The moon

NASA was at first incorrect about the distance of the moon as it turns out it is only about 4 miles away. Did NASA relay think that you could see 238,900 miles. They failed to take into account multiple sight limiting factors and they were judging how far the moon is out by the clarity of the moon looking from earth. You see space is not empty like you might believe it is  mostly empty  now there is a key difference between empty and mostly empty see 238,900 miles is a super long way and if there is just a little bit of dust it will cloud the view from this long long distance because the dust adds up though the light of stars shines through the dust because of the amount of light. the light of the sun while it does light up the moon it just is not enough to shine through 238,900 miles of dust. Now you might be asking yourself why has NASA not told us this well that would be because of a financial trouble due to spacex. Yous see spacex is the new cool thing as far as space goes all of the donating going to NASA is now going to spacex and even some of the government funds so NASA had to delete there website and they are unable to get info out to the public.