Rebirth 09: Synthetic Male God

Chapter 1058: Past Events on the Moon (Part )
Western Hemisphere, Virginia, F*I Headquarters, January 1

Several agents were discussing a situation.

"A senior NASA expert, a pioneer of the Apollo program, escaped from the hospital? Are you sure this is not some gossip? And why was it handed over to the F*I? Shouldn't the police handle it? Did he owe medical bills?"

"No, the hospital said he was in the advanced stage of liver cancer, and it was a medical miracle that he didn't die. He secretly left the hospital and lost his whereabouts. The local police searched for him but suspected that he had left Florida, so they handed him over to us."

"I still don't understand, what did he do wrong that requires the F*I"

"Remember our failed space program a few days ago? He was the person in charge of the Eye of Artemis. Now there are two suspicions. One is that he made a serious mistake in the project and fled for fear of crime. The other is that he might want to do something shocking before he dies. I don't know the details, but the higher-ups attach great importance to this and told us to find this person! C*A will also be involved."

"Isn't C*A only responsible for overseas affairs?"

"His actions may cause some kind of international losses. I don't know how much more. Anyway, let's take action."

While they were discussing, an agent ran over holding a tablet computer and said, "Guys, I searched for 'Hanson Doyle' on the Internet and found that his story has been spreading like crazy!"

"Spread? Where?"

"That Master Zhou's 'True History Foundation' accepted Hansen's submission! The content was just announced! In the video, he swore on the Bible that the Apollo moon landing was fake!"

This news made everyone stunned for a few seconds.

The door of the supervisor's office in the corner was suddenly opened, and the senior supervisor shouted angrily: "Jack! Find that damn Hansen Doyle immediately! He just showed up in Nevada! My phone has been blown up! The highest level of emergency!"

Several people immediately grabbed their jackets and prepared to go out.

The tablet computer was placed haphazardly on the table, and the video of the haggard and pale old man was still playing on the screen.

“It was 1966. I was 26 years old.”

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Hansen Doyle holds up a doctorate certificate and takes a graduation photo.

"In 1966, when I was 26 years old and had just received a double doctorate, my future was bright. I was about to stay at my alma mater and work there when I received a letter from my mentor, Charles Alexander, who was a student of Master von Karman and a classmate of Xuesen Qian. The letter said that he was serving the country and was involved in a very important confidential project."

"If I am interested in exploring the universe and can keep secrets and be loyal to the country, he hopes I can help him. The address is in Nevada."

"I barely hesitated. Exploring the universe is my lifelong dream, and serving the country is a noble honor. I rejected the offer from my alma mater the next day and went to look for my mentor with my suitcase. When I arrived, I found that there were almost only books in my suitcase, and I only had one pair of socks to change."

Speaking of this, Hansen smiled slightly, as if recalling his youthful impulse and good wishes at that time.

"I met my mentor, Charles, and he told me that he was working on the Apollo program, with the goal of sending people to the moon. I was so happy that I couldn't sleep for several days. I felt honored to be able to join such a great program."

"Due to the Cold War, although the name of this plan was known to the outside world, the specific progress was top secret. It was proposed by Kennedy in 1961, but it was stalled for two years in 1963 due to the "Assassination Incident". When I joined, it had just been restarted not long ago."

"My mentor also told me many other things, such as the fact that the Soviet Union was much faster than us in the field of aerospace. We lagged behind the Soviet Union in almost everything, including the Apollo program and even the earlier Mercury program. This made my mentor very distressed. He said it was very strange. The technical levels of both sides should not be that different."

"When I was in school, I knew that the Soviet Union was making rapid progress. Their rockets seemed to never stop, and they broke through the boundaries of human cognition almost once a year. However, due to the age issue, we could not question whether the other side was successful based on the limited evidence."

"I got into the work quickly. Many people here are well-known figures in the scientific community, some of whom I had even heard of since childhood. I was more of an assistant to them, but I enjoyed it."

"Both myself and the project have made rapid progress. During this period, the Apollo program also launched a number of lunar exploration rockets. Although we were several months or even a year behind the Soviet Union in terms of any achievements, we were moving forward step by step."

"But soon a piece of news caught us off guard. 1967"

After a slight doubt, Hansen corrected:
"No, it was in 1968 when the Soviet Union launched 'Probe-5' and 'Probe-6', only two months apart. They carried some small animals to the moon, flew around the moon, and returned successfully, returning to Earth in two ways, ballistic and bouncing." "This speed of progress has widened the gap with the Apollo program again. My mentor locked himself in the room for a whole day, and couldn't understand why the goal he had just caught up with became so far away again. Some members even quit because they thought we had lost the competition."

