A response to "moon truthers"

... Buzz (Aldrin) set up various instruments.   One was a multi-mirror target for returning laser beams fired from Earth — laser reflectors that have been used worldwide to determine the distance to within an inch between Earth and the moon. Many universities and governments have used the Apollo laser reflectors, and if American astronauts didn’t put the laser reflectors precisely at the Apollo landing sites, what and who did? ...

I've reported for NBC News on every launch of American astronauts from Cape Canaveral — 166 to date, including the Apollo moon landings. And the arguments of the myth-believers leave me with questions: If NASA was trying to get away with a fraud, why didn’t the agency stop after one landing?  Who in his right mind would try to get away with the same lie nine times, for Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 through 17? Another question: Just how was it NASA convinced 400,000 Apollo workers, the space press corps, with solid sources located in and out of Apollo, and the Russians and the British and the Chinese who were tracking America’s nine trips to the moon to lie?

Humans would rather think the worst of themselves than the best.