DID we get to the Moon?

Will I?
As Carl Spackler once said quoting the Dali Llama,
"When you die, on your Deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that going for me, which is nice"

I just want the answer to, "Did we make it to the Moon?" I don’t think we did, and it’s not any type of conspiracy theory crap others subscribe to. I will tell you the reasons for my questioning it in the first place.

1. We cannot get out of the Atmosphere with the current Billions of dollars spent on the new Space Vehicle Technology. We were able to accomplish this back in the late 60s and early 70s with technology from the 1950s. I am taking a stab at the fact that not a lot has changed with the time frame of using current technology. We develop something, test the crap out of it (about 10 years), and then deploy it. From what I’ve always understood, we don’t abandon Technology that works, we expand on it.

2. Why haven’t we been back, if we were able to get there 18 times back then? 6 of those Landings were manned missions (allegedly). If we were able to explore, perform tests, bring back samples and the like, then why not go back for more? We certainly could not have gotten everything we would like to have discovered done in 6 manned missions. We know whats in the Antarctic too, but we have a research station that we continue to send scientists to, and they continue performing research studies.

3. We cannot get a Wireless company to carry a phone call across town that does not break up or drop off totally. You expect us to believe they had the Technology to transmit not only voice (real time) back and forth, but Video too? This was in the 60s, why have we not improved on this?

4. Why would we spend trillions on the International Space Station, Not just the U.S. but like 5 other countries as well, that sits in the middle of space or in Low Earths Orbit? Would’t it make more sense to build that Station on the Moon? Where it could work as a Staging station to get to further planets? Say Mars? Maybe it’s out of the way. But a Space Station in the Middle of Space, where couldn't a piece of debris or a meteor the size of a dime turn that thing into a billion pieces of Space junk? Could it possibly eliminate any future space travel in that area safely? It just doesn’t make sense to me.

5. Don’t you think we would have pictures of crap we left behind on the Moon taken by Telescopes here on Earth? I’ve never seen any, haven’t heard of anyone looking at the Moon and saying, Hey look! there is the Land Rover the Astronauts left behind. Looks like it has a flat. And that Flag looks pretty tattered they left flying there after they hit a golf Ball into Space. Which brings up another question, if they had to eat Tang from a Ketchup Packet to save space, who the hell let him on that Rocket with a Golf Club?

These are just some of the reasons I don’t believe we ever made it to the Moon. I guess there are many people who do believe it. But hey that’s their prerogative and no I don’t laugh at them for believing so. It’s all good.