If it were to be a hoax it was bigger than NASA.
Australia was facing the moon at the time of touch-down, so it was our radio-telescope that received the images, and then relayed them to the States.
Apparently the relay lag was used for the kill-switch...if it all went 'bad', then the transmission was to be cut to the US and the public would be spared the horrors, though apparently Australia got it without the 7 second delay so we'd have been privy to the result, good or bad....
I always thought that when the first hoax 'theory' was bandied about it was as a promo for the Movie....bit of free publicity.....but if people are calling it a hoax now, in another hundred years there will have been enough time for the bull-shit quota to get high enough to discount all sorts of things....Hitler was a Jew....but the Jews fealt un appreciated so they took it upon themselves to self-immolate for public sympathy.
Elvis was an advertising ploy to get kids' minds off drugs...he didn't exist....or he
IS that guy in the Burger Joint....you know, the fat one in the White flared jump-suit....and kangaroos are in fact just mice photographed with a zoom lens.....I could go on, but I won't...
