On Fighting errors in the modern world I posted a book on Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ I got sent to me by Academia.
In it I found the following that is of great interest in clearing up the 'achievements' in spaceflight. Well it did it for me anyway.

Gagarin Was Never in Space

A Soviet propaganda hoax has been revealed in the former communist countries (for example Hungary, Estonia and Poland). It was a myth that everyone had really believed in, that the Soviet Air Force officer Yuri Gagarin had made a space-flight. Many Western governments were aware of this Soviet bluff but did not want to reveal the truth. It was not intended for the people to know that the Soviet Union was a backward state.

One interesting books about this is "Gagarin: A Cosmic Lie" ("Gagarin - kozmikus hazugsag", Budapest, 1990) by the Hungarian journalist Istvan Nemere. Not one word about the contradictions surrounding Gagarin's "journey into space" have been published in Sweden, where the Soviet Union is still regarded with a great deal of respect. Such a revelation would be far too embarrassing.

Until 1961, the United States had managed to send up 42 satellites, the Soviet Union only 12. The United States also informed the world that Alan Shepard would make a space journey in the space-craft Freedom 7 on 5 May 1961.

The Soviet Union was forced to do something to save face. For this reason a Soviet cosmonaut, Vladimir Ilyushin, was sent up into space on 7 April 1961. The Americans intercepted several radio communications between him and the space centre in the Soviet Union. Ilyushin's landing failed and he was seriously injured. He could not be shown to the public. It was claimed that he had been injured in a car accident. He was sent to China to receive better medical treatment.

The Russian TV docuмentary "Cosmonaut Cover-Up" (2001) also claims that on 7 April 1961, Vladimir Ilyushin left for space, got into trouble during the first orbit, and crash-landed in China during the third orbit. Ilyushin was badly injured. He was returned to the Soviet Union a year later. Ilyushin was killed in an engineered car accident in 1961.

The Soviet Union did not have a spare capsule at that time and in Moscow it was decided to orchestrate a huge bluff, a cosmic lie.

Radio Moscow claimed that a Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, had been sent up into space on the morning of 12 April 1961 with the space-rocket Vostok. According to the official announcement, he had already landed and was in fine health. The whole world believed this except for the Western intelligence services. They had not managed to register any radio communication between Gagarin and the space centre.

This hoax was sloppily orchestrated. Polish newspapers announced already on the morning of 12 April that a Soviet cosmonaut had been in space. Newspapers in other countries did not report Gagarin's flight until 13 April.

In a book written for the West, Soviet propagandists claimed that simple peasants recognized Yuri Gagarin soon after he landed in a field and enthusiastically shouted: "Gagarin, Gagarin!" But nothing about his "space journey" had been reported at that time, no pictures of him had been published and his name had not been mentioned. The message from radio and TV was sent out 35 minutes after the alleged journey. Were the peasants psychic?

The newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya claimed that Gagarin was wearing a blue flight suit when he landed. In his memoirs, Gagarin him-self claimed he was dressed in an orange flight suit.

At his press conference, Gagarin read from notes when he "related" his journey. During the press conference, he made several crucial mistakes. Gagarin stated that weightlessness was no problem. Every-thing seemed just normal. We now know that this is not the case. The cosmonaut German Titov, for example, had difficulties with his balance and had heart problems. American astronauts experienced similar symptoms.

Gagarin then made his most serious mistake, despite the fact that he was constantly assisted by experts, who often spoke about discoveries in space. He said: "Then I saw South America."

This is impossible. At that time it was night in South America, which meant that it could not be seen at all. According to the official reports, Gagarin began his "space journey" at 9:07 Moscow time. He was supposed to have flown over South America at 9:22 Moscow time. In Chile, the time would have been 2:22, in Brazil 3:22. He could never have reached South America in 15 minutes. For other cosmonauts it took 45 minutes.

Foreign journalists wondered: "When will the photographs that Gagarin took in space be published?" Gagarin was silent, thought for a moment and answered: "I didn't have a camera with me!"

Even unmanned Soviet space probes had photographic equipment on board. It would have been an important propaganda triumph to publish Gagarin's pictures from space. The Soviet Union would never have missed an opportunity like that. Shepard's pictures were cabled out immediately. Parts of his flight were also shown on TV.

At the press conference, it was never explained whether Gagarin landed in his capsule or was ejected. If he had used the catapult seat, he would have become several centimetres shorter. This could easily have been ascertained. All pilots who have catapulted have become somewhat shorter as a result of spinal deformation.

When Gagarin wanted to travel in space for real in 1968, he was disposed of, according to Istvin Nemere. His plane exploded on 27 March the same year. The official report concerning this event contained many contradictions. The report was classified during the communist period. It claimed that there was not much left of Gagarin's body after the crash. In that case, how did his flight suit come to land in the top of a tree?

