I also am a history major and my first question (when I began to take it seriously) was "just how MANY people who are alive today would have to know to keep this SECRET of SECRETS. Well the ONLY people to actually go up in space are NASA astronauts. And there is presumably one or more handlers for the astronauts. And maybe their bosses. That's still just a handful of people. (100-1000? out of 6 billion.)  An airplane pilot or navigator before a cartain date (1990's before everything became "automated" with "GPS") might have figured out that SOMETHING wasn't right, but who'd he tell? (Remember how they treated the first UFO spotting pilots?) Now as far as the world's governmtnts etc. being told I don't know. A small group (like say the Jesuit hierarchy) could have kept that secret until well into last century. Once people started exploring Antartica and once we started launching rockets then I am sure the secret was shared with the powers that be if not before. The "WHY" is easy:  CONTROL. How many of us have been waiting for the "star trek" world to become a reality? We have been pretty much distracted from reality. If you really think about it nothing has changed only your outlook. And now that you (are beginning to) see the truth you can start to ask the right questions in life. It's amazing to just go outside and look at the sun and/or moon.............