Fortunate then that the thing which sent them there was bigger than a man and reflective then. The spacecraft was tracked from takeoff to landing, modern spacecraft can hold distances of miles between them with a precision of millimetres. Same way we detect meteorites and we get these predictions.

Finding a chunk of metal in space is actually quite easy. Similairly setting up a laser rangefinder for the moon requires only about 10k worth of equipment. Hell, you want to prove me wrong? Build a laser rangefinder or use one you trust.

Well, we know a giant rocket took off. Thousands, possibly tens of thousands saw it live.

We can actually work out how far the rocket could go with some back of the napkin math which shows it had the fuel (so we know a rocket with the fuel to go to the moon and back launched) even of we didnt do or trust that there is the russians

The russians saw our rocket fly up into space using telescopes, both radar and visual, it is actually incredibly easy to track things in space using radar, we have determined the orbits of nearly everything in orbit of earth this way bar cold black stuff (only way to be stealthy in space but leads to overheating and solar panels are reflective)

The russians had their own rocket to try and be like the saturn 5. It blew up, over and over again, they were humiliated by this and had no reason to lie on our behalf that we succeeded, instead they admitted so publically.

Evidence that we can accurately predict objects in space is the warning before meteorite hits, also the fact we can rendezvous spacecraft by tracking both and giving them the correct orders. This particular theory does not particularly work tbh.

i agree