Russia claims that it was a hoax and feeds conspiracy theories on the landing on the moon

WASHINGTON: According to the Pew Research Center, 7% of Americans say that Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, never landed on the moon in July 1969. In Britain, this number climbs at 52%. But in Russia, 57% of respondents consistently deny it, according to a poll of the Center for Research on Russian Public Opinion.

Genuine Russian interference

Russian President Vladimir Putin receives a briefing from Dmitry Rogozin at the Kremlin. Screen capture RT News.

This may explain why Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, recently reported that by 2030, cosmonauts would pass over the "base of tranquility" of the Moon in search of evidence that the Americans had actually planted the American flag in its fine lunar dust. one century ago.

"We set ourselves the goal of stealing and checking whether they were there or not," Rogozin told a press conference in Moldova.

The tsar of Russian space was meeting with Moldovan President Igor Dodon on the prospect of building a multinational lunar base and an orbital space station.

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He added that by 2020, Russia would deploy a new reusable spacecraft to replace its aging Soyuz fleet. The new spaceships will include a robot similar to Terminator. The controller will perform tasks deemed too dangerous for the ship's personnel.

When Americans walked on the moon

Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Apollo 11 astronaut, on the moon. Photo: NASA.

It is hard to believe that the Americans rose on the moon half a century ago to abandon it. Space pioneer Wernher von Braun saw the Apollo program as a cosmic springboard. The prelude to a possible human mission on Mars in the 1980s.

Von Braun predicted that

"Before the end of the year 2000, the first child will be born on the moon.

This notion proved to be as sterile as the surface of the moon itself.

Do not feel it

The grandfather of the Holocaust deniers, Bill Kaysing, who worked for Rocketdyne, the company that produced the F-1 engines that propelled Apollo's Saturn V rockets, freely admitted that his conspiracy theory was based solely on instinct.

As he notes in his 1976 book "We've Never Been to the Moon: The US $ 30 Billion Scam!"

"Call it an intuition, an intuition; information from a communication channel that is not well understood and mysterious … a metaphysical message. Although tenuous and ephemeral at the source, he was strong and lively in form. In short, it was a real conviction … Watergate was an outstanding example and a striking point of comparison. Here is a case of leaders presenting a face to the public while another was completely hidden; a Machiavellian duplicity that shocked many people and broke their complacency. "

It was a good idea. After all, it's "Tricky Dick" Nixon who talked about the Oval Office to Armstrong and Aldrin while the couple was on the surface of the moon … or did he do it?

President Nixon talks with astronauts on Apollo 11 on the moon. Video capture of the White House.

Unfortunately for Nixon, NASA's $ 30 billion scam did not stop Congress from writing indictments against him, forcing him to resign.

A hoax in a hoax?

William Safire, former speechwriter and columnist for The New York Times, receives President George W. Bush's Freedom Medal in 2006.

If landing on the moon was really a hoax, it was rather elaborate. In 1999, New York Times columnist and former Nixon editor William Safire revealed that he had written a speech for the president in case the Apollo 11 mission failed, with Armstrong and Aldrin dying on the moon.

"Fate has ordained that men who have gone to the moon to explore peacefully will remain on the moon to rest in peace.

"These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know there is no hope of recovery. But they also know that there is hope for humanity in their sacrifice.

"… For every human being who looks up to the moon in the coming nights, he will know that there is a corner of another world that is forever humanity."

As the memory of the landing on the moon fades from the American consciousness and our nation gives way to the future of human spaceflight to a billionaire entrepreneur smoking ganja, the praise of Safire could prove prophetic. And the people of the New World will embrace the hollow superstitions of the Old, believing that one of America's greatest achievements is a ruse.

Rest in peace, Neil and Buzz.

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Top image: Apollo astronaut on the moon. Photo: NASA