[elcid1970]

Do any of the hoax-believers even realize just how loudly the Soviets would have been screaming “HOAX!!!!” if that’s what it was!!?

Russian astronomers & satellite info instead told the Politburo the bad news that the Americans had beaten them in the race to the moon, and that U.S. astronauts had “boots on the ground” on the lunar surface.

Honestly, what some people will insist on believing in.

[PIF]

“Russian astronomers & satellite info instead told the Politburo the bad news”

More to the point, Russian mil voice, data, and image intercepts told them the bad news. Russian ELINT ships and subs were there when they went up and when they came down. Recorded, tracked, translated, and analyzed every step of the way. There was no doubt.

Russian satellites looked down, not up. No one in the Politburo cared what some astronomers claimed.

However, Russia could have easily duplicated the feat, but did not for other classified reasons.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Back in 1968, SCIENCE AND MECHANICS magazine had a series of articles “disproving” Russia’s first orbiting the earth.

They were not a good source for Science Their Mechanics were OK.

[21twelve]

Some of their ideas of lighting, etc. made sense in some ways. To make sense of it, and knowing that the moon landings were real, I wondered if SOME photos WERE from a stage lot somewhere to give a nice, clear, well arranged “promo” image useful for propaganda.

Sounds like that idea has been disproved by this new technology.