{"id":163168,"date":"2022-09-03T19:46:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=163168"},"modified":"2022-09-03T19:46:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T19:46:52","slug":"conspiracy-theorists-who-reckon-moon-landings-were-hoax-pains-me-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/conspiracy-theorists-who-reckon-moon-landings-were-hoax-pains-me-astronaut\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy theorists who reckon moon landings were hoax ‘pains me’ – astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"

An astronaut who has been to space several times has slammed conspiracy theorists who say the moon landings were fake.<\/p>\n

Thomas Pesquet, a member of the European Union Space Agency, went on a Twitter rant, saying that the moon landing detractors "pain me".<\/p>\n

Pesquet, who has been to space four times, said on Wednesday that it "worries me" that people "blur the truth" about Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's visit to the moon in 1969.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut why do we have to waste precious time on this again: of course yes, humans went to the moon during the Apollo missions. And we\u2019re going back,\u201d he said, translated from French.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd yes, my emotions don\u2019t matter, but it pains me, after everything I\u2019ve done for 10 years, my two missions, the thousands of hours of extra work to share them and explain science and technology, to have to do this tweet today,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt also worries me enormously to see how some people have fun blurring the truth and others are having fun. Seriously ask yourself the question: who wins in all this? Not NASA no, but the manipulators who tell you that everything is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

His comments came ahead of NASA\u2019s second attempt of its Artemis I moon rocket launch on Saturday.<\/p>\n

That came five days after a pair of technical issues scuppered the first attempt at getting the rocket off the ground. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you get caught up in this in good faith, it happens: get off Twitter and try to find the info in books, for example. It\u2019s safer,\u201d Pesquet recommended.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn short, that\u2019s all on this subject because it\u2019s not my field and I have a lot of work. We\u2019re going to go back to spending all of our time and energy making things like the ISS and Artemis happen, because it\u2019s good for humanity. No offense to some,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cSee you on the moon in a few years,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

Buzz Aldrin himself famously punched a conspiracy theorist in the face for claiming his moon landing was faked.<\/p>\n

In September 2002, Aldrin, then aged 72, landed a punch on conspiracy theorist Bart Sibrel outside a hotel in Beverly Hills, California.<\/p>\n

Aldrin can be heard exclaiming, \u201cWill you get away from me?\u201d while Sibrel, standing close to him, continues, \u201cYou\u2019re a coward and a liar and a thief,\u201d when Aldrin strikes.<\/p>\n

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