It’s already been done.
The 1995 Apollo 13 film, starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon, used highly authentic sets that fully replicated the interiors of the Command and Lunar Modules. To add more authenticity, these sets were placed inside a KC-135 airplane and flown in ballistic trajectories to give 30 seconds of film time to create real “weightlessness.” So in scenes where you see the crew and objects moving about while floating, its real.
Go three years later, and Tom Hanks, also a big space buff himself, co-produces the 1998 HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon, a docudrama on the early US space program, condensing the Mercury and Gemini programs and then diving into the Apollo moon landing project.
While FtETTM did not go fully into replicating microgravity during space scenes, they all but nailed the moonwalk scenes.
The actors wore large helium balloons that extended from their backpacks, which simulated the 1/6th Earth gravity on the moon. So when they walked, the actors had the familiar gait of the real moonwalkers.
What gives the series’ moonwalkers away is that the film couldn’t replicate a vacuum on the set. So dust plumes (which can’t happen in lunar vacuum) as well as the speed of kicked soil would appear as Earth normal.
You’ll find some moon conspiracy nuts use photos of the series’ film set to “prove” that the moon landings were faked. I won’t give these sites the satisfaction of identification here.
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