Why would faking it with a soundstage and some actors in a room, and some small models, cost so much more? A big budget Hollywood film like James Bond Moonraker (1979) was 1/1000th the cost of the Apollo program, and with no famous actors/actresses, simpler script, TV quality, surely a fake would be cheaper than that?
If someone thought it was fake, they ought to be asking where the budget really went and whose pockets it lined.
If someone thought it was fake, they ought to be asking where the budget really went and whose pockets it lined.