(followups trimmed to spare some of the groups)

Stu Gotz wrote:

Oh you may be the idiot.  The unmanned probe was named Tetra, I believe, and it was very real.    Mission Control practiced on transmission from the probe in preparation for the Apollo 11 mission.  it's not a secret -- NASA has admitted it.

The Soviets didn't blow the whistle because joint US-USSR cooperation on the
space program began long before the Apollo-Soyut mission.

And in case you haven't paid attention to recent history in the past 30 years, the US "loaned" the USSR millions of dollars which they needn't have paid back.  In addition, the US bagan selling wheat and other crops to the Soviets beginning around the time of the Apollo missions, most of the credit going to Tricky Nixon.

Suffice to say, the Soviets had all sorts of incentives to keep the lid on the Apollo missions.

Dream on pal.

-- Stu

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I see some village is missing its idiot.  Suggested name change: Schifosa, or maybe Gavone.