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This article is largely based on my book entitled Moon Landing 2023 – Science or Science-fiction?
Given that a 2019 poll, conducted by YouGov, found that 29 percent of respondents 50 years old or younger expressed some belief that the U.S. government “faked the 1969 Apollo moon landing,”, [1] this article will examine the evidence for the claimed ISRO moon landing in 2023; and the ongoing controversy surrounding NASA’s Apollo moon landings. Then we will dive a little deeper into the matrix of deception and illusion; and what may lie behind it.
The India Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Claim to Have Landed on the Moon
The India Space Research Organisation (ISRO) informed the world that their Chandrayaan Mission-3 spacecraft landed on the moon on August 23rd 2023, as detailed on the organisation’s website. We can view the video footage that ISRO has released as purported evidence of this historical ‘moon landing’. The following is a video posted by the UK’s Guardian newspaper:
According to Jim Bridenstine, who led NASA as administrator from 2018 to 2021, “They should feel very proud of this accomplishment”[2]. It is also remarkable that this incredible achievement appears to have been achieved on a shoestring budget. According to CNBC:
“In 2020, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) estimated the Chandrayaan-3 mission would cost about $75 million…But that rivals the lowest-cost lunar lander missions in development in the U.S. NASA in recent years turned to having companies compete for fixed-price contracts to build moon landers, under a program it calls Commercial Lunar Payload Services. The CLPS program has a maximum budget of $2.6 billion over 10 years, with 14 companies vying for mission contracts typically worth upwards of $70 million each. Overall, NASA’s annual budget dwarfs that of its Indian counterpart. In 2023, the U.S. agency received $25.4 billion in funding, compared to the ISRO’s budget of about $1.6 billion.”[3]
Considering that a Hollywood movie could cost twice that to produce it certainly sounds like an impresssive achievement for just $75 million. Here in Ireland, $75 million would build about 10 Km of motorway,[4]; and I note the 2016 movie Star Trek Beyond had a budget of $185 million – so to go to the moon and back for just $75 million odd is ‘beyond’ impressive. It seems to be cheaper to go to the moon that to build 10 km of motorway!
Let us consider what ISRO had to achieve with just $75 million. It is claimed by space agencies and modern science that the moon is around 240,000 miles away from the Earth. So, the ISRO spacecraft had to travel 240,000 miles to the moon and then achieve lunar orbit. The spacecraft then had to ‘descend’ from orbit onto the moon surface (apparently a distance of around 60 miles or more). Upon landing, we are told, the spacecraft opened up and a rover vehicle called ‘Pragyan’ (CGI picture released by ISRO below) rolled out onto the moon, in a purported vacuum at 1/6 Earth gravity. We are told the vehicle and rover stayed on the moon for two weeks to conduct various scientific experiments. All this sounds truly incredible or, perhaps… it is too incredible to be true.
ISRO sources said:
“Chandrayaan-3 will perform a raft of experiments, including a spectrometer analysis of the mineral and chemical composition of the Moon’s surface, returning valuable data on the properties of lunar soil and rocks. It hopes to confirm the presence of water ice in the region, which could supply oxygen, fuel, and drinking water for future space exploration.”[5]
Meanwhile, we were told, ISRO ground control on Earth attempted to communicate with the vehicle. We are told the rover is powered by solar energy – which seems an odd decision given the speculations of space agencies that the moon has a south pole with regions permanently in shadow. Furthermore, according to ISRO the vehicles are subjected to temperatures between minus 156 degrees Celsius at night to plus 121 degrees Celsius during the day, but have been equipped with systems to deal with this massive thermal stress. This is also interesting, considering electronic devices usually have a temperature limit something along the lines of -10 °C to 75 °C while in use.
Video Footage Taken by the Spacecraft While Orbiting the Moon – but this Looks Like CGI
The ISRO website even provides video footage of the spacecraft traveling over the moon’s surface[6]. This should be amazing to watch! Let us take a look here.
Wait! What is this I am watching? This footage looks like computer video game animation from the 1980s! What ‘on Earth’ is going here? The picture below is a screenshot from the ISRO video footage taken from the spacecraft supposedly orbiting the moon – does this image look real to you or does it look like CGI (computer generated imagery)?