There are far too many questions surrounding Gagarin's space-flight in April 1961. A British team of researchers who questions the propaganda surrounding manned journeys to the moon also confirms this information. When will the truth be admitted officially?

On 12 April 2001, the Russian senior engineer Mikhail Rudenko, at the Experimental Design Office 456, in Khimki in the Moscow region,admitted in Pravda that three cosmonauts had died in space before Gagarin was sent up, namely Alexei Ledovskikh (1957), Serenti Zhaborin (February 1958), and Andrei Mitkov (flight attempt January1959).

The Russian journalist and cosmonaut candidate (June 1965) Yaroslav Golovanov (1932-2003) wrote in his book "Cosmonaut One" that on 10 November 1960, another cosmonaut, Byelokonyev, also died onboard a space-ship in orbit. Several sources reveal that 7-11 cosmonauts have died in orbit before Gagarin.

The CIA knew about the Gagarin bluff but said nothing. Instead they have come up with more and more ridiculous lies themselves.

It is claimed that those astronauts who were freemasons performed magic rituals in space. In the Grand Lodge of Dallas, there is a painting of American astronauts on the moon performing certain secret masonic rituals. According to official information, the American astronaut and freemason Edwin Aldrin left the banner of the Knights Templar on the surface of the moon. It was also claimed that two gold rings were left on the moon, the purpose of which has not been clarified. Information was later "leaked" that the freemasons attempted to contact the demons on the moon with the aid of these gold rings. Kenneth Kleinknecht, a department head at NASA, as well as a high-ranking freemason and a member of the secretariat within the Scottish Rite supposedly issued the orders for these rituals (Michael A. Hoffman II, "Secrets of Masonic Mind Control", Dresden, NY, 1989, p. 40). The masonic leaders have a very strange perception of reality.

The docuмentary by the famous photographer David S. Percy, "What Happened on the Moon?" shows that we have every reason to doubt the authenticity of the manned Apollo flights. The film shows in detail how the pictures "from the moon" in conjunction with the first flight on 20 July 1969 (Apollo11) were falsified. Shadows fall indifferent directions, which suggests artificial lighting (which has been officially denied). In pictures taken from different places the astronauts were not in darkness even when they were in the shade, the same background was used and the same hill appeared twice during two different landings. Despite the clear view, no stars were visible in the sky, no crater formed under the lunar landing module where the rocket thrusters had braked, no dust had settled on the landing module and its struts, the flag waved despite the fact that there is no atmosphere on the moon, the sound of engines (150 decibels) was missing in the NASA film, in which it was possible to hear the astronauts' voices. A "moon rock" with a 'G marked on it could be seen (as if it was a marked prop). A Coca-Cola bottle was visible on the TV screen (perhaps they sell them on the moon?), the TV signal did not come from the moon, but from Australia, and the Earth was visible from the windows on both sides of the space capsule.

It was technically impossible at that time to perform a lunar landing. (Bill Kaysing, a technician at the company who built the Apollo rockets, claimed that the chance of reaching the moon and returning safely was around 0.017 per cent.) Upon leaving the moon, no flames were seen coming from the rocket's engine, as if wires had pulled up the rocket.

A few months before the alleged trip to the moon, a prototype of the landing module was tested. Neil Armstrong lost control of the module at a height of 90 metres, but managed to eject himself. How is it that the lunar landing went perfectly?

Astronauts cannot travel to the moon because of the radiation in the Van Allen belts, inner belt is approximately 2400-5600 km distant from the Earth and 3200 kilometres wide, outer belt is 12 000-19 000 km distant from the Earth. This radiation was discovered with the aid of satellite sensors in 1958. Charged particles, protons and electrons, which have been caught in the Earth's magnetic field, move about rapidly in these belts. These particles have been created within the Earth's atmosphere by cosmic radiation and sun-winds (corpuscular radiation). They move simultaneously in three different patterns: in spirals around the magnetic line, back and forth along the magnetic line and in orbit around the Earth; electrons move from west to east, protons from east to west.

The most dangerous particles, which contain most energy, have collected in the inner parts of the belts, an area which astronauts absolutely must avoid. If an astronaut passed through these belts, he would become seriously ill or die from the radiation shortly after exposure. The photographs that were taken would likewise have been destroyed.

During magnetic sun storms, the radiation increases. On such occasions it can be a thousand times stronger than usual. The Apollo 16 mission coincided with the most intensive sun storm ever. A two-metre layer of lead would have been necessary to protect the astronauts, according to the physicist Ralph Rene. (We are protected by lead when x-rays of our teeth are taken.) The space capsule had a thin shell of aluminium. Due to the radiation, the Russians never attempted to send anyone to the moon.

