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Americans really landed on the
Moon – Roscosmos
The key piece of evidence, according to Yuri Borisov, are
the lunar soil samples shared with Soviet scientists
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 mission commander, at the modular equipment storage
assembly (MESA) of the Lunar Module Eagle on the historic first extravehicular activity (EVA) on
the moon, July 20, 1969 © HUM Images / Universal Images Group via Getty Images
The head of the
Russian space
agency has
weighed in on
the decadeslong conspiracy
debate, noting
that there are
no doubts that
soil samples
retrieved by
Americans
during their
Apollo missions
actually came
from the Moon.
The
Roscosmos
chief was questioned about whether American astronauts had actually landed on the
Moon during a parliamentary session on Wednesday. The key piece of evidence that the
Apollo missions were real, according to Borisov, is the fact that back then NASA shared
soil samples from several manned flights with its Soviet colleagues.
“According to the expertise of our Academy of Sciences, the lunar soil turned out to be
lunar indeed,” Borisov reassured lawmakers, insisting that the samples were studied in
labs of many countries, not just the USSR, and it’s definitely not from this planet.
The previous head of Russia’s space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, was far
more skeptical about the Apollo missions, saying that while many in Roscosmos
defended Washington’s version of events, no conclusive proof was ever presented to
him. According to Rogozin, several unnamed academics even angrily criticized him for
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complicating international relations and
undermining the “sacred cooperation with
NASA.”
Despite all the US missions being closely
monitored by its space rival, the USSR, at
the time, skeptics have been questioning
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the authenticity of the Apollo program
landing since 1972
ever since astronaut Neil Armstrong put
his feet on the Moon on July 21, 1969.
Theorists claim that the Moon landings
were actually staged by NASA, which needed to quickly respond to the Soviets after
they sent the first man, Yury Gagarin, into space on April 12, 1961.
Many of the arguments of conspiracy theorists have been debunked over the years, but
between 5 and 20 percent of Americans still believe their country’s lunar program to be
nothing but a hoax, according to various polls.
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on moon – Ex-Russian space boss
As for Russia, a survey by the Public
Opinion Research Center (WCIOM) found
back in 2020 that almost fifty percent of
Russians think that the US
government “falsified” the Apollo
expeditions, with just 31 percent
absolutely sure that American astronauts
actually walked on the surface of Earth’s
satellite.
The US stopped sending landers on the
Moon after the Apollo 17 mission concluded in December 1972.
Earlier this year, a US-made spacecraft touched down on the Moon for the first time in
more than a half-century, marking what NASA Administrator Bill Nelson called “the US
return to the Moon.” However, NASA’s Artemis program has suffered numerous delays
over the years, with the return of American astronauts on the Moon now expected no
earlier than 2026.
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