| Apollo was NASA's moon exploration program. In | | | | the book was named after him. But Lenov never |
| 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the | | | | admitted having been part of a top secret Apollo |
| first men to walk on the moon with Apollo 11, the | | | | 20 mission. |
| last Apollo mission was Apollo 17 in 1972. Apollo | | | | If you believe William Rutledge's story, the |
| 18, 19 and 20 were planned missions, but due to | | | | astronauts visited both an ancient city on the |
| budget constraints they were finally canceled. | | | | moon's surface as well as an alien spaceship. They |
| Apollo 20 had already been cancelled in on January | | | | were also able to collect some alien gadgets in the |
| 4, 1970 as its Saturn V rocket was now needed | | | | ship and brought one of the two dead alien pilots |
| for the Skylab space station and budget | | | | back to their Lunar Module. An analysis of meteor |
| restrictions had limited the Saturn V production to | | | | impact density on the city and the ship apparently |
| the original 15 flight models. | | | | revealed that both the city and the ship must |
| Nevertheless, you can find a large amount of | | | | been there for about 1.5 billion of years. And it |
| false info about Apollo 20 on the web - years ago | | | | seemed that the ship had already been explored |
| William Rutledge, a man living in Rwanda who | | | | before (probably by another alien race?). |
| claimed to have been a former Bell Laboratories | | | | William Rutledge posted videos and images on |
| scientist and employed by USAF, said there was a | | | | YouTube (username "retiredafb") and other |
| top secret soviet-american Apollo 20 mission that | | | | websites, and the story even got some media |
| found an alien spaceship on the moon. | | | | coverage. Even if there are considerable flaws in |
| According to the conspiracy theory Apollo 20 | | | | the videos that allowed to identify the story as a |
| arrived on the moon on August 16, 1976, about | | | | hoax, one has at least to admit that they are well |
| four years after the last official Apollo mission. | | | | done and look quite amazing and that Rutledge (or |
| The destination was Delporte, a lunar impact | | | | who ever released this) spent some time on |
| crater on the Moon's far (dark) side. Crew | | | | creating the mockups. |
| members were William Rutledge (US), Leona | | | | The story probably has its origins on a former |
| Snyder (US) and Alexei Leonov (USSR), and their | | | | story about photos taken during the Apollo 15 |
| mission was to explore an alien spaceship | | | | mission. These images are genuine NASA photos |
| apparently detected by the Apollo 15 crew (David | | | | and can be downloaded from the Universities |
| Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin) in 1971. | | | | Space Research Association for example. Image |
| It can at least be confirmed that Alexei Leonov | | | | AS15-P-9625 shows the Delporte region, which |
| was a real astronaut, he was even the first | | | | really includes a quite strange object: |
| person to walk in space on March 18, 1965, and | | | | It's probably nothing but an optical illusion |
| he commanded the Soviet side of the | | | | (remember the Face on Mars?), but you'll have to |
| Apollo-Soyuz mission, Soyuz 19, the first joint | | | | admit that it looks like some kind of a cigar inside |
| space mission between the Soviets and the USA. | | | | a crater, and it even seems to cast a shadow on |
| In Arthur C. Clarke's "2010: Odyssey Two" the | | | | the surface. |
| fictional spaceship "Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov" in | | | | |