Fuck, you people need to learn some physics. I CAN LITERALLY PUT AN OBJECT IN UPPER ORBIT. Its not fucking hard. Give me $50k and I'll do a sputnik for you.

Completely agree. "Rocket science" is just a meme to keep you all think, that a space stuff is very hard and complex. It does not. I'm not shure about $50k for upper orbit satellite, but that will be definitely enough to easily pass Karman line and may be even put something light on LEO. Or just pay to launch your homebuilt Cubesat formfactor satellite with your own tranciever and talkback guts everybody could easily check with cheap RTL-SDR dongle.

As for Moon landing it easily could be a hoax of hoax. Humans developed a technology to reach other celestial bodies. US used it to show a superiority in space race. But TPTB reasonably asked themselves a simple question - what if a people will believe that they got a way to escape Earth authorities? Many definitely will eventually do that. They will develop without TPTB control, will make the inventions that should not be allowed, instead of making stupid smartphones and burning their lifes in social crapworks, may be even meet some friends and sooner or later they will come back to liberate the Earth from TPTB. And after full implementing ongoing TPTB plans over humanity on Earth there will be nobody on Earth to protect them from that strike back. That was completely inacceptable for them, that is why Moon program was quickly cut down, and to plant the seeds of doubt they hoaxed a hoax with all that "stupid" and "obvious" "fuckups" . And continue to do it with all that Mars exploration and other stiff. Photoshop here, "unintentional" error there... It's easy. All that stupid flat earth larpers, etc. Manned space exploration was strictly limited to LEO, just to keep people from rising questions, like ones rised with "lost" SaturnV documentation, along with still existing docs for USSR H1.

I really don't care if Moon landing was hoax or not. It does not matter at all. I just know that we definitely have every necessary technology to do it routinely and even without too much efforts. There are no any severe danger for human in space. All that space fearmongering about vacuum and radiation is just a bullshit to take away any hope to escape from Earth authorities. Voyage to Mars and back is the same as 2 years of working on nuclear power plant. Two day Moon tour is not very different from a dosen transatlantic flights. Pressure difference between cabin and space is just 1 bar. Any commercial jet could easily withstand that difference without any problems. When you fly on passanger jet to other town, on 30000 feet, it is just 0.25 of atmosphere just on the other side of window you bury your nose into during flight. It's 0.75 bar pressure difference. You will not notice anything if that difference become 1 bar. Like in space.

You can track the ISS with a telescope

good. Why does the ISS (with humans on it) never go above low Earth Orbit?