"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really after you."
Anonymous

Who, What, and Why?

These are valid questions. Hopefully I can explain why this conspiracy exists.

I'm not overly religious, but religion seems to be the binding factor. It seems that there are those in power who want more power. However as long as religion exists, ultimate power is unatainable. Most religions, when they describe the Earth, represent it as flat. If the people can be convinced that the Earth is not flat, then religion will be shown to be wrong.

It is not my place to say whether religion is right or wrong. This is a discussion better left for other sites, and I will not discuss it here.

You may ask how is it possible in this modern day to convince intelligent people of something that is opposite of reality. For this, it is quite simple. The average person knows only what they have been taught. Of the roughly 6 billion people on the Earth, only a handful know absolutely the positive truth.
You may well ask about the thousands of people who work at NASA, surely they know. It is entirely possible that all those screens you see in the control room are feeding simulation data. They are told that it is actual data, and have no reson to doubt it.
Have you ever wondered why, after more than thirty years that man has supposedly been going into space, we still don't have space tourism? Why it is the only civilian to board the space shuttle, Christie McAuliffe, died during launch? Why has NASA unconditionally refused to sell a seat on the shuttle to Dennis Tito?

It has been suggested that Gus Grissom died in the Apollo I fire because he had threatened to tell the media that NASA was falsifying it's mission data and had no real intent to go to the Moon. I would suggest that, if Grissom was indeed killed for fear he might "spill the beans", that it was much more he was going to tell.

While these questions and suppositions certainly don't indicate a definite conspiracy, they do cause one to wonder.

"Even paranoids have real enemies."
Delmore Schwartz