Bizarre Simulation Video of the Moon Landing, While ISRO Employees Look On and Cheer Wildly
The two images below are of the yellow ISRO vehicle as displayed on ISRO-released video footage. These images were displayed to the ISRO employees at ground control as the spacecraft ‘descended’ toward the moon surface. The video ISRO provide is clearly CGI animation. Clearly, these videos of ISRO’s yellow-coloured spacecraft were not intended as real actual footage of the spacecraft landing, but as a simulation of what was supposed to be taking place.
Then, as the yellow-coloured spacecraft touched down in the real-time simulation, the ISRO employees watching this simulation in the ISRO command centre on Earth are seen to cheer and clap wildly in the belief that the actual ISRO space vehicle is actually touching down on the surface of the moon.
We are told the lander weighs 1749.86 Kg, including a 26 Kg Rover vehicle, 14 payloads, and the rover consisting of scientific instrumentation designed to measure various aspects of the moon’s surface and subsurface. For example, instruments to measure the thermal properties and the seismic activity of the surface; and an alpha-particle x-ray spectromoter to measure the chemical composition of the surface.
ISRO Video Footage of the Rover Purportedly Leaving the Spacecraft and Rolling onto the Moon Surface – Sceptical Comments on YouTube
ISRO provided the following video posted here,[7], by the UK’s Guardian newspaper. We are told this is actual real footage of the rover leaving the lander vehicle and travelling on the moon surface. It is little more professional looking, but, in my opinion, it is hazy, and does not look real – it looks like CGI animation or film production. Furthermore, there is nothing in the footage that enables anyone to verify it as being filmed on the moon – there is no point of reference, no view of space, and no view of the Earth from the moon that would indicate it is real.
Below is a picture of the ISRO Moon Rover claimed to be rolling onto the moon surface. The picture is a screengrab from the above video footage posted by the Guardian newspaper. A question has also been raised as to why, upon close examination, there appears to be no wheel imprints left by the front left wheel on the lunar soil (for example at 0.13 seconds in the above video).
After landing, ISRO claim the ‘rover’ took the following ‘real’ image of the landing craft.
It appears to me that the above hazy video and the above black and white picture are not proof of anything. Actual real video of the moon planet, or of any foreign planet, would surely be magnificent with detailed views stretching to a distant horizon. Just as there are detailed views of landscapes here on Earth. Instead, we are presented with CGI images, and a black and white picture that looks more like a few yards of barren desert that could just as easily be Nevada or a Hollywood film set.
Additionally, there are no stars in the background. On platforms, such as YouTube, people are leaving sceptical comments such as the following:
“So far only CGI computer generated images Where are the real images of the Moon? If you compare Indias moon coverage to a football game, 99% of footage released was of spectators, Godi media, ISRO cheering instead of the actual Moon Footage. I want to believe India went to the moon but they are making it very difficult. Looks like another Hollywood 🇺🇲NASA basement production.”
[Aside: Godi media is a pejorative term coined and popularised by ex-NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar for the sensationalist and biased Indian print and TV news media, which supports the currently ruling NDA government.]
The ISRO Picture and Video of Their Purported Moon Landing Is Not Evidence of Anything
ISRO provide nothing – no visual evidence – no reference point in the picture or brief video that would justify in any shape or form their assertion that they landed a spacecraft on the moon. It appears that nothing we can see here above enables us to verify this moon landing as ‘actually happening’. What we see mainly is a load of well-paid employees celebrating and cheering, whilst watching numbers and animation on a screen that justify in their heads what they believe is happening 240,000 miles away on the moon. Note that in the picture or in the video there is no point of reference, no detailed backdrop video of the Earth, for example.
Despite the fact that there is no point of reference in the picture or video, most people simply accept the narrative of the ISRO, and the mainstream corporate-owned media. It is unfortunate that many people simply accept these images and videos without question. However, due to decades of analysis of the so-called NASA moon missions a notable percentage of the world population know that the NASA moon landings were faked; and that any claims of a moon landing should be scrutinised.
