Evan Burton Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 When Vitaly Yegorov watched in awe as NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars three years ago, he never could have imagined his fascination with space would one day lead to the genesis of his own satellite — and a 1 million ruble campaign to dispel a popular Russian conspiracy theory that the U.S. moon landings were faked. Yegorov, 33, a Moscow-based PR specialist, proposed building a satellite to go into lunar orbit and take high-resolution photographs of the moon’s surface to document evidence of the landing of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, as well as the Luna and Lunokhod Soviet-era space missions. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/news/article/russian-space-enthusiast-raises-1-million-rubles-to-prove-u-s-moon-landing/537264.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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