Yesterday was the 35th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon. The tin-foil hat set thinks this was all a hoax, that the Apollo 1 fire set us back so much that we were unable to meet JFK's dream of making it to the moon before the decade was out, but making us unable to beat the Soviets as well. If beating the Soviets was the goal, then why, pray tell, would we attempt to go back SIX MORE TIMES? (Actually landing five more times.) And I heard that each mission cost $900 million, in 1969 dollars, so that would be... an ass-load of money now. Seven missions (not including the four manned practice runs, two of which actually orbited the moon) at $900 million each, that would be $6.3 billion, in 1969 dollars. If we faked it all, where did that money go?