Something I never questioned until this idiot told me not to
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"The Moon landings never happened" is one of the all-time dumbest conspiracy theories, just one step above Flat Earth. 1) These people know nothing of aeronautical engineering. If they did they'd know why the landings were perfectly feasible with the technology of the day. It was a massive engineering undertaking, but a lot easier to pull off than a fake space program.
Perhaps even more crucially, 2) they ignore the practical fact that tens of thousands of people worked on the project, and nobody talked. Nobody had a deathbed confession. Apparently, no journalist wanted to win a Pulitzer by exposing the conspiracy. The Soviets never bothered to blow the whistle on us to humiliate us. Really?? A secret that big and widespread simply cannot be kept, especially when many people have strong motives to blow the whistle.
No amount of "suggestive" details like losing documents and numbskull theories about how artificial lights can't work in a vacuum can overcome those two points.
I don't know why you think a Moon landing now would be impossible. The tech is there, it's just a matter of $$$$.
The reason a conspiracy would be more difficult is because it would need tens of thousands to keep a secret about it for decades. That includes not just the original fakers, but the scientists studying the (in your theory fake) Moon rocks brought back, the ones using the reflector placed on the Moon, the people running the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter which has taken photos of the landing sites, etc.
The Manhattan Project example doesn't help your case: the secret did get out at the time, via the Rosenbergs, Greenglass, Fuchs, etc.