Alright, we're going to fake the Moon landing. The first thing that we have to do is build a massive rocket so, when people ask, "How did you get to the Moon." we can say, "We used that massive rocket." We're also going to have to make it launchable because hundreds of people will be watching in person.
Then, we'll have to fabricate the actual Moon walks. So, instead of feeding three astronauts for a week, we'll cater a full film crew.
We'll hire Stanley Kubrick to film the thing because the Moon scenes in 2001 looked so real and we'll give him the Zeiss 0.7 lens to film Barry Lyndon that we commissioned to photograph the Moon landing that we never accomplished.
It'll look like the astronauts are bouncing around in low gravity by overcranking the camera. Of course, we'll do that by creating video technology that the rest of the world didn't have for a few more decades; or, we'll use a film mag the size of a Volkswagen.
We'll also pay off all of the navy officers who recovered the astronauts in the ocean after we staged the capsule returning from space and splashing in the ocean.
Or...maybe we just went to the Moon.