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The head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos announced that a Russian mission on the Moon would be responsible for verifying that the moon landings in the United States were real.
"We set ourselves the goal of stealing and checking whether they went there or not," Dmitry Rogozin said in a video posted on Twitter on Saturday.
Rogozin was answering a question about whether NASA actually landed on the moon nearly 50 years ago. He seemed to be joking, as he smiled and shrugged while answering. But the plots surrounding NASA's lunar missions are common in Russia.
The Soviet Union abandoned its lunar program in the mid-1970s after the explosion of four experimental lunar rockets.
In 2015, a former spokesman of the Russian investigative committee called for an investigation into the lunar landings of NASA.
While the conspiracy theory was so obscure and it regularly garnered the support of about 10% of respondents in many polls of the twentieth century, data from public opinion showed that its popularity had increased. After Fox television broadcast a special issue on the theory, the network claimed that skepticism had increased by 20%, according to The Deseret News.
A survey conducted in 2009 in Britain revealed that 25% of residents doubted the landing of the moon. In a Russian survey, 28% of respondents expressed skepticism about the US moon landing.
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