Said I was going to pull it down from the shelf earlier,when I commented on the Russia/China nexus on the moon landing. Time will tell if it transpires. This author is not buying what NASA is saying...

...The NASA space program to put men on the Moon was supposedly an unclassified, civilian effort. However, evidence will be provided throughout this book that the military had almost complete control over it and that many of the NASA findings were withheld from the public.

The history of rocket development and early satellite efforts will now be reviewed to show the military's involvement in the space program and events leading to the creation of NASA. Germany developed the V-2 rocket and used it with limited success against England toward the end of World War II. The United States acquired the majority of German rocket scientists and engineers, including Wernher von Braun, and most of Germany's rocket hardware. Russia also managed to obtain German rocket personnel and pursued the technological development of rockets with great enthusiasm and success. The postwar years ushered in the "cold war" and the threat of nuclear war by the superpowers. The rocket was then developed to its high level of sophistication to carry nuclear bombs to strategic targets thousands of miles away. Typically, the threat of annihilation seems to be the greatest stimulus to expend large dollar amounts on research and development, and the rocket was no exception.
https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2021/02/part-1-moongate-nasamilitary-cover.html