I hope and prey it was real, having been 5 watching Niel Armstrong take that 1st great step...........or was that the reason he took a step back in life as he couldn't deal with the deciept?
Japan has a spacecraft going to the moon to map it soon, so that should end any theory.
We know the moon is moving away from the earth by about 12 feet a year due to tidal friction. We know this distance because astronomers fire a laser beam at the receiver twice a day every day since the moon landings where the astronauts placed it.