I have a take on this that nobody seems to like, and it is this:

The Apollo program was real, and real rockets went up, circled the earth, and returned. May or may not have been automated. People went to the moon (and other places) in other craft, craft that would have had over 20 years of development at the time of 1969. They did not fly there in tin cans.

I love how the moon landing hoax crowd completely ignores the secret space program. Why is that?