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Moon Landings Investigation Demanded By Russian Official In Retaliation For US Fifa Probe

Russian Official Demands International Investigation Into NASA Moon Landings
Paul Vale
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A Russian official has demanded an international inquiry into the NASA space missions that landed man on the moon. Writing for Russian newspaper Izvestia, Vladimir Markin, who sits on an Investigative Committee for the Russian government, said a probe should be launched into the moon landings, which took place between 1969 and 1972.

According to the Moscow Times, Markin’s remarks are retaliation for the investigation launched by US authorities into corruption at Fifa, which has intensified questions around Russia’s suitability to host the 2018 World Cup.

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Vladimir Markin attends the 'Battalion' premiereat the Oktyabr Cinema in Moscow, Russia on February 19, 2015

Fifa president Sepp Blatter announced his resignation earlier this month in the wake of the scandal, which saw 9 Fifa officials arrested on corruption charges.

Markin wrote that as US prosecutors had “declared themselves the supreme arbiters of international football affairs" investigators should look into supposedly dubious parts of America’s past, specifically the moon landings and the disappearance of film footage from the original 1969 landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

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Markin also wants the investigation to look at the whereabouts of the 400 kilograms of moon rock obtained during the landings.

He wrote: "We are not contending that they did not fly [to the moon], and simply made a film about it. But all of these scientific -- or perhaps cultural -- artifacts are part of the legacy of humanity, and their disappearance without a trace is our common loss. An investigation will reveal what happened.”

NASA admitted in 2009 that they had wiped the original recordings of the 1969 mission. Following a three-year search for the old magnetic tapes that held the footage, NASA concluded that it was likely they had accidently been wiped and recorded over with satellite data.

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Fifa president Sepp Blatter attends a press conference on May 30, 2015 in Zurich after being re-elected during the FIFA Congress

NASA spokesman Dick Nafzger said at the time: "We're all saddened that they're not there. We all wish we had 20-20 hindsight. I don't think anyone in the NASA organisation did anything wrong. I think it slipped through the cracks, and nobody's happy about it."

According to Nasa, the lunar rock is currently stored at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Texas.

In readiness for the conspiracy theorists soon to be sitting in their underpants typing out responses, here are 11 proofs that the moon landings were NOT faked:

11 Proofs That The Apollo Moon Landings Were NOT Fake
These Two Pictures Match(01 of10)
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In 2008 the Japanese Selene probe obtained photographic evidence of the Moon landings, by comparing the image on the left (from the Apollo 15 landing) taken in July 1971 to its own 3D terrain camera images. They were exactly the same.
'The Foil Shot'(02 of10)
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This picture is often used to claim that there were 'studio lights' visible in the upper left corner. They were not studio lights, as explained by Roger Launius, of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. "Okay, let's take a step back. NASA's going to release a picture showing studio lights? Hello! The odd lights in the picture are simply lens flares," he told National Geographic, sensibly. (credit:NASA Goddard Photo and Video/Flickr)
We Can See It(03 of10)
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It is often claimed that if the Lunar landings were real, we could see them from the Earth, or the Hubble Telescope. Nope. Fact is they're just too far away. On the other hand, we can see the Lunar landing sites thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Here is the picture. You're welcome. (credit:NASA Goddard Photo and Video/Flickr)
Other Space Craft Have Seen It(04 of10)
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The Lunar landings have been spotted by China's Chang'e 2 lunar probe, the Indian Chandrayaan-1 probe, and various other independent (non NASA-funded) space agencies. (credit:Euclid vanderKroew/Flickr)
This Thing.(05 of10)
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... is a glass spherule (about 0.6 mm in diameter) produced by a meteorite impact into lunar soil. "We've found particles of fresh glass in Moon rocks that were produced by explosive volcanic activity and by meteorite impacts over 3 billion years ago," explains Dr. Marc Norman, a lunar geologist at the University of Tasmania. "The presence of water on Earth rapidly breaks down such volcanic glass in only a few million years. These rocks must have come from the Moon!"
This.(06 of10)
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The Lunar rocks brought back by Nasa from the Moon are identical in all vital and important ways to those found elsewhere on Earth. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The Flag Was Flapping, And That Makes Sense(07 of10)
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One claim made by Apollo 11 conspiracy theorists is that the American flag was seen 'flapping' on the surface of the Moon. Fact is, that's totally expected. No, there isn't any wind on the Moon - but there is momentum and intertia. The fabric of the flag was moved around while being set in position, and naturally waved as it was being set up. It also has a pole along the top to keep it in position - otherwise it would hang straight down. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Who Took The Pictures?(08 of10)
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One of the frequent claims is that the Apollo 11 mission included images of the two astronauts with no obvious cameraman. As National Geographic explains here, that was because there were cameras in the chests of both astronauts' suits, and on the Lander. (credit:NASA Goddard Photo and Video/Flickr)
'Where Are The Stars?'(09 of10)
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One of the claims made to support the hoax theory is that there were no stars pictured from the surface of the Moon. But this is because the Moon is very bright, reflecting a lot of the Sun's light. There are no stars because the cameras couldn't pick them up. (credit:sjrankin/Flickr)
This Expression(10 of10)
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This is the face of a man who has just walked on the Moon (Neil Armstrong), not the face of a man who has just faked it. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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