they knew deep down it wasn't as historic, as ground-breaking as was claimed (because it was fake! which they suspected deep-down).

Because EVEN IF you can explain how people got bored with the Apollo missions, that wouldn't explain it for more than 10 or 15 years. Heck, in the 80s there were plenty of people who weren't even alive in 1969. Even fewer of those alive in 2000, or 2010 could recall the Apollo missions. So "Americans were tired of the Moon" is a lame excuse.

It just doesn't add up.

I don't think there was any "cognitive dissonance" behind it.  People just got bored with it because they got bored with it.  Following the standard narrative, we went, nothing bad happened there, we got back home safely, we went again, same thing, Apollo 13 went wrong, then we went back four more times, each time more underwhelming than the time before.  We made the point, you can go there, you can come back, end of story.

Again, that is assuming we did indeed go.  I've never understood why we didn't erect a permanent or semi-permanent base there, and leave people there for extended periods of time, in the same fashion as the ISS, if for no other reason than "because we can".  Again, assuming...

One other thing I thought of --- if there were a permanent or semi-permanent moon base, left in situ when it weren't being occupied, and if it were large enough, wouldn't it be visible from earth, using a telescope, and able to have its existence verified even by those would seek to debunk that existence?  If there were, let's say, a 500-foot-long structure on the moon, are there telescopes, available to non-government entities, that could see it, and could ham radio hobbyists seek to send and receive messages?

I'm reminded here of the story from Apollo 11:

http://www.arrl.org/eavesdropping-on-apollo-11