‘Russian argument proves the Moon landings weren’t fake’

Russia would have denounced the Apollo Moon landings as a hoax if America had really failed to reach the lunar surface, a leading space scientist has argued. Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, presenter of BBC’s The Sky At Night, who is giving this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, said she was amazed that some people still doubt that humans have reached the Moon. “I think there are many arguments that the Moon landings happened,” she told The Telegraph. “When we put satellites in orbit around the Moon, we can see what was left behind, like the flags, and things like that. “But…