The amount of data indicating the NASA moon landings were faked is significant, yet, you are unlikely to find this this data via mega-corporate-owned plaforms, such as google, Facebook, twitter etc., as all the major platforms utilse algorithms to decide what information will be presented to you, and what will not be presented. I also note an article by Professor Michel Chossusdovsky on this subject, which cites a 2010 Google transparency report listing over 151,000 items named for removal from since 2009. He states in the article:
“Google has introduced algorithms intended to downgrade independent and alternative media… Freedom of Expression on internet-based news outlets is being routinely shunted by Google… Google is already helping the government write, and rewrite, history. Here, from its transparency report, are some stats on the amount of information… wiped from the web based on requests by U.S. agencies:… 1,421 requests for “content removal“, Google complied with content removal requests 87% of the time.” – Professor Michel Chossudovsky
As I write these words in 2023, I note that this online knowledge filtration has become very sophisticated and the technologies utilized are known as AI (artificial intelligence). Thus, what has been taking place for decades is a form of mass-hypnosis, manipulation, and indoctrination of the public consciousness. This is, in fact, a central intent of the so-called elites controlling the corporate-media matrix, as detailed for example in my book Transcending the Climate Deception Toward Real Sustainability.
What? No Pictures of the Earth Allowed? Space Tourists Would Not be Happy!
It appears that even with the $75 million plus funding for this vehicle that ISRO could not afford to put a single camera on board pointed at the Earth to give us some high-quality pictures and video footage of the earth from the moon or from space. The rights to such amazing footage would surely fund the ISRO for years to come. So, we are expected to believe they can put a spectrometer on the moon to test the surface, along with the apparatus for several additional scientific experiments, but they cannot put a single high-quality camera on the vehicle or the rover and point it at the Earth? No, it appears our ‘postcard from the moon’ is to be a hazy picture of the ISRO Moon Rover rolling onto a moon surface that is not dissimilar to a Hollywood film set.
According to the ISRO the spacecraft used a camera and radar to scan the surface for craters to ensure a successful landing. Yet it seems nobody thought it would be a good idea for the camera to take a single picture of the Earth during the landers 14 day stay on the moon. What a pity. Snap-happy tourists planning a futuristic vacation to the moon would not be happy with this no pictures allowed policy!
ISRO then informed us the rover had completed its assignments and was ‘parked’ and set into sleep mode; and that the battery was fully charged and that the solar panel had been oriented to receive light at the next sunrise; and that they were hoping for a successful awakening for the next set of assignments. ISRO then informed us they lost connection with the rover and landing craft and “efforts to establish communication with the lander and rover are underway” (this was the case as of 28 September[8]).
Reality Distinguished from Illusion
ISRO’s ‘moon landing’ has resulted in a spate of videos being posted online ridiculing the project as “a silly charade” and as “another fake moon landing”, for an example[9].
The reality is that, there is way more evidence to support the assertion that man never went to the moon than vice-versa, including the absence of stars in the NASA photos, and no blast crater under the lander module. A simple camera pointed at the earth from the moon would settle the issue. I assert this will never occur – if it does occur it will be more CGI fabrication. In fact, it appears to me that there is no verifiable evidence mankind has ever travelled any significant ‘cosmic’ distance above the Earth.
In my humble analysis, the ISRO landing is not space history being made, it is just another example of the chicanery and trickery of the mega-corporate matrix; and the so-called elite financial network that controls it. As detailed in my previous books, a group of financialists have controlled the mega-corporate, institutional, and media world, since hijacking the money creation process in the Federal Reserve Coup of 1913. By controlling the creation and dissemination of money, the private banking cartel and their institutional networks that run the economic world, have been funding or defunding any media narrative, agenda, trickery, fake science, or godless chicanery they wish. NASA is part of this cabal of tricksters.
NASA’s ‘Moon Landings’ – NASA Received $2400 Billion of US Taxpayers Money, but Say They ‘Lost’ All the Technology and Telemetry Data
The ISRO moon landing is reminiscent of NASA’s moon landings, which are shrouded in controversy to this day. The following is an apt extract from an article title The Apollo Moon Landings are Science Fiction, published on March 8th, 2022[10]:
“Since the alleged moon landings, no country even claims to have gone more than 400 miles from Earth and that was in the Space Shuttle… There is a big difference between 240,000 miles and 400 miles. Why can’t anyone make it more than 400 miles from Earth today if we could make a 480,000 mile round trip in 1969?
NASA further asserts that three men were loaded into a rocket, flew 240,000 miles to the moon… and they then hung out on the moon for up to three days in 250-degree heat, hit golf balls, rode a moon buggy — but what powered their life support and equipment? They say BATTERIES.
