Editing Moon Hoax (section)

===Alexander Popov===
Dr '''Alexander Ivanovich Popov''' (b. 1943) is a Russian senior research associate, doctor of physical-mathematical sciences, and author of more than 100 scientific works and inventions in the fields of laser optics and spectroscopy.<ref>A. Popov, [http://web.archive.org/web/moon.thelook.ru Man on the Moon? What evidence?], 27/12/06 (Rus.)</ref>

Helped by more than forty volunteers, most of which with scientific degrees,<ref name="Popov0">A. Popov, [http://manonmoon.ru/book/0.htm Ruin and curses awaited the loser], 2/10/09 (Rus.)</ref> he wrote the book "Americans on the Moon" (2009).<ref name="Popov">A. Popov, [http://manonmoon.ru Americans on the Moon], Veche, 2009, ISBN 9785953333153 (Rus.)</ref><ref>[http://labirint-shop.ru/news/4661 Struggle of systems], A. Gromov, 16/3/09 (Rus.)</ref> In it, Popov placed the burden of proof on NASA,<ref name="Popov0"/> and denied all Moon landing evidence, dividing it to five groups:

#Visual (photo, film and video) material that can successfully be made on Earth, in cinema studios.
#Obvious counterfeits and fakes, when visual material from ordinary space flights on Earth orbit is presented as Moon material.
#Space photos, attributed to the astronauts but which by that time could already be made and were made by space robots, including American ones.
#Devices on Moon (e.g., light reflectors)—by that time both American and Soviet automatic "messengers" had sent on Moon several tens of similar devices.
#Unfounded, unprovable claims, e.g., for about 400 kg of soil, overwhelming part of which NASA keeps safe and gives only grams for checking.

Thus he concluded that the NASA claims on Moon landings are left unproven, and pursuant to science rules, in the absence of trustworthy evidence, the event, in this case the American Moon landings and their loops around the Moon, cannot be considered real, that is, having taken place.<ref name="veche"/> He also confirmed Pokrovsky's results for the speed of the Saturn V at S-IC staging time (see above).<ref>A. Popov, [http://manonmoon.ru/book/22.htm What we know about the "Moon" rocket], 11/6/10 (Rus.)</ref><ref>[http://manonmoon.ru/articles/st11.htm A rocket so slow could not fly to the Moon], A. Popov, 28/4/10</ref> Popov accused the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee of trading the 1970s Détente for covering up the US Moon hoax and stopping the Soviet Moon programme.<ref name="Popov9">[http://kbarieru.info/201015?15_5_1 Half a step to victory], A. Popov, 16/12/09 (Rus.)</ref>