Everyone I know of my age watched it as schoolkids exempted from lessons, to watch it on a huge screen in school assembly. It affected some of us so much we spent much of our early lives having ambition as astronauts, or at least inventors and Engineers.
I am lucky enough to have achieved the latter, and even worked on satellite programs, working orbital trajectories and such things, sometimes in consultation with NASA.
I never had cause to doubt any of it, until learning the scale of lies that can be told, that hoodwinked whole populations into war.
We even started putting actors into positions of power, because they put on so much of a more convincing show.
Now, unfortunately, we can't trust anything we thought we knew, unless we see physical proof first hand with our own eyes. Effectively there is an anarchy of thought in the population of all people, and I don't really see that as a bad thing, because we see the established system is broken, we are surely much more ready to see how to fix it.
On physical proof, your reference linked to the assertion that proof can be seen with amateur telescope equipment contains no information on such equipment, or capabilities of such.
My grandfather, claiming to have seen UFOs in 1938, spent his life looking for further evidence one way or another, including finally affording a large optical reflector telescope, which we took turns on, scanning the surface of the moon for visible evidence of landings using also using moon maps to identify all of the known geographic features, and we never found any signs of landings.
Maybe our telescope wasn't powerful enough, but every time I hear mention that anyone has spotted these things, I look there to see, and it disappoints to find no proof.