Russia proposed a mission to the Moon that will be in charge of verifying if the landings of the Americans were real, said the head of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency.
“We have established this goal to fly and verify whether they were there or not ,” Dmitry Rogozin said in a video posted on Twitter on Saturday.
Отвечаю на вопросы президента Молдавии: были ли американцы на Луне, зачем у @roscosmos есть истребители и трамваи и как российская космонавтика поможет молдавскому винограду?https://t.co/IRV3HUT6Sz
— ROGOZIN (@Rogozin) November 24, 2018
Rogozin answered a question about whether NASA actually came to the moon almost 50 years ago or not. The official seemed to be joking while smiling and shrugged when answering. But conspiracies concerning NASA’s lunar missions are common in Russia.
The extinct Soviet Union abandoned its lunar program in the mid-1970s after the explosion of four experimental lunar rockets.
In 2015, an exvozer of the Russian Research Committee asked to open an investigation on the American landings.
