Posted on 06/19/2015 7:28:17 AM PDT by rickmichaels
The increasingly tense relationship between the United States and Russia might be about to face a new challenge: a Russian investigation into American moon landings.
In an op-ed published by Russian newspaper Izvestia on Tuesday, Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the government’s official Investigative Committee, argued that such an investigation could reveal new insights into the historical space journeys.
According to a translation by the Moscow Times, Markin would support an inquiry into the disappearance of original footage from the first moon landing in 1969 and the whereabouts of lunar rock, which was brought back to earth during several missions.
“We are not contending that they did not fly [to the moon], and simply made a film about it. But all of these scientific — or perhaps cultural — artifacts are part of the legacy of humanity, and their disappearance without a trace is our common loss. An investigation will reveal what happened,” Markin wrote, according to the Moscow Times translation.
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Moonbat Ruskies.
Amazing how many think the moon landing was a hoax like the movie Capricorn 1.
Good idea.
Let them waste their govt funds on kookie studies.
We do it all the time. Maybe their govt will ‘prosper’ like ours.
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Well most of the things done in space by the USSR were faked anyway
If you want to visit the nut farm.
Here you go http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3301287/posts?page=29#29
Hey Ivan - why don’t you just send a team of cosmonauts up to our old landing sites to see for yourselves??? Those old rovers run better than your Ladas even today!
Oh, yeah, I forgot. You’ve never been there.
Good movie with better score. One of the few iTunes purchases I have made.
Our government isn’t competent enough to fake a moon landing and keep it secret.
It would be easy to test. Just go there and look for the signs. It’s that “direct observation” thingy - I don’t know why scientists never thought of it.
Heck the USSR put a rover on the moon and pulled off a sample return mission, so they know the mechanics of how its done and know the Americans could and did put men there.
If their N-1 moon rocket wasn't such a miserable failure, they would have also had the horsepower to go beyond the unmanned stuff and put a cosmonaut on the moon (or at least kill a few trying).
The history of the Russian N-1 was pretty interesting. It was a battle of egos between two high-level appartchiks that sunk the Soviet moon program. I don’t recall the details, but I remember shaking my head at how stupid and petty it all was.
Wow.
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