Moonsisters How Well Do You Know

1 of the world's best-known conspiracy theories - that the Apollo 11 Moon landing was staged - remains very popular in Russian federation, (you can't even imagine how much). Some Russians are even donating money in the hopes of 'proving' this theory.

"Ane small step for man, one behemothic leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong's famous phrase, which he said on the Moon, marked the start of a new era, with humans for the starting time going across the boundaries of our planet and landing on another angelic body. That was in distant 1969.

Today, nosotros dream of Mars-landing missions, and read almost leaks from a hugger-mugger Martian conference held by Elon Musk. But you know what? Decades since 1969, many Russians are still unable to believe in that "small stride" that Armstrong took on the Moon. True, the then-chosen 'lunar conspiracy' was invented in the U.S., merely no other country in the world has then fully embraced this indestructible conspiracy theory equally Russian federation. Many Russians believe that the U.Southward. government staged a complex hoax, and that the declared Moon landing was in fact filmed in Hollywood. At the moment, this myth is NOT believed by - brace yourself - only 24 percent of Russians!

1990s fake news

This was not always the example. In the Soviet Union, in that landmark year of 1969, no one - neither officials, nor the media - doubted the accomplishment of the American astronauts.

"When we were receiving signals from the Moon, we were receiving them from the Moon, not from Hollywood," said Russian cosmonaut Georgy Grechko, a member in the Soviet lunar plan, which was canceled later on the Apollo eight mission for the beginning time orbited the Moon. At the time, all Soviet reconnaissance systems were watching the get-go manned flying to the Moon. Soviet radio equipment was receiving signals from Apollo 11, as well as all its audio communications and the TV footage of the landing itself.

"Staging a hoax like that would have perhaps been just as difficult as carrying out the real mission," another cosmonaut and space shuttle designer, Konstantin Feoktistov, concluded in his book,The Trajectory of Life. It would have been necessary first to send a television station to the Moon, so send Apollo eleven a responder. And create dozens of sham factories manufacturing spacecraft. And stage the render to Earth ... It is all too complicated. Even for a space race betwixt the two superpowers.

By the late 1990s, withal, the world-famous 'lunar conspiracy' reached Russia where it gained a lot of followers. Contemporaries aspect it to the fact that the new and fragile Russia was in dire demand of pseudo-patriotic concepts, such equally the notion that the Americans had deceived everyone, including the Soviet Marriage, which was always the commencement in everything. This is some other reason why the 'lunar conspiracy' still holds sway amidst many Russians.

'Great American lie'

The Russian embrace of this conspiracy theory dates to the publication of Yury Mukhin's book,Anti-Apollo: Lunar Scam of the United states of america. The author claims that money allocated for the lunar program was allegedly stolen, while the lunar landing scenes were shot by Stanley Kubrick, the manager behind the cult film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Moreover, according to Mukhin, Soviet communists and some Soviet scientists were function of the conspiracy, for the sake of sure profits, of class.

Just the 'the peachy American lie' would inappreciably have gained so much currency in Russia had it not found support amidst more reputable individuals and the media.

Astronaut John Young, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon near the leg of the Lunar Module (LM) 'Eagle' during the Apollo eleven exravehicular activity.

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Journalist Alexander Gordon made 2 documentaries about the 'lunar conspiracy'. In 2007, the scientific journalTopical Problems of Modernistic Sciencepublished an article 'proving' that at the speed it was flight the U.S. rocket could not accept reached the Moon. Or, here is another: in 2018, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space bureau, Roscosmos, announced that Russia was preparing a Moon mission: among other things, with the following purpose. "Nosotros have ready the job of flying there to check whether they [the Americans] were there or not <...> They say they were, we will check."

All this is happening despite the fact that the Russian Academy of Sciences has officially condemned the 'lunar conspiracy' as pseudoscience, and Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed it every bit "nonsense."

Prove goes on

Judging by opinion polls, 65 percent of people who believe that the 1969 Moon landing never happened have only a secondary school education. Interestingly, the desire to institute the 'truth' goes far beyond ordinary curiosity: some Russians are even prepared to donate their own money for the crusade.

In 2015, a collection was started on the crowdfunding platform, Boomstarter, to build a micro-satellite with a camera to verify the Apollo eleven landing site. It was launched by a blogger fascinated by space. The target was 800,000 rubles ($12,000), only the bodily sum raised was more than twice greater.

Who are these people? Some are those who still accept part in endless discussions on online conspiracy theory forums; believe me, there are a lot of them. And those who write comments such every bit this 1: "If yous think the Americans are charlatans, I agree... There is a lot of proof for this. For example, there is something wrong with the footprint [presumably, Armstrong's], or the flag is not flapping right, then on. For case, Rammstein's America video is proof of that, or the GTA Vice City game - there is a movie attack an island somewhere and there, in a domed edifice, there is artificial lunar rock, and reportedly this is where they filmed the Moon landing."

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