NASA creates these red herrings and controlled opposition shills to discredit the truth by making people who disbelieve the Saga look loony, stupid, or uneducated by association. Due to my own efforts throught th FOIA to get access to the Apollo telemtry tapes, they suddenly discovered they were "lost".
It is extremely easy to prove Apollo wasa hoax from a scientific standpoint and thats why NASA's shills have moved the goalposts calling it a historical achievement that doesn't require critical scientific scrutiny . It's a fable people.
The 'USSR" went along with it because the plan has been all along to unite the world under one totalitarian communist government modeled after soviet Russia.
The USA moonlanding was meant to create the illusion of one big happy family sharing a HUMAN accomplishment and landing on another planet. Humanity was united in something finally, but it was of course a lie. I know it is a difficult concept to wrap your mind around that the US and the SU could be cooperating towards the same goal with the cold war BS, but they were. The intent, control and motivate through fear to prevent a nationalist revolution in both countries by white Christians, to keep them at odds and fearing each other instead of working together to take control of their own countries.