NASA's Fake Moon Missions

During the 1960s NASA faked a number of manned landings on the moon for the sake of prestige and to establish the supremacy of the United States in the area of space exploration. I am sure at the time they considered it a small white lie and were convinced they would actually be able to go to the moon within a few years. But now, more than fifty years later, NASA is still unable to go to the moon and they promise us: "Perhaps we will have the technology to go to the moon in twenty years time..."