Quote from: SarahM777 on November 25, 2011, 11:05:36 PM
But factor in a very small but very important fact that must be overlooked for the "cover up" to work. Going back to Apollo 8,9 and 10 all three had orbited the moon. Apollo 8 was very late 1968. Now if any of these missions could NOT get out of a low level orbit the Soviets would have know it as they were also able to track space flights. It means the Soviets were in on the cover up and why would they have never said anything if they could have used it to their advantage and embarrassed the Americans with the "facts"?
Add to that that there were not 1 but 5 moon landings (6 launches but Apollo 13 never made it) What do you do with 5 sets of lunar modules and lunar landers. If they are not launched with the space flight it throws the flight off as you have to factor in the weight change and where did they go? And if they did go up it means that they were jettisoned sometime during orbit and there should have been debris from at least one of the sets.
Here is what Wisnewski has to say about America's silence over Gagarin's rather dubious flight.
" No one talks about this now, but in those early days there were many doubts. The American press looked askance at cosmonaut Gagarin's flight.
But although the American government had eyes with which it could have read the signs, it did not do so...And of course it had its own experts who must have
analysed Gagarin's flight. But nothing happened. One reason for this may have been the huge prestige invested by the Soviet Union in the flight.
The Soviet leadership had embraced and kissed the cosmonaut en masse in Red Square. For America to cast doubt on the flight would thus have been at least
an unfriendly act, if not a downright inimical one.
Another reason might have been that the USA would have presented itself to the world as a sore loser. A dispute about the flight would have been an argument with no
clear outcome. So why not instead use it to build up one's own potential? To acknowledge the flight meant giving the go ahead for its own enormous space
programme from which both the military and industry would gain financially for years to come. "
Wisnewski 2007, p.49
From this you can see why the Soviets said nothing about the moon landings.