Rogozin: We set a goal to fly away and check if the Americans were on the moon

The head of Russia's Roscosmos space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, said today, apparently in jest, that the proposed Russian mission to the moon would be tasked with verifying whether the Americans had actually been there.

"We set a goal to fly out and check whether they were there or not," Rogozin said in a video posted on Twitter.

The head of Roscosmos was answering the question of whether NASA really managed to land people on the moon almost 50 years ago.

Rogozin seemed to be joking, as he shrugged his shoulders as he answered.

Still, conspiracy theories about American lunar missions are common in Russia, and in 2015, the then-spokesman of Russia's Investigative Committee called for an investigation into the American moon landing.

The Soviet Union abandoned its own lunar program in the mid-XNUMXs after four experimental rockets exploded.