The US Moon landing was a fraud.
In fact, we landed on the Moon before July 20, 1969. The precise date is still classified, of course.
After the X-wing crashed on the USS Long Island and tipped overboard, the entire crew was sworn into secrecy with the threat of at least 10 yrs prison time in Area 53 in Nevada. After WW II, other concerns occupied our attention and budget, but we never forgot where the alien spacecraft rested. The US Navy never wavered in its guard over the spacecraft's resting site.
When Sputnik came, we had to put on an indignant front, lest the world be suspicious. So came the official US space program, complete with staged disasters, which no one really died, even with Apollo 1, and Apollo 13 was the world's first space drama with real astronauts playing their assigned roles. During the 'space race', we sent ships all over the world with the cover story of searching for a suitable water landing site. The cover story was a truth, just not the truth.
Under this cover, the alien spacecraft was recovered and sent to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado Springs. From disassembly and exploration, we built a spacecraft that went to the Moon in hrs, not days as how the Apollo 11 mission was portrayed to the world. We went to the dark side of the Moon to avoid discovery by Earth telescopes and radars. We have been maintaining a lunar base on the dark side of the Moon for decades.
Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins were truly the first men on the Moon but they used the more advanced spacecraft, not the Apollo 11 rocket. For the Apollo 11 mission, they revived their roles as astronauts. From 1942, we knew that one day humanity would have to confront the uncomfortable truth that we are not alone. So the US government and top American thinkers devised a plan to enlist the help of the creative community, which includes movies and writers, to mentally prepare the world for the inevitable day that we would officially meet an alien race. The science fiction genre received the highest priority in terms of financial and moral support.
Now you people know the truth.