Did The U.S. Buy Its Moon Program From Yugoslavia?

Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 16:40 in Mathematics & Economics

Apollo 17 Awaits Launch The trailer for a new film project asserts Saturn rockets, like this one, were mostly made in Yugoslavia. Photo credit to the Apollo Program, NASAAn attention-grabbing new "docudrama" puts forth a very unusual theory. That whole getting to the moon thing? Actually Yugoslavian. At least that's the thesis of a "docudrama" trailer that's been making the rounds, especially among Internet users in the Balkans. Yugoslavia sold an operational spaceflight program to the United States in 1961, just before President John F. Kennedy announced American plans to go to the moon, the video says. It's called "Houston, We Have a Problem!" and it's racked up more than 960,000 views on YouTube: Radio Free Europe talked to a couple experts who were doubtful. "There's a lot of coincidence in time, but just because two things sort of happened one after the other does not necessarily mean that there's causation involved....

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