Dmitry Rogozin says that while many in Roscosmos defended Washington’s version of events, no one could produce irrefutable proof.
The former head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, has expressed doubt that the US Apollo 11 mission really landed on the Moon in 1969, saying he has yet to see conclusive proof.
In a post on his Telegram channel on Sunday, Rogozin said he began his personal quest for the truth “about ten years ago” when he was still working in the Russian government, and that he grew skeptical about whether the Americans had actually set foot on the Moon when he compared how exhausted Soviet cosmonauts looked upon returning from their flights, and how seemingly unaffected the Apollo 11 crew was by contrast.
Rogozin said he sent requests for evidence to Roscosmos at the time. All he received in response was a book featuring Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov’s account of how he talked to the American astronauts and how they told him they had been on the Moon.
The former official wrote that he continued with his efforts when he was appointed head of Roscosmos in 2018. However, according to Rogozin, no evidence was presented to him. Instead, several unnamed academics angrily criticized him for undermining the “sacred cooperation with NASA,” he claimed.
The former Roscosmos chief also said he had “received an angry phone call from a top-ranking official” who supposedly accused him of complicating international relations.
Rogozin concluded by saying he still cannot believe that the US was able to pull off the feat, but is now unable to, despite the incredible progress in technology since the late 1960s.
What he claims to have found out, however, was that Washington has “its people in [the Russian] establishment.”
Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to the Moon, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin going down in history as the first humans to walk on the lunar surface.
The flight was preceded by the unmanned Soviet Luna 2 program, which blazed the trail for Moon exploration.
Last April, President Vladimir Putin pledged to resume Russia’s lunar program.
Image credit: © NASA
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There should be evidence on the lunar surface if they did, the lunar lander exoskeleton etc, has anyone checked?
This is ridiculous! Of COURSE they went to the moon in something that looks like a lego camping tent wrapped in tin foil. The science is settled! HOW DARE YOU NOT BELIEVE IT!!!
You really think the US government and its mockingbird media would lie about something so historic at a time when it would have been strategically advantageous to do so? You really think the military and intelligence agencies would ever be so dishonest?! Please.
So what if some of the photos have obvious signs of being “touched up”, cameras were different back then. Whatever.
And stop pointing out how our technology has progressed one thousand fold; how the average teenager’s cell phone now has more computing power than all of NASA did in 1969, yet somehow our modern shuttles are incapable of achieving anything beyond low earth orbit when they could apparently travel to the moon & land & return unassisted over half a century ago. There’s definitely no inconsistency there.
Anyone who doesn’t believe in the moon landing is clearly a conspiracy whackjob. Now take your booster and go get ready for climate change, we only have ten years left!
Excellent, I have no need to add another word. Apart from job done. ✔️✔️