There was an attempt made to get to the moon which ended in the late 60s as people realized it would be impossible, and the decision was made to fake it to save face. Instead, the missions were filmed with extremely sophisticated simulators built for training for the real mission. The radiation environment halfway between the Earth and the Moon is highly hazardous. The constant background radiation from galactic cosmic rays is 2-4 times higher than what astronauts experience on the ISS and hundreds of times higher than on Earth. This poses a significant health risk. Finally, it is obvious that the lunar lander is a complete joke if you look closely. The longer you look the worse it gets. The builders of the second lunar lander scrapped large amounts of documentation and the lander itself because they "needed warehouse space." One of the most important tools used in one of the most important achievements in human history was scrapped "to make room in a warehouse." Please. I am hopeful that one day SpaceX will land the first man on the moon. It will be very painful because they can't claim to be the actual first people on the moon without tremendous reputational damage to the United States.