that would truly suck to find out that we didn't go to the moon, If it ever came to be true though, I think the gov't owes us alot of tax money back....ALOT
Some might feel that way even though we did land on the moon. Then again, the technology transfer from NASA to private sector, even for failures, compared to countless other programs, is massive. But I won't go there.
Especially since it's popular these days to gut NASA's meager budget for various things that are of questionable value. Same goes for when people demonize defense projects (although NASA's budget is nothing in comparison), not realizing many are safety and humanitarian efforts, in addition to R&D. The nets to detect tsumanis are perfect examples people overlook, and there are yet others. It's not all about F-35s, although the USAF could use some realities checks.
The US is destroying itself through it's lack of engineering investments and innovation, let alone not deploying useful solutions it has already developed. Kinda ironic how other nations complain about US capabilities, and get the US to concede them, all while they develop (often steal) and then deploy their own, hypocritically. Nothing has really changed, whether it was the H-bomb or X-band radars in the Czech Republic and Poland.
Just how the world works. What you see and hear in the media is 180 degrees from the reality of what US allies really want and the reasons why its non-allies do everything they can do undermine them. Which his why there are now concerted efforts to undermine the fact the US ever landed on the moon as well. And it comes full circle.
And to imagine, it was all seeded by a pair of US engineers who wanted to prove, in a video, that most Americans don't have knowledge of even just 18th century physics. Now it's taken a life of its own, where even foreign governments have a vested interest, unrelated to the original experiment. Although, ironically, US math & science test results aren't exactly helping the problem these days.