The current generation would have no reason to sit on such juicy info.
Quoting: Halcyon Dayz, FCD Putin, like other tyrants and totalitarian systems, prefers to use information as blackmail.
Evidence needs to be true, and relevant.
As in, it actually proves that something was faked.
Quoting: Halcyon Dayz, FCD Backwards "logic." NASA is the one making the most extravagant scientific claim in history. NASA is the one who must prove its case.
In fact, NASA never tried.
- Scientifically, NASA could have provided its technology and documentation (methods and apparatus) to nonaligned countries willing to reproduce the alleged feat.
- Historically, NASA could have provided nonaligned countries with means to track and communicate with the astronauts throughout their alleged journey, and provided instructions to the astronauts on how to demonstrate their claims. (For example: "Briefly remove your heavy equipment, then jump ten feet in the air.")
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Legally, NASA could have conducted a series of depositions, under oath and cross-examination, of the astronauts, engineers and executives.
NASA did none of this. Instead, ruled by infamous crook Tricky Dicky Nixon, NASA simply hoped that the American people would be so gullible as to swallow the entire story whole without question. Unfortunately, NASA was mostly correct on that.