The former head of Russia ’s space corp Roscosmos and renowned raver , Dmitry Rogozin , has taken clip out from the invasion of Ukraine to portion out some cabal theory about the US Moon landings .
The ever - provocative politiciantook to Telegramto claim he asked for prescribed substantiation of the NASAMoon landings in 1969when he was deputy prime minister of religion of Russia , but he apparently only received a copy of a book by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov .
When President Vladimir Putin pass on him the top position at Roscosmos in 2018 , he asked again and was criminate of undermining the “ sanctified cooperation with NASA . ”
“ I also received one angry call from a luxuriously - ranking official accuse me of ‘ exasperate the international situation ’ with my doubts , ” he enjoin .
“ It was not clear to me how the United States , at that grade of technological developing of the ' 60s of the last C , did what they still can not do now ? "
Apoll in 2020found that almost half of Russians believe the 1969 lunar landing were a hoax organise by the US government . This is despite theoverwhelming evidencethat show the Moon landings were n’t faked .
Rogozin is a ill-famed troll with an interesting view of realness , infamous for spouting outlandish statements plan to hassle and confuse .
In 2018 , Rogozin answer to the discovery of phosphine in the upper atmosphere of Venusby suggestingthat the planet was , in fact , the place of Russia .
“ We believe that Venus is a Russian satellite . Our country was the first and only one to successfully land on Venus , ” he said .
In response to sanctions that followed the Russian invasion of Ukraine , Rogozin maderepeated threatsthat Russia would take out out from the International Space Station ( ISS ) , which he suggested could result in a venomous clangour landing over the US , Europe , China , and India – but not Russia .
Heeven threatenedto divide the Russian modules of the ISS and go away US spaceman Mark T. Vande Hei stranded in blank . However , like many of his provocations , this turned out to be a vacuous threat , and Roscosmos hurry to assure their international partnersno one would be left behind .
Rogozin was send away from this position at Roscosmos in July 2022 and has since spent most of his time fanning the flame of the Russian invasion of Ukraine . In a since - remove Tweet , he said Russian needs to put “ an end ” to Ukraine “ once and for all . ” He added : “ Ukraine is an experiential threat to the Russian people , Russian history , Russian language , and Russian civilization . ”
While his latest admission may seem like a bombshell revelation coming from the former head of a prominent space geographic expedition system , it would be goosy to take anything he says at face value .
