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Topic: Russian crowdfunds spacecraft to prove Apollo
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-07-2015 12:07 PM
   
Vitaly Yegorov, a 33-year-old Moscow-based PR specialist raised more than 1 million rubles ($15,400) in just five days crowdfunding his proposal to build a spacecraft to go into lunar orbit and take high-resolution photographs to document evidence of the landing of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, as well as the Luna and Lunokhod Soviet-era space missions, the Moscow Times reports. The project made the headlines in Russia this week after the amount of money raised via the Boomstarter.ru crowdfunding platform reached 1 million rubles ($15,400) in only five days.Yegorov initially planned to raise 800,000 rubles ($12,100) when he launched a crowdfunding campaign on Oct. 1, but on Monday he wrote on Facebook that the campaign had "reached a million," which was 200,000 rubles more than he had asked for. "I wasn't expecting it. I thought we would raise the necessary amount [800,000 rubles] within a week," the enthusiast told The Moscow Times in a phone interview. According to him, the amount raised will only cover the research stage of the project. The cost of actually creating a satellite might add up to between $5 million and $10 million. Yegorov himself believes that the Apollo mission did happen but is proposing the mission "for those people — the ones who don't know what to believe and who to listen to." | |
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