Maybe he knows something we can only guess at ... the Apollo program did stop rather abruptly for no logical reason ... you got to wonder what it is about ‘going into space’ that would scare that sort of fellow.
Apollo “stopped abruptly” because Congress and the Nixon administration shut off the money. NASA had mission plans for moon landings up to Apollo 20, and other stuff they wanted to do with Apollo hardware, like a Venus flyby. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.