They then supposedly blasted off the surface of the moon, docked with the third man going around the moon at over 4000 miles per hour, and made it 240,000 miles back to Earth. They re-entered Earth’s atmosphere going 25,000 mph, but parachutes assured a safe landing in the ocean. We hope you will agree that… proves the absurdity of NASA’s claim in a clear and convincing fashion.”
The NASA missions to the moon reportedly cost the US government, and thus the American tax payer, in the region of $2400 billion, yet all NASA have to show for it apparently is some moon dust and a few small rocks that they claim came from the moon. That is a lot of money to obtain a few rocks! Sounds like quite a lucrative deal if you can get it. NASA must be very grateful that the American taxpayers have funded the organization for decades. If you live in the U.S. your taxes are funding these tricksters.
How was it so easy for NASA to send multiple successful Apollo missions to the moon and bring the astronauts home safely, but since then not a single person has ever left low-earth orbit? What to speak of going to the moon? NASA have even stated “we lost the technology we used to get us to the Moon” and also tell us that “All the moon rocks were stolen including the safe they were in” at NASA Headquarters. NASA also claim that all the important telemetry data from the moon missions was lost or destroyed. Really? Is it any wonder that over the past decades there has been a growing consensus that NASA faked the Apollo moon missions in the 1960’s – that it was only a hyped-up TV show.
According to several commentators on the subject NASA has lost all data, blueprints and records from the Apollo missions. Following Freedom of Information requests in America NASA admitted it had lost original video footage, voice data, bio-medical monitoring data, and telemetry data to monitor the location and functioning of the spaceship, and original plans/blueprints for the lunar modules, space suits and lunar rovers, and for the entire multi-sectioned Saturn V rockets. They lost ‘all’ the alleged record of the moon landings, including 13,000 reels that are said to be ‘missing’! I once lost a set of housekeys, but you don’t lose hundreds of boxes unless you lose them on purpose. Something is clearly amiss. Even Wikipedia, states:
“over 700 boxes of magnetic data tapes recorded throughout the Apollo program that have not been found… On August 16, 2006, NASA announced its official search, saying, “… NASA engineers are hopeful that when the tapes are found they can use today’s digital technology to provide a version of the moonwalk that is much better quality than what we have today.”[11]
I humbly suggest that the only ‘moonwalk’ we will ever see is the 1980’s dance craze version popularized by the singer Micheal Jackson! In addition, NASA are supposed to have taken over 5,000 pictures whilst on the moon during the Apollo missions, but not one of these pictures is of the Earth! It is a joke. The Apollo moon landings were a glorified TV show – no wonder NASA ‘lost’ all the data.
Also look at press conference with the astronauts after their return from the NASA Apollo 11 moon landing, at around from 32 minutes into the video[12]. Do they look like three guys who had just been part of the biggest mission in modern history landing on a foreign planet? No, they look like three embarrassed kids who know they have been naughty and are just waiting for the parents to find out what they have been up to. They look to be full of shame that they had to lie to the whole world. Look at their faces – does it look like three men having performed the biggest mission in mankind’s history returning from a foreign planet?
It also appears that Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to supposedly walk on the moon, in over 40 years since the event, aside from NASA’s initial press conference, has never given one proper on-camera interview to anyone – ever. Why?
In the above book Moon Landing 2023 – Science or Science-fiction? I also detail many of the well documented anomalies in the video footage from Apollo missions, and other relevant topics, including:
- shadows on the moon pointing in different directions
- NASA brought 3 lunar vehicles to the moon that cost $60 million dollars each, but never brought a telescope to view and photograph the Earth
- the NASA astronauts were walking in Earth gravity, the video speed has been slowly and adjusted
- NASA even admit that all NASA’s photographs of the Earth from space are CGI composites
- the old and new ways of technical trickery used by Hollywood and NASA to ‘fake space’
- augmented virtual-reality technology, it becomes difficult to discern what is ‘real’ and what is actually computer-generated imagery (CGI)
- the space agency’s contract with a company that produces advanced virtual reality simulation videos.
