‘Of course yes, man went to the moon’: Thomas Bisquet quells controversy over Artemis mission
It is an interview that sparked many reactions on social networks. On 20 Hours of France News 2 Sunday evening, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet answered Thomas Soto’s questions about the mission. Artemis 1NASA’s new mission, which was scheduled to launch on Monday, was postponed to saturday. In this interview, Thomas Pesquet made no secret of his admiration for the moon.
“When I look at the moon at night, it still gives me goosebumps, because it’s not the same thing as saying to yourself is it humanly possible for me to go there. The moon, you have to see there’s a factor of 1000. It’s 1000 times farther from the space station,” he said on In particular, before adding: “There is another dimension to space travel,” before adding: “We are going very far. As far as no human has traveled from the earth. A sentence that ignited social networks, some saw as a “recognition” that man did not set foot on the land of the moon.
However, the astronaut raised the flight of the Artemis mission itself, which plans to circumnavigate the moon, up to 70,000 km farther than Earth’s only natural satellite, before landing there. This is a journey beyond those made by the Apollo missions. In a series of tweets this Wednesday, the Frenchman clarified things, hammering that “Of course yes, human continued the moon during the Apollo missions. The latter also lamented that “some enjoy obliterating the truth”, and that others are being deceived.
Seriously ask yourself the question: Who wins in all of this? Not NASA, but the manipulators who told you everything was wrong. (…) And no, we’re not going to prove here that the moon landing actually happened, because it’s already been done millions of times, and it’s spread all over the web, and guys don’t listen anyway, they talk about the truth but choose things that suit them and ignore the rest ‘ annoyed again.