Having read with interest the debate regarding the ‘fake moon landings’, I personally have seen the radar Doppler shift trace of the lunar module Eagle as it landed on the moon that evening as recorded by the Jodrell Bank telescope.
So, are we to discredit our own scientists as being part of the ‘conspiracy’ too?
We can debate until the cows come home, or fly over the moon for that matter, whether man actually set foot on the moon but there is no doubt that a craft landed on the moon in the Sea of Tranquility that night, as confirmed by Jodrell Bank.
If we are to believe these pathetic ‘fake’ theories, then we must also not believe that Apollo 13 happened or any other Apollo mission for that matter.
If you dismiss the moon landing then you must also dismiss the whole Apollo programme as a hoax.
If you did not live through the Cold War, in particular the Cuban missile crisis, then you will have no idea how much space superiority meant to both Russia and America from a military point of view.
It had nothing to do with space exploration at that time. When Russia first launched Sputnik into Earth orbit, the mere thought that a potential enemy orbiting craft could carry a nuclear device was enough to generate the utmost fear in the hearts of the Americans.
The very fact that Russia had the technology and rocket power to also put a man into space before the Americans rang huge alarm bells in the State Department and no expense would be spared in regaining America’s superiority, again from a military point of view.
However, the one point that is always overlooked in this whole debate is that the Russians themselves have never disputed that America put a man on the moon.
If they could have done at that time, can you imagine the propaganda coup this would have provoked, discrediting the whole American space programme at a time when they were behind the Americans in the space race?
Are you telling me ‘fakers’, that with all their resources, the Russians were not monitoring every second of Apollo 11?
Derek Rogers
Buckley