The former head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency expressed scepticism on the validity of the U.S. Apollo 11 mission’s 1969 Moon landing, stating he had not yet seen convincing evidence.
“The former head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, has expressed doubt that the U.S. 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, 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 U.S. 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.
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| Apollo 11 Lunar Module |
The flight was preceded by the unmanned Soviet Luna 2 program, which blazed the trail for Moon exploration”. -New Zealand Daily Telegraph
Dmitry Rogozin is far from the first foreign national to call out the United States’ fraudulent lunar landings.
“The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood.
Rijksmuseum spokeswoman Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation that proved the piece was a fake, said the museum will keep it anyway as a curiosity.
‘It's a good story, with some questions that are still unanswered’, she said. ‘We can laugh about it’.
The museum acquired the rock after the death of former Prime Minister Willem Drees in 1988. Drees received it as a private gift on October 9th, 1969, from then-U.S. ambassador J. William Middendorf during a visit by the three Apollo 11 astronauts, part of their ‘Giant Leap’ goodwill tour after the first moon landing.
Middendorf, who lives in Rhode Island, told Dutch broadcaster NOS news that he had gotten it from the U.S. State Department, but couldn't recall the exact details.
‘I do remember that (Drees) was very interested in the little piece of stone’, the NOS quoted Middendorf as saying. ‘But that it's not real, I don't know anything about that’.
The U.S. Embassy in the Hague said it was investigating the matter.
The museum had vetted the moon rock with a phone call to NASA, Van Gelder said.
She said the space agency told the museum then that it was possible the Netherlands had received a rock: NASA gave moon rocks to more than a hundred countries in the early 1970s, but those were from later missions.
‘Apparently no one thought to doubt it, since it came from the prime minister's collection’, Van Gelder said”. -Toby Sterling, Associated Press
Considering how NASA admitted in 2006 that no one could find the original video recordings of the July 20th, 1969, Apollo mission and that it destroyed all of the technology from the 1960s and it can’t recover or replicate any of it, it seems more than likely that NASA has deceived the American public over the true nature of its supposed space program throughout the decades.