[FPSPACE] "Russians Landed on Moon Before Americans" Telegraph article

[LARRY KLAES]

And one other item I see from a related article.

 

In this piece from an article on British plans to control their nation after

a nuclear attack:

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/5610430/Cold-War-nuclear-attack-plans-released.html

 

This quote:

 

"Each day, a mock cabinet of civil servants would meet to decide what elements of the emergency plans should be implemented. 

 

"One scenario portrayed a possible train of events beginning in September 1968 and involving the Soviet Union landing astronauts on the moon on October 17 as tensions build along the Iron Curtain borders in central Europe." 

 

Did British authorities know something, or were they just making an educated

guess for the time?

 

Larry


 
> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:57:22 -0400
> From: clj at panix.com
> To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
> Subject: [FPSPACE] "Russians Landed on Moon Before Americans" Telegraph article
> 
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5737854/Russian-spacecraft-landed-on-moon-hours-before-Americans.html
> is an article headlined "Russian spacecraft landed on moon hours before 
> Americans" with the sub-headline "A previously unheard recording of a Russian 
> spacecraft attempting to beat NASA's Apollo 11 in 1969's race to the moon has 
> been released." It's about Luna 15, and has very little that's new (only the 
> release of a recording from Jodrell Bank monitoring the Luna 15 crash (NOT 
> landing!) on the moon.
> 
> In addition to the errors in the headline (the article itself makes it clear 
> that Luna 15 hit the moon after, not before the Eagle landed), the article 
> repeats the error that the Soviet craft was trying to beat the Americans back 
> to Earth with a soil sample. If the landing had been successful, the Luna 15 
> return craft would have reached Earth AFTER the Apollo 11 astronauts' return.
> 
> I certainly hope all the hype surrounding the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 
> 11 landing doesn't result in a huge mis-remembering of history imprinting 
> itself in the memories of mankind.
> 
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