If the Moon landings had been a hoax, it’s hard to see how they could have fooled the USSR (which presumably had telescopes good enough to see the actual site), nor why the Soviets would have played along. In general, a conspiracy theory has to hypothesize that everyone who’d be capable of noticing is in on the conspiracy, which gets pretty silly pretty quickly for the bigger ones.
If the Moon landings had been a hoax, it’s hard to see how they could have fooled the USSR (which presumably had telescopes good enough to see the actual site), nor why the Soviets would have played along. In general, a conspiracy theory has to hypothesize that everyone who’d be capable of noticing is in on the conspiracy, which gets pretty silly pretty quickly for the bigger ones.