I strongly disagree that any gov' or nation should go an explore or conquer other planets or space itself alone. it should be jointly without any classified information.
Cuz clearly the hubble would have proven if there's a u.s. flag or not on the moon.
I really hate that we have such a powerful tool and we get to see whut they want us to see.
The Hubble space telescope does not have the hability to see what is on the moon. Without going into a heavy optics discussion, the focal length of the hubble telescope is set at infinite (or near infinite), to have the best possible image from objects far in the galaxy and beyond (and this is what they corrected on Hubble when it was found that its main mirror was mishapen, making it "short-sighted). Conversely, to have a good resolution at a relative short distance, you need a specific focal lenght - just like a camera. To take a picture of something close, your focus is adjusted differently than if you shoot something far away.
Keeping that in mind, remember that what the humans left on the moon is pretty small to begin with. It is like finding a sole tent in the middle of the desert - hard to do with a satelite, contrary to what the movies will tell you. Hubble is closely related to the KH-series spy satellite, but even these are made to operate at a short distance from their target - earth orbit, a few hundred kms at the most. The moon is several hundred of thousands of kilometer away - no way in hell they could have picked up trace of human presence on the surface of the moon with Hubble.
What always disturbed me is the way the astronauts who went to the moon came back home, a pod launching them back to space back to earth? @ that time? we need a huge tanks of fuel to hit the atmosphere and this lil pod launched a crew back to earth? a bit far fetch.
The lunar pod only had one function, take the astronaut from the surface of the Moon back into LUNAR orbit, not back to earth. Once into lunar orbit, it rendez-voued with the Command module that remained in orbit, with one astronaut aboard - and all the fuel required for the trip back to earth.
You never wondered why there were 3 astronauts but that only two actually walked on the moon at each trip?
Here is a model of the LEM/Command module vessel as it is on the way to the moon.
The cylindrical command module is the only thing that makes the trip back to earth, and even then, it ditches everything but the conical landing module that then make the splash down.