Marcus Allen is the