MOSCOW, August 20 The orbit in which Luna-25 is located does not allow photographing the landing modules of the American Apollo spacecraft, which confirm the landing of US astronauts on the Earth's satellite, the device did not have such a task, the presenter said researcher at the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nathan Eismont.
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"It would be possible to pick up (the orbit) to photograph it, but, of course, it was not chosen in such a way, but to land where it was necessary, it was the main task. In principle, this is possible,” Eismont said.
According to him, in the orbit in which the station is now located, it will not be possible to photograph the Apollo landers, but in general, “this is not a super task” .
Supporters of the «lunar conspiracy» believe that there were no manned expeditions to the moon.
In 2009, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the landing of man on the moon, high-resolution images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) were published. They clearly show not only the landing modules and pieces of equipment left by the expeditions on the surface of the Earth's satellite, but also the traces of the lunar car, as well as the astronauts themselves.
The Soyuz 2.1b rocket with the first domestic lunar station in almost 50 years was launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome at 02:11 Moscow time on August 11. The main goal of the mission is to examine the soil of the Earth's natural satellite for the presence of ice.
The automatic station «Luna-25» was created at the Lavochkin Research and Production Association. It should be the first spacecraft to land gently in the area of the South Pole of the Moon, where the complex terrain prevails. This is expected to happen on August 21st.
On Thursday, Luna-25 took the first pictures of the far side of the Moon with the television cameras of the STS-L complex.
On Saturday, Roskosmos reported that an emergency situation occurred on board the station, which prevented the transition to a pre-landing orbit with the specified parameters.