@mark noble,
I do not believe man ever set foot on the moon, no. The Lunar Landing Module is a farce at first glance. Photos of same reveal no disturbance of the moon dust beneath the Lander, despite the need for thousands of pounds of thrust to land the craft safely. Yet we know this dust is there, because of the famous footprint in same, right? We also know the thrust blows stuff around because Buzz Aldren once said the first flag was planted too close to the craft and was blown over when they left. Subsequent flags were, supposedly, planted further away from the craft. One of these facts has to be a bald faced lie. (I can't know whether or not the landing was faked; but I am quite confident that the pictures were at the very least.)
So now that we know they lied we must ask ourselves; why does every government entity (including NASA) contemplating a
return to the moon predict it will take 2 decades to accomplish? Why would that be the case when half a century ago the deed was accomplished in well under a decade using less computing power than I carry in my pocket?