Originally Posted by ZTT

They've been saying they're going "back" for at least twenty years now, because with each passing decade it becomes more and more obvious that they never went in the first place. Eg:

https://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/14/bush.space/ - ambitious plan to return Americans to the moon by 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/...n-2024/585880/ - return Americans to the lunar surface in 2024

The reason for this new pantomime is probably because next month is the 50th anniversary of Apollo 16, and December is the 50th anniversary of Apollo 17, and people will quite rightly be asking how could we put men on the Moon every six months half a century ago, while fighting a one trillion dollar war, but no country on Earth has even attempted to do it since.



Amusing, but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-1_(missile)



4) The first to fake a Moon landing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zond_5..._test_and_hoax