Fake Moon Landings – Part of a Paradigm of Fake Science
Furthermore, the ancient Vedic texts describe the current time in human history as ‘Kali-yuga’ – a time dominated by large-scale illusion, cheating, lying, and demonic pursuits. In this current Kali-yuga society there is much fakery and deception, including the faked moon landings. There are the ‘cheaters’ and the ‘cheated’, and one cannot exist without the other. Why do people fall for such deceptions? It is because on some inner level they want to believe it. To challenge the mainstream narrative is unthinkable for the ‘connected’ masses hypnotized by the mainstream mega-corporate media and scientific orthodoxy peddling fake science.
When you use the gadgets and platforms of the current corporate system you inevitably come into contact with a mass worldwide collective hypnosis, a conditioned mentality that has been molded by corporate TV, corporate media, social media which is filtered and ‘fact-checked’ by computer algorithms, smartphone applications, etc. I ask who gets to fact-check the fact-checkers? The pressure to comply and conform with the accepted reality and cleverly designed propaganda of these collectives is huge.
For the past many decades, what many believe to be science is actually paid promotional narratives and ads by trillion-dollar industries that make up their own science, science that mostly benefits them, not you. These technological tricks are used to support large-scale bogus narratives, such as the bogus moon landings, and the ulterior agendas of the corporate-communist mechanics of the ultra-rich Davos Group. It is vast amounts of money, not truth, that currently controls the world’s economic and scientific institutions. At the root of this orthodoxy of lies are the private banking families that hijacked the money creation process and financial world in 1913 via the Federal Reserve coup. For more information please see my books Godless Fake Science, and CO2 Hoax – How Bankers Hijacked the Environment Movement.
As I described in my book No Worries No Virus it is difficult for many people that have for decades placed their faith in mainstream corporate-media to realise and fully accept that Covid-19 was a fake pandemic. It is very difficult for most of us to replace our ’window on the world’. Yet, the reality is the Covid-19 fake pandemic, was another engineered deception, in which mega-corporations sold billions of vaccines.
Conclusion
In my humble opinion this was not ‘India’s moon landing’, it was ISRO’s claim to have landed on the moon – a claim, which has not been verified. Given that millions of people realise the NASA moon landings were faked, it is incumbent upon ISRO, and all space agencies, to provide clear evidence of any claimed moon landing. The picture and video released by ISRO is not evidence of anything. For more information see the book Moon Landing 2023 – Science or Science-fiction?
In the book Godless fake Science I also describe that much of the scientific narrative we have been taught from our school days onwards, is based on falsehood, and that the institution of ‘science’ itself has in many ways been hijacked by financial interests seeking to advance their own narrative and agenda. This includes many sectors such as climate science; the fake Covid-19 pandemic; the biopharmaceutical sector; and neo-Darwinian evolution. Modern science, like economics, banking, and corporate-owned mass media, has become part of a paradigm borne by deceit, and corporate greed; and which paints God out of the picture.
One thing is for sure many of us got a good laugh out of this ‘space opera’, yet, the unfortunate reality is that billions of children are being taught this moon landing doctrine in schools, without a shred of real evidence. I am reminded of a lyric from a pop song: “if you tolerate this then your children will be next…”
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Mark Gerard Keenan, is a former scientist at the UK Government Dept. of Energy and Climate Change, and at the United Nations Environment Division. He is author of the following books:
- Moon Landing 2023 – Science or Science-fiction?
- Godless Fake Science
- Transcending the Climate Change Deception Toward Real Sustainability
- CO2 Climate Hoax – How Bankers Hijacked the Real Environment Movement
- No Worries No Virus
- Demonic Economics and the Tricks of the Bankers
Notes
[1] Source: https://checkyourfact.com/2020/02/21/fact-check-89-americans-45-moon-landing-fake-staged/
[2] Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/india-chandrayaan-3-moon-landing-came-at-small-cost.html
[3] Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/india-chandrayaan-3-moon-landing-came-at-small-cost.html
[4] Source: https://fora.ie/ireland-motorway-ibec-2677182-Apr2016/
[5] Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-023-00116-x
[6] Source: https://www.isro.gov.in/index.html
[7] Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrTtLze5Ydk
[8] Source: https://www.isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan3.html
[9] An example is the following video titled “India’s Moon Landing Madness” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inANVeIU_4w&t=6s
[10] Source: https://krishna.org/the-apollo-moon-landings-are-science-fiction/
[11] Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes
[12] The Apollo 11 conference can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzhyZQGAmzU
