OK, so the book is wrong. You obviously have internet access and could have done a little research and found that out for your self. Google is your friend. You could have at least TRIED to verify your sources.
As to the overwhelming evidence, I just don't see it. I've already discredited pretty much all the "evidence" you have presented. I've presented corrected facts, and offered innocent explanations for the other suppositions you have made. Occam's Razor supports the simple, innocent reason behind the photo editing over a massive conspiracy.
I'm not trying to prove that man did land on the moon, I really don't know. I have no first hand evidence either way. I have simply pointed out that your "evidence" is not backed by any real facts, and in many cases is contrary to the known facts and science behind spaceflight. In other words, you have completely failed to make your case. you make far to many assumptions. You assume that because the photo's were edited, they were faked, when the simpler, more logical assumption is that they were edited for ascetic purposes the same way that every other photo on the web is. After all, film photo's don't transfer to the electronic medium very well without some "adjusting". The primary colors in film are Red, Blue and Yellow: the primary colors on a computer display are Red, Blue and Green.
The Bochum Observatory in Germany provides independant (not associate with NASA or the US government) evidence supporting moon landings. This evidence includes recordings of the radio transmissions from the Apollo spacecrafts, complete with directional gain antenna tracking and Doppler shift tracking showing the transmissions originated from the correct locations.
Here are some links to further your research efforts:
http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/bochum/main.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings
(as the above is a wikipedia link, a certain skeptisism is understandable, even advisable)
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/s..._astronomers_produce_original_Apollo_TV_tapes.
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html
http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/bochum/index.html
(this one has links to recordings made at Bochum about halfway down the page)
You have provided no real evidence to support your position, only suppositions clearly based on a preconception that the landings were faked. You claim that a "trans lunar orbit" is impossible, but provide no sciencetific facts that supprot that. You claim that cosmic radiation makes a moon trip impossibe, but your only "evidence" is an excerpt (taken out of context) from a NASA scientist trying to expain the difficulties in a 16 month (each way) Mars trip, not a 10 day moon trip.
The fact that the photo's could have been faked does not mean that they were - that would be an assumption based on faulty logic. Infact, several people have made "fake" photo's to see if the "you shouldn't be able to see that because it's in a shadow" argument is valid. Without exception these tests have shown that the phoros could be real.
In short, there is absolutely no HARD scientific evidence to support a hoax theory. Every argument the conspiracy theory people such as yourself has presented has been shown to be a "maybe" at best.
Here's a link to a site that test the "conspiracy theory's" arguments (including test's done by TV's Mythbusters.)
http://www.clavius.org/
In summation, the fact that the moon landings could have been faked does NOT prove that they were, any more than the fact that they could have been real proves they were. We can only rely on the actual evidence provideded by independant sources such as Bochum Observatory, and the evidence leans quite heavily towards the landing being real.
Also, I find it rather suspect that you have provided no personal credentials to show that you have a sufficient scientific background to have a valid opinion on this matter to begin with. What college degrees do you have in Science, Math, Physics, or Astronomy? What experience do you have that makes you qualified to even make an educated guess?
dozens of actual scientists (who aren't in any way associated with NASA or the Space Program) have consistantly shot down EVERY piece of so-called "evidence" presented by the conpiracy theorists such as yourself. Why should I believe you (when you've clearly demonstrated a lack of scientific knowelege concerning spacflight in general) over them?
A rational person would open themselves up to the possibility that the moon landings could have actually happened.