I typically use this line but I don’t know that the Soviets had the technology to track the flight completely at the time or to verify the landing.

It is impossible to fake something has thousands of people that are "in on it" and even today thousands of scientists (and maybe everybody with a slightly better telescope/laser? Unsure) would somehow need to be part of it because you can just use a telescope to see the stuff that was left behind and the laser reflectors are being used today. There's absolutely no chance it's not real.

If you can afford the simple equipment necessary, you can literally send and receive a ping to a device left at one of the landing sites that proves without a doubt we have been there.

imo, that's why flat earth stuff usually doesn't make sense at its core. how do you explain that all those governments from around the world that hate each other all collectively agreed to lie to you

Okay, just to go full conspiracy theorist on you for a second:

The USSR could've covered USA's ass on this because their own achievements were fake too, and they didn't want it to come out

I don't have any evidence for this, nor do I believe it myself, but just playing devil's advocate here

That was a cool read

Not quite true, there is one single panda they don't own, Xin Xin at the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City.

I've seen some recent news about China gifting Brazil a panda in a diplomatic move. So, they don't own all pandas, or wasn't it really a gift?