Did we go to the moon? The more I look into the details, I feel like we had to have. There are too many weird little details for it to have been made up (videos showing the extreme difficulty of center of gravity changes for astronauts, the fine/dust particles that ripped into suits, etc.) Maybe the first Apollo was a lie but subsequent ones made it? Even James Van Allen said it was possible to make it through the radiation belt named after him before he died.

So why didn't moon expansionism continue? Having a permanent research station on the moon would have been insanely valuable for the past couple of decades; far more than the ISS. Back then it should have been much easier to convince law makers to spend an insane budget needed to fly supplies up there.

The Artemus project just seems doomed to failure. 11~15 fuel pods need to be in orbit first? and they haven't even tested in-space refueling? and they want to start in 2 years?!