Russian Official Smirks About US Moon Landings

Dmitry Rogozin says Russia will verify them
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Nov 24, 2018 3:30 PM CST
Russia: We'll Verify US Moon Landings
In this file photo from June 6, 2018, Roscosmos state space corporation head Dmitry Rogozin, accompanies new International Space Station crew members, to the rocket prior to the launch at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.   (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, Pool Photo via AP, File)

The head of Russia's Roscosmos space agency has said that a proposed Russian mission to the moon will be tasked with verifying that the American moon landings were real, though he appeared to be making a joke, the AP reports. "We have set this objective to fly and verify whether they've been there or not," says Dmitry Rogozin in a video posted Saturday on Twitter. Rogozin was responding to a question about whether or not NASA actually landed on the moon nearly 50 years ago.

He appeared to be joking, as he smirked and shrugged while answering. But conspiracies surrounding NASA's moon missions are common in Russia. The Soviet Union abandoned its lunar program in the mid-1970s after four experimental moon rockets exploded. (Meanwhile, the Kepler telescope is dead.)

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