I get that there's incentive but the USSR had space monitoring capabilities and telescopes that would have been able to prove that the Americans were up to fucks if that were the case.
I just can't explain why the Soviets would play along with their own humiliation?
The Reds probably weren't as humiliated as the US likes to imagine them being. The US arbitrarily decided landing on the Moon would be the end-all be-all of the Space Race. They set out to do it, they did it, then they ran a victory lap. It was a remarkable accomplishment, but space is so incredibly large that it is a little bit silly to even conceive of there being a finish line in the first place. Two years after the Moon landing, Venera 7 became the first probe to land on the surface of Venus. A year later Mars 3 became the first probe to land on Mars (the US had accomplished successful fly-bys before these in the Mariner program). It is not like the US won space and everything was over. The "battle" continued, and milestones continued to be set by both space programs.
My favorite and most believable version is the Operation Avalanche take, that the contractor for life support skimped and it wouldn't have survived the landing. So they had Kubrick or someone who knew Kubrick's come in and shoot a backup reel that the astronauts would broadcast in the event that they couldn't land.
I like that one because it's a very believable capitalist solution to a capitalist problem.
I found this video that says Kubrick shooting film would be impossible because a successful film would be impossible to fake. No idea if it's true, but it's an interesting watch, and the presenter seems to know a lot more about the topic than I do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_loUDS4c3Cs /shrug
Not to mention that the whole thing was being observed by media, amateur radio operators, amateur astronomers and such, around the world. If it were faked, there would have been a lot of middle class hobbyists calling bullshit, let alone the international community with state resources at their disposal.
If I could pick up signals from the ISS with a handheld radio, some nerd with a satellite dish was definitely listening in on the communications. The is a whole category of affluent hams who do EME shit. They have privately operated antenna arrays so sensitive they can receive a signal which is being bounced off the surface of the moon. It would require much less to receive a signal being transmitted directly from the Moon's surface.
I don't really believe it, but there was a huge anti-communist incentive to fake the moon landing. The Soviets were winning the space race.
I get that there's incentive but the USSR had space monitoring capabilities and telescopes that would have been able to prove that the Americans were up to fucks if that were the case.
I just can't explain why the Soviets would play along with their own humiliation?
The Reds probably weren't as humiliated as the US likes to imagine them being. The US arbitrarily decided landing on the Moon would be the end-all be-all of the Space Race. They set out to do it, they did it, then they ran a victory lap. It was a remarkable accomplishment, but space is so incredibly large that it is a little bit silly to even conceive of there being a finish line in the first place. Two years after the Moon landing, Venera 7 became the first probe to land on the surface of Venus. A year later Mars 3 became the first probe to land on Mars (the US had accomplished successful fly-bys before these in the Mariner program). It is not like the US won space and everything was over. The "battle" continued, and milestones continued to be set by both space programs.
Reminds me of this post, which my space enthusiast brother has verified as true: https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/QcwmdEZfHF.jpg
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My favorite and most believable version is the Operation Avalanche take, that the contractor for life support skimped and it wouldn't have survived the landing. So they had Kubrick or someone who knew Kubrick's come in and shoot a backup reel that the astronauts would broadcast in the event that they couldn't land.
I like that one because it's a very believable capitalist solution to a capitalist problem.
I found this video that says Kubrick shooting film would be impossible because a successful film would be impossible to fake. No idea if it's true, but it's an interesting watch, and the presenter seems to know a lot more about the topic than I do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_loUDS4c3Cs /shrug
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Don't kinkshame! Brezhnev had a cuckholding fetish!
There's enough reasons to shame Brezhnev outside of his links already.
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Not to mention that the whole thing was being observed by media, amateur radio operators, amateur astronomers and such, around the world. If it were faked, there would have been a lot of middle class hobbyists calling bullshit, let alone the international community with state resources at their disposal.
If I could pick up signals from the ISS with a handheld radio, some nerd with a satellite dish was definitely listening in on the communications. The is a whole category of affluent hams who do EME shit. They have privately operated antenna arrays so sensitive they can receive a signal which is being bounced off the surface of the moon. It would require much less to receive a signal being transmitted directly from the Moon's surface.
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