Bill Kaysing believed that the astronauts circled the Earth for eight days and that NASA showed fake pictures of the moon in the meantime. The pictures were taken in the Nevada desert at a secret military base called Area 51, where there is crater-covered ground, which look similar to the moon. If NASA's moon film is shown at double normal speed, the astronauts appear to be running in the Earth's gravitational field.

The statistics from the unmanned flights allowed too small a margin for successful flights, whereas the manned flights were nearly exclusively successful. Despite the fact that the electrical system of Apollo 12 was critically damaged by lightning, it successfully managed to "land on the moon" using just the reserve system. Only a child could believe in such a fairy tale. When a real attempt was made in 1970 with Apollo 13, everything went wrong. The question is, what is true and what is bluff? At least 25 % of Americans believe man has never landed on the moon. The Apollo hoax cost the American tax-payers 40 billion dollars. We will never know what the cost would have been if the US government had really tried to put a man on the moon.

One thing is certain - it is no longer possible to trust our authorities. They are notorious liars and also quite careless.

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Very interesting, demonstrating that the two countries were both complicit in some kind of fraud.  Gagarin's trip was considered a huge demoralization to the US, so why didn't the US expose their fraud?  At the same time, I'm sure the Soviets knew that the US moon landings were frauds, but never came out with their information along those lines.  So there must have been some kind of "gentleman's agreement" between the two sides.  We'll let you hoax the first man in space, and you let us hoax the moon landings.  Both countries, despite feigning enmity, were really in cahoots, as they were basically run by the same people (Jews).  I've long thought that the Cold War was largely a fraud.  It gave the US a pretext for huge military buildups and the enrichment of various contractors.  Fear of the US allowed the Soviets to exert greater control over their population.  So it was a win-win for the two sides, and a total hoax.  This lends more credence to the theory that nuclear bombs don't exist but are just fakery mean to scare the respectively populations of the two sides.

 So it was a one-sided "space race" to the moon.  And yet the US had to save face among its own population after Kennedy made the idiotic promise that we'd go to the moon before the decade was out.

It is widely reported that JFK wanted to utterly destroy/eliminate the C.I.A. after he realized how it had utterly shafted him on Cuba leading to the Bay of Pigs fiasco.  I suspect he made the moon pledge based on a bunch of false info that was fed to him by some bad actors.

Very interesting, demonstrating that the two countries were both complicit in some kind of fraud.  Gagarin's trip was considered a huge demoralization to the US, so why didn't the US expose their fraud?  At the same time, I'm sure the Soviets knew that the US moon landings were frauds, but never came out with their information along those lines.  So there must have been some kind of "gentleman's agreement" between the two sides.  We'll let you hoax the first man in space, and you let us hoax the moon landings.  Both countries, despite feigning enmity, were really in cahoots, as they were basically run by the same people (Jєωs).  I've long thought that the Cold War was largely a fraud.  It gave the US a pretext for huge military buildups and the enrichment of various contractors.  Fear of the US allowed the Soviets to exert greater control over their population.  So it was a win-win for the two sides, and a total hoax.  This lends more credence to the theory that nuclear bombs don't exist but are just fakery mean to scare the respectively populations of the two sides.

What evidence is there nukes don’t exist? I understand how the moon landings were faked, not many people had to be in on the actual lie. To many people have seen nukes detonated in the 50’s out west, after the detonations in Nevada, radioactive ash fell on the city. Besides, if nukes don’t exist, why doesn’t a country like China have a crack at the Russians and take Siberia from them? Only nukes are keeping the Chicoms off the Russians.

What evidence is there nukes don’t exist? I understand how the moon landings were faked, not many people had to be in on the actual lie. To many people have seen nukes detonated in the 50’s out west, after the detonations in Nevada, radioactive ash fell on the city. Besides, if nukes don’t exist, why doesn’t a country like China have a crack at the Russians and take Siberia from them? Only nukes are keeping the Chicoms off the Russians.

That is what I thought.

I mean, how many tons of regular explosives are needed to make the same damage that a nuclear explosion does?

Atomic and quantum theory are false. Aristotle, Plato, Socrates and some others were all opposed to Democritus and Leucippus. But saying that atomic theory is false as presented, as saying that everything's constituted from "atoms" in the void, or out of the void, doesn't mean there aren't invisible things or powers, or micro particles, or deadly radiation and cancer.

There has been the historical development of explosive power and poison and pollution. What have they been able to put together for deadly and diabolical susbtance? "Nukes"? They no doubt can blow up cities and use dirty bombs. How "atomic" or "nuclear" it really is is something about atomic theory not the big insuracne adjustment.

The earth not being flat, and the day not being infinite in space either, and ʝʊdɛօ-Masonic controlled NASA being unable to get to the Moon with a rocket don't have to do with nukes. There are distinctions observed in the lies themselves too not just what's true about them.