{"id":85067,"date":"2018-11-24T08:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T16:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/russias-top-space-official-says-their-mission-to-the-moon-will-help-verify-conspiracy-theory"},"modified":"2018-11-24T08:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T16:02:25","slug":"russias-top-space-official-says-their-mission-to-the-moon-will-help-verify-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/russias-top-space-official-says-their-mission-to-the-moon-will-help-verify-conspiracy-theory","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s top space official says their mission to the moon will help verify conspiracy theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russias-top-space-official-says-their-mission-to-the-moon-will-help-verify-conspiracy-theory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One Russian poll found that 28% of respondents doubted the moon landing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The head of Russia\u2019s Roscosmos space agency has said that a proposed Russian mission to the moon will be tasked with verifying that the American moon landings were real.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have set this objective to fly and verify whether they\u2019ve been there or not,\u201d said Dmitry Rogozin in a video posted Saturday on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Rogozin was responding to a question about whether or not NASA actually landed on the moon nearly 50 years ago. He appeared to be joking, as he smirked and shrugged while answering. But conspiracies surrounding NASA\u2019s moon missions are common in Russia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ap-russia-space-agency-chief-well-verify-us-moon-landings-2018-11\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ap-russia-space-agency-chief...018&#45;11<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Russian poll found that 28% of respondents doubted the moon landing. The head of Russia\u2019s Roscosmos space agency has said that a proposed Russian mission to the moon will be tasked with verifying that the American moon landings were real. \u201cWe have set this objective to fly and verify whether they\u2019ve been there or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}