I am not, and have never been, a card-carrying member of the “Apollo was hoaxed” school. Rather, the rocketry was for show…and the show may have been to mask the possibility that there were hidden technologies in play that got us to the Moon, and more importantly, off of it once we got there, a possibility suggested to me by curious statements Dr. Von Braun made to Time magazine shortly after the Apollo 11 mission.

Thus, I suspect were watching the creation of the “public spectacle” version of the show, while the real story lies in hidden technologies and capabilities, or, to put it bluntly, in a secret space program.