Conspiracists and their main proposals After Kaysing, later conspiracists include (in alphabetical order): Marcus Allen – British publisher of Nexus, who said photographs of the lander would not prove that the United States put men on the Moon, and Getting to the Moon really isnt much of a problem – the Russians did that in 1959. The big problem is getting people there. He suggests that NASA sent robot missions because radiation levels in outer space would be deadly.[21] Another variant on this is the idea that NASA and its contractors did not recover quickly enough from the Apollo 1 fire, and so all the early Apollo missions were faked, with Apollos 14 or 15 being the first real mission.[22] William L. Brian – a nuclear engineer who self-published a book in 1982, Moongate: Suppressed Findings of the U.S. Space Program,[23] in which he disputes the Moons surface gravity. James M. Collier (d. 1998) – American journalist and writer, producer of the video Was It Only a Paper Moon? (1997). Milton William Cooper (1943–2001) – was an American conspiracy theorist and author. He believed that all of the Apollo missions to the Moon were actually carefully rehearsed productions that were then filmed in large sound stages.[24] James H. Fetzer – retired American philosophy professor and conspiracy theorist. On May 2, 2013, Dr. Fetzer was interviewed by Dr. Sterling Harwood. Fetzer defended his conspiracist views that all six lunar landings were hoaxes.[25] David Groves – works for Quantech Image Processing. He examined the photo of Aldrin emerging from the lander and said he can pinpoint when a spotlight was used. Using the focal length of the cameras lens and an actual boot, he allegedly calculated, using ray-tracing, that the spotlight is between 24 to 36 centimetres (9.4 to 14.2 in) to the right of the camera.[26] This matches with the sunlit part of Armstrongs spacesuit.[27] Clyde Lewis – radio talk show host.[28] Philippe Lheureux – French author of Lumières sur la Lune.[29] An English language edition was published in 2003, Moon Landings: Did NASA Lie? He said that astronauts did land on the Moon, but to stop other states from benefiting from scientific information in the real photos, NASA published fake images.[30] Yury Ignatyevich Mukhin – Russian opposition politician, publicist and author of the book Антиаполлон: Лунная афера США[31] in which he denies all Moon landing evidence and accuses the United States government of plundering the money paid by the American taxpayers for the Moon program. He also claims the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and some Soviet scientists helped NASA fake the landings.[32] David S. Percy – TV producer, expert in audiovisual technologies, and member of the Royal Photographic Society. He is co-author, along with Mary Bennett, of Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers[33] and co-producer of What Happened On the Moon? He is the main proponent of the whistle-blower accusation, arguing that mistakes in the NASA photos are so obvious that they are evidence that insiders are trying to blow the whistle on the hoax by knowingly adding mistakes that they know will be seen.[34] Stanislav Pokrovsky – Russian and General Director of a scientific-manufacturing enterprise Project-D-MSK who calculated that the real speed of the Saturn V rocket at S-IC staging time was only half of what was declared.[35][36] His analysis appears to assume that the solid rocket plumes from the fuselage and retrorockets on the two stages came to an instant halt in the surrounding air so they can be used to estimate the velocity of the rocket. He ignored high-altitude winds and the altitude at staging, 67 km, where air is about 1/10,000 as dense as at sea level, and claimed that only a loop around the Moon was possible, not a manned landing on the Moon with return to Earth. He also allegedly found the reason for this – problems with the Inconel superalloy used in the F-1 engine.[37][38][39] Alexander Ivanovich Popov – Russian author of the book Американцы на Луне: великий прорыв или космическая афера?[40] in which he aims to prove that Saturn V was in fact a camouflaged Saturn IB[41] and denies all Moon landing evidence.[42] Aron Ranen – a filmmaker, directed and produced the documentary Did We Go?[43][44] Ralph René (1933–2008) – was an inventor and self-taught engineering buff. Author of the self-published book NASA Mooned America![45] Bart Sibrel – a filmmaker, produced and directed four films for his company, AFTH, LLC,[46] including a 2001 film, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon,[47][48] examining the evidence of a hoax. The arguments that Sibrel puts forward in this film have been debunked by many sources, including Svector Studios five-part video series Lunar Legacy,[49] which disproves the documentarys main argument that the Apollo crew faked their distance from the Earth while in low Earth orbit. Sibrel has said that the effect on the shot covered in his film was made through the use of a transparency of the Earth. Some parts of the original footage, according to Sibrel, were not able to be included on the official releases for the media. On such allegedly censored parts, the correlation between Earth and Moon phases can be clearly confirmed, refuting Sibrels claim that these shots were faked. On September 9, 2002, Sibrel was punched in the face by Buzz Aldrin after Sibrel confronted Aldrin with his theories[50] and accused the former astronaut of being a coward, and a liar, and a thief. The Los Angeles County district attorneys office refused to file charges against Aldrin, saying that he had been provoked by Sibrel.[51]
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