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I will add that, from a purely OpSec point of view, there's no reason to give away military secrets for a photo op. If the government truly did accomplish moon travel then giving a true photo of the event is begging your enemies and rivals to copy you, even improve on it, and btfo any advantage you had.

You can see this today in the Ukraine war where they try to scrub or blur out details from images of missiles that would give away what specific model or technology they use. They don't alway do a good job at that but it's a constant consideration.

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