TIL Soviets also tried to fake a moon landing but came clean
[](https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/soviet-space-program-pranked-nasa-with-first-moon-landing )https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/soviet-space-program-pranked-nasa-with-first-moon-landing/
[](https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/07/17/ventriloquism )https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/07/17/ventriloquism/
Even the US President Lyndon B. Johnson fell for the trick until Soviets came clean about the hoax.
Theodore John Kaczynski
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