BAD HARDWARE WEEK

The Rijksmuseum, more noted as a repository for 17th century Dutch paintings, announced last month it had had its plum-sized "moon" rock tested, only to discover it was a piece of petrified wood, possibly from Arizona. The museum said it inherited the rock from the estate of a former prime minister who got it as a gift from the USA Government.
The detection of a fake moon rock in the Netherlands' national museum should serve as a wake-up call for more than 130 countries who received gifts of lunar rubble from both the Apollo 11 flight in 1969 and Apollo 17 three years later.






The AP reviewed declassified? correspondence between the State Department and U.S. embassies in 1973 and was able to locate ten additional Apollo 17 rocks - in Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Barbados, France, Poland, Norway, Costa Rica, Egypt and Nepal.
The locations of fewer than a dozen are known. Where are the others from the Moon rocks production facility?
In Spain, the newspaper El Mundo this summer reported that the Apollo 17 rock given to the country's former dictator, Francisco Franco, is missing.
Gutheinz says Romania's Apollo 17 rock disappeared after the fall and execution of Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989.According to Gutheinz and other reports, Pakistan's Apollo 17 rock is missing; so is Nicaragua's, since the Sandinistas came to power in 1979. Afghanistan's Apollo 17 rock sat in Kabul's national museum until it was ransacked in 1996.

Apollo astronauts risked their lives 400 000 kilometers from home for Afganistan, Pakistan, Nicaragua, Romania and Spain dictators possessive pleasure? Congrats.
In one known legal sale of moon samples, in 1993, moon soil weighing 0.2 grams from an unmanned Russian probe was auctioned at Sotheby's for $442,500. NASA's collection of 386 kg of Moon rocks are thus now worth staggering $776B? Why NASA don't sell them to finance a lot of new daring missions, being now so tightly budget restricted? Almost all Moon rocks are possible worthless fakes !? That might be the real reason ! What they actually did? A loop around Moon. Apollo 13 made even a failure looping around with the lunar lander attached for the first time. From loop around they sent Moon automatic landers to pick up some rocks as a proof they were there.

Apollo 17 second astronaut on the right without backpack !

Disproof of Moon landing.

The Space Shuttle, so far, has killed fourteen people, merely trying to attain an orbit about two hundred fifty miles above the Earth. How is it then, that a third of a century ago, with less computing power in the entire rocket than in a present day twenty dollar Wal-Mart watch, NASA claims to have gone 100,000% farther, six different times between 1969 and 1972, landing on another celestial body and then returning, without ever killing anyone? Here is how . It was faked on Earth !