(Yes, of course I know that's not the Enterprise-D and that TNG came out in 1986, but you try making a better debunking joke.)
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There are definitely conspiracies that have happened in the US that have stayed (officially) sealed for decades at a time. There's also no shortage of (unofficial) leaks and Deep-Throat style informants willing to sell you a story about the moon landing being a hoax.
I wouldn't say the problem is that nobody squealed. I'd say the problem is that folks who claim they were in the room when Kubrick shot the B-roll for the moon landing from a Hollywood sound stage are not sources that stand up to prolonged interrogation.
I've heard of it. Mars instead of the Moon. An interesting premise.
I'm also partial to For All Mankind as a "What If" of the US and Soviets continuing the space race for another forty years. Both explore interesting concepts about the intersection of politics and space exploration.
For sure.
Stuff can be kept secret, it's just difficult, and is usually accomplished via all sorts of obfuscation.
Like doing something layered deep within something else, making it appear to be a day-to-event (hiding materiel in containers labeled as something else, making it weigh and move normally, then having military deliver it as usual, because who would think these drums of fuel are actually heavy water, or something like that).
The moon landings were live. Quite a bit harder, I'd think.
That is, again, a thing skeptics will dispute for this or that reason.
But that's the thing with conspiracy theorists and skeptics. Ask a flat earther how you get live images from space and they'll just tell you "We don't, its fake".