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were begun by the Nazis during the war continued after the war both by the Soviet Union and the United States, they moreover exhibited much more coordination between them than the space programs of alleged rivals should really exhibit, especially at the height of the Cold War where the ultimate prize – the Moon – promised rich benefits in prestige and military position to whomever got there first.
    6. The Dark Moon Version

    British authors David S. Percy and Mary Bennett are the latest in a long line of researchers who question the historical record of the Apollo manned Moon missions. This is not to say that they are of the typical “Apollo-was-entirely-hoaxed” genre. Quite the contrary. As they put their own case, the purpose of their book, Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistleblowers, is “to question the entire validity of the official record of mankind’s exploration of the Moon especially the Apollo lunar landings. We are not however claiming that astronauts from Earth have never walked on the Moon.” 147 That is to say, they believe mankind went to the Moon, but that it did not happen in the way we have been told it happened.
    Like many researchers who question the official explanation of the Apollo program and its celebrated Moon landings, Bennett and Percy offer a compelling case that many of the Moon photographs allegedly taken by the astronauts while on the Moon were in fact photographs that were taken on a set. Like many others, they cite the usual discrepancies in lighting, varying angles of shadows within single frames, light sources from areas supposedly in shadow, and so on. Unlike many others, they do not cite these anomalies as proof that we never went, but only to raise questions about the official version of the way we went. And the Two Space Programs Hypothesis is crucial to their reconstruction of what they believe actually happened.
    On their view, the Two Space Program Hypothesis takes on the following outline:
     
    • The foundations for the grand space project were laid down during WWII.
    • The project was conceived and designed as a collaboration between two superpowers.
    • The Cold War was a convenient cover under which aspects of this project could be implemented and hidden.
    • All these machinations were orchestrated at the very highest level, with only a select and hidden few ever knowing the overall objectives of the project.
    • These objectives have not yet been achieved in full. We are referring to a project that has been around at least since 1947 – and it divides into several sections.
    • Put another way, NASA’s Apollo phase, seen by the public to be the end result of a decision made in the 1960s by President Kennedy was in fact only a small (but significant) part of a greater plan.
    • Whatever humanity has experienced concerning the rivalries between the super powers of this world, today, at some very high but invisible level, our attitudes are being molded to suit an agenda which does not necessarily have all our interests at heart. 148
    What is of interest here is the clear connection of the Two Space Programs Hypothesis to the famous events of 1947 – Kenneth Arnold’s first “UFO” sighting in Washington state and the later even more famous “Roswell incident” with all its attendant corollaries – but more importantly, to the events of World War Two. In this respect, Bennett and Percy are unique.
    Moreover, they repeatedly hint at a Nazi connection, or at least, implication to their approach, for “without the remnants of Hitler’s war machine, our first steps into space would probably have occurred decades later.” 149 According to Bennett and Percy, the deceptions that became so much a part of the public policy of NASA – deceptions already noted in this chapter in connections with other versions of the hypothesis – were already in place well before the agency had even been established. The policy decisions leading to these deceptions began, as