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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EYE" data-source="post: 5239403" data-attributes="member: 213436">Involvement of the Soviet Union Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program_conspiracy_accusations" target="_blank">Soviet space program conspiracy accusations</a> A primary reason for the race to the Moon was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" target="_blank">Cold War</a>. The Soviets, with their own competing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Moonshot" target="_blank">Moon program</a> and a formidable scientific community able to analyze NASA data, could be expected to have cried foul if the USA tried to fake a Moon landing,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_landing_hoax_conspiracy_theories#cite_note-plait2002-55" target="_blank">[56]</a>, p. 173 especially as their program had failed. Successfully pointing out a hoax would have been a major propaganda coup. Bart Sibrel responded, "the Soviets did not have the capability to track deep spacecraft until late in 1972, immediately after which, the last three Apollo missions were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canceled_Apollo_missions" target="_blank">abruptly canceled</a>."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_landing_hoax_conspiracy_theories#cite_note-93" target="_blank">[94]</a> However, Soviet unmanned spacecraft had been landing on the Moon since 1959,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_landing_hoax_conspiracy_theories#cite_note-94" target="_blank">[95]</a> and in 1962, "deep space tracking facilities were introduced at IP-15 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussuriysk" target="_blank">Ussuriysk</a> and IP-16 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevpatoria" target="_blank">Yevpatoria</a> (Crimean Peninsula), while Saturn communication stations were added to IP-3, 4 and 14",<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_landing_hoax_conspiracy_theories#cite_note-95" target="_blank">[96]</a> the latter having a 100 million km range.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_landing_hoax_conspiracy_theories#cite_note-96" target="_blank">[97]</a> Additionally, Apollo 18 and 19 were canceled on September 2, 1970 due to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" target="_blank">Congress</a> budget cuts.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_landing_hoax_conspiracy_theories#cite_note-97" target="_blank">[98]</a> Apollo 20 had already been canceled on January 4, 1970.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_landing_hoax_conspiracy_theories#cite_note-98" target="_blank">[99]</a></blockquote>

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