"But soon, my mentor came out of his gloom a few days later and became confident. I asked him the reason, and he told me the truth out of trust. It turned out that the news sent back by our lurkers in the Soviet Union, 'Probe-5' and 'Probe-6', had actually failed."

"One almost melted when it re-entered the atmosphere, and all the 'animal passengers' inside turned into ashes mixed with the molten iron. The other had an error of more than 10,000 kilometers when it was orbiting the moon, and no valid data was obtained at all."

"This is not something a small character like me should know. Under the background of the Cold War, the main battlefield between the two sides was not aerospace, but a private confrontation. We planted countless lurkers in the Soviet Union, and the other side also tried every means to plant their people. Since the first satellite was successfully launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, we have been conducting full-scale "deep penetration (anti-censorship)" in its aerospace field. After nearly ten years of efforts, we have fully completed the work."

“The background of the times will affect everyone and everything, but it is difficult for people to see it at the time, including me.”

"More and more news was brought back by the 'deep penetraters'. It turns out that in the past ten years, nearly one-third of the dozens of lunar explorations conducted by the Soviets had more or less flaws and failures. However, the Soviet space department was used to covering up most of the failures, and would only admit to real failures in extreme cases."

"This practice is not difficult to understand. In order to gain a little so-called 'advantage' in the Cold War, strategic deception was common. They were indeed more advanced than the Apollo program, but the problem with the Soviet space department was that they were used to this method."

"As long as the rocket didn't explode in mid-air or anyone saw anything seriously wrong, the only things reported to the 'highest level' were some brief text and pictures. There weren't that many live broadcasts or video footage in those days, and many people had no idea about space. Even professionals had difficulty verifying the authenticity, let alone the officials."

"At first, they may really just be doing it for 'strategic deception', but after doing it for a long time, it's like an addictive disease. Each of them has made great contributions, is loved by the whole country, and is a guest of honor for officials from all walks of life. Even because they don't have to be so 'serious', the extra funds also allow them to have extra material wealth."

"Anything that is wrong can never become right because they have faked too many successes before. The outside world and the Soviet high-level officials have much higher expectations of them than their actual level. This forces them to continue to fake more and more, until one day, ordinary tasks must also be achieved through fraud. Once exposed, a large number of people will suffer, either directly sentenced to death or exiled to Kazan. So it has become a kind of systematic fraud that cannot be stopped."

Hansen smiled bitterly:
"I asked my mentor why we didn't expose the Soviet Union to the international community. We had a hundred reasons to do so, but my mentor only gave me three reasons."

"First, the intelligence provided by the 'deep penetraters' is not taken seriously internationally and cannot be finalized. In the end, it will only become a matter of wrangling and will also sacrifice many deep penetraters in the Soviet Union, who may have been there for more than ten years."

"Secondly, instead of doing this, we should use the 'Deep Penetrators' to get back more technology. The Soviet Union is still slightly ahead of us, and stealing technology will allow us to progress faster."

"Thirdly, the other party's systematic fraud can also be used to threaten the top leaders of the Soviet space department and make them our puppets. However, this is not something we need to consider. The C*A people will handle it themselves."

"Sure enough, we got a lot of top-secret information later, which was of great help to our progress. However, the top leaders of the Soviet Space Agency, who were under a fatal threat, had something on their mind and their pace slowed down. They were unable to concentrate on technology research and development."

"Everything was moving in the right direction. We had solved a number of key technologies and spared no expense. At the end of 1968, we completed the first manned lunar orbit. This was the first time we were ahead of the Soviet Union."

"Just as we were preparing to make further progress, new changes occurred in early 1969."

Hansen wiped his face tiredly. Talking to the camera for a long time made him very tired.
But he must explain the cause and effect of everything clearly and present evidence, otherwise this video will be just like countless spam messages questioning the moon landing and will not cause any waves.

Hansen continued:

"Everything in the world is interconnected. It was precisely because of the decline of the Soviet space sector that our own top leaders suddenly questioned the Apollo program, a project that cost countless millions of dollars, and believed that we were wasting energy and money. It was impossible to complete a manned moon landing with current technology."

"The reason is ridiculous. Even the Soviets, who have always been in the lead, can't do it. They are about to give up. How ironic! Everyone in the project is unwilling to have their budget cut and is making every effort..."

"Many of us have walked out of laboratories and space bases and traveled across the United States to solicit sponsorship and lobby various departments. This has had some effect, but it is ultimately not as good as the full support of the country."

"Just as the new Nixon came to power, this big man who later became infamous brought us a turning point, but he also made a very counterintuitive request."

“He asked us to go to the moon this year.”

“I found my mentor and wanted to denounce the hypocrisy of politicians with him, but he said something to me that I still remember.”

"If the Soviets could fake it why can't we?"

"Especially since they have been caught and dare not expose us."

(End of this chapter)