[USA] Den ENDA tråden om Apollo / Månlandningarna / Bemannade rymdresor

The answer to this conundrum, for once, was found by a conspiracy theorist, Steve Troy of Lunaranomalies.com, in 2001 (the original site no longer exists, but Archive.org has preserved a*copy*made in 2008). His fellow theorists, however, seem to have ignored his research and continue to peddle this alleged evidence.

In 2001 Troy ordered from various NASA agencies film duplicates of this photograph and analyzed them in search of the letter. It wasn’t there. So he contacted the same agencies to inquire why the letter was instead present in one of the “official” NASA websites.

One of these agencies, Houston’s Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), found that one of their reference*prints, but not their*films*(duplicates of the Apollo originals), had the alleged letter. LPI supplied Troy with a scan of that print at the highest possible resolution. It turned out that the letter was actually a tiny hair.

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Figure 5.15-3. The “letter” is revealed to be simply a hair.

This high-resolution image clearly shown that the alleged letter is not a pencil or felt pen mark: it’s a curled-up filament-like object. Coincidentally, the alleged letter has one of the shapes that can be most easily assumed by a hair: it’s a C, not a K, F, M or A, for example.

The Johnson Space Center explained to Steve Troy that one of these imperfect prints had been scanned in the late 1980s or early 1990s and had remained on the website since then. More recent, higher-quality scans taken directly from the original film are available online and don’t show the hair.