What could that verse have to do with anything?

The moon landings weren't faked. It would have taken a conspiracy involving thousands of people. Nixon was president. If it came out it would destroyed his presidency even before Watergate.

Millions of people including me saw it live on TV when the astronauts in Florida got in the rocket and blasted off. Millions saw them splash down in the Pacific and come out of the space capsule. Nobody except a few kooks thought it wasn't real.

NASA was lying? Nobody anywhere with any academic credentials believes that.