In article <MEnYb.74110$%72.40235@twister.nyroc.rr.com>,
 "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@greenms.com> wrote:

"Stu Gotz" <stu03@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:stu03-7BB230.23512116022004@news.verizon.net...

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.

Good, then perhaps you can point a link to it.

Couldn't find your ass in the dark with a map and a flashlight, huh??

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

Oh yeah right.

Fine, then why hasn't the Chinese called us out on the hoax?  Or any other
nation hostile to the US?

How the hell would the Chinese know??  How many manned or unmanned craft 
have they sent to the moon.??

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.