The Rijksmuseum houses a "moon rock" from a gift received by the late former Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees, whose relics were donated to the Rijksmuseum in 1988, including the stone.
In fact, it is not surprising that the Rijksmuseum has this collection, because after the successful moon landing of the American Apollo, 380 kilograms of lunar rock were brought back from the moon. To show off, the United States cut the moon rock into many small pieces and gave it to all countries in the world and all the states and territories of the United States.
After receiving the moon rock from the family of the late Prime Minister, the Rijksmuseum has been careful to collect it, and it is rarely exhibited because it is too much treasure. Until 2006, a local "space exploration" exhibition was planned, and this "moon rock" was exhibited as a celestial alien, and it was during this exhibition that it attracted the attention of an expert.
Experts believe that this lunar rock is not really a lunar rock, because the nameplate writes that the gift time is 3 months after the "Apollo 11" moon landing, but experts believe that the United States cannot give away the lunar rock in such a short period of time, and it is still such a large piece.
After being questioned, the Dutch National Museum "verified the real body" of this moon rock, and on August 27, 2009, it officially confirmed to the public that this moon rock was indeed a fake, it was just a piece of petrified wood.
Since the moon rocks in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum are fakes, is the long-rumored "American Moon Landing Fake" really true?
Apollo landed on the moon
In the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union launched a series of competitions in the field of space, and the Soviet Union was in the lead at the beginning, the first to launch artificial satellites into the Earth's orbit, the first to launch the Earth's organisms into the Earth's orbit, the first to send humans to space, and set a "first" in a number of important projects.
But soon, the United States also exerted its advantages, becoming the first country to land on the moon and transporting two astronauts to the moon at once through the Apollo 11 mission.
The two Apollo 11 astronauts carried out scientific missions on the moon, brought back some lunar rock, and left some feces on the lunar surface in order to save the weight of the spacecraft's ascent module.
Apollo 11 was just the beginning, and since then a number of astronauts have been sent to the moon, bringing back 380 kilograms of lunar rock from the lunar surface.
However, with the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the United States is in a leading position in the field of space, and after there is no opponent, the United States has not continued to deepen the lunar exploration project, but has stopped launching manned lunar landings, until now there are no astronauts on the moon.
Today, the United States has proposed a "return to the moon" plan, but unfortunately, for various reasons, it has not been successful. And this has also caused many people to question, you know, the last time the United States landed on the moon was in December 1972, 50 years ago, human science and technology has been improved by leaps and bounds, and aerospace science and technology is far more advanced than at that time. However, the United States cannot repeat the technology that existed 50 years ago, and it cannot send humans to the moon again, so is the Us moon landing really a hoax?
In fact, the mainstream scientific community has never questioned the authenticity of the US moon landing, this is because when the United States manned moon landing, a lot of scientific instruments were installed on the lunar surface, such as: laser ranging mirror array, which is still running today, through this device, we measured the precise distance between the Earth and the moon, with an accuracy of up to the centimeter level.
The lunar surface has left a lot of lunar landing devices, such as: the lunar module is divided into an ascending and descending stage, of which the descending segment remains permanently on the lunar surface; the United States has also left many flags on the lunar surface, which have also been photographed by lunar exploration spacecraft, which is solid evidence.
Also, there are human footprints and feces on the surface of the moon, and if someone returns to the moon in the future, as long as they arrive here, they can even find these footprints and feces.
The reason why the moon rock collected by the Dutch Museum is fake may be that the family members made the wrong object when sorting out the relics, or it may be that the moon rock received by the Dutch prime minister was exchanged.
In addition, the mainland has also received 1 gram of moon rock donated by the United States, and used this 1 gram of moon rock to prove the authenticity of the United States moon landing. In 1978, the United States also donated 1 gram of moon rock to our country, and the mainland divided it into two, one was placed in the museum for exhibition, and one was given to Mr. Ouyang Ziyuan and his team for study. Mr. Ouyang Ziyuan published 14 papers based on this 0.5 grams of lunar rock alone, not only to thoroughly study which Apollo program this lunar rock came from, but also to know whether the lunar rock was located on the yang side or the shaded side.
Why is it so difficult for the United States to return to the moon?
Although the United States has been able to land on the moon since the last century, it must be said that the return of the United States to the moon is now full of problems.
The first is that the U.S. extravehicular spacesuit is not enough, the extravehicular spacesuit is actually equivalent to a miniature spacecraft, and is a miniature spacecraft suitable for astronauts, it not only has a life support system, such as: oxygen, a certain air pressure, etc., but also to be able to block cosmic radiation, maintain body temperature and so on.
Unfortunately, although the United States once had extravehicular space suit technology, but this technology has been lost, although it is now in intensive research and development, but the total investment of more than 1 billion US dollars, so far has not developed a set of extravehicular spacesuits that can be worn.
What is even more regrettable is that the United States originally wanted to block the mainland by technology, but did not expect that the mainland already had self-developed extravehicular spacesuits, but they were limited by the "Wolf Clause" and could not carry out technical exchanges with the mainland.
Secondly, the United States does not have a suitable launch vehicle, in the past, the United States manned moon landing rocket, the Saturn V, low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of more than 100 tons.
However, in recent years, the United States has not launched a heavy carrier rocket once, and the Falcon Heavy has a carrying capacity of more than 60 tons, which is difficult to support the manned moon landing plan.
That is to say, if the United States wants to return man to the moon, there are still many problems, and it is difficult to achieve in the short term.