i'm sure it was said, i just don't remember it ever being an "official statement" on the front page of any newspapers or headline tv news.I thought they said it was faked and that it was impossible and that is why they have never went....wasn’t it also the USSR that kept pointing out how the U.S. “stopped going”??? In the past few years at least I know that Russia made the claim that “notice how the U.S. hasn’t been to the moon in almost 30 years..why don’t they go back?”
i'm sure it was said, i just don't remember it ever being an "official statement" on the front page of any newspapers or headline tv news. The Russkies had an unmanned, observational spacecraft
orbiting the moon at the same time as Apollo 11.
This way they could also claim a presence at the moon
during the first landing.(some feared it might be an
aggressive weapon, meant to “chase off” our landing
attempt.)
If we had not landed on the Moon, the Russians would
have known it and called us on it. They then would
have continued their project until they themselves
had landed first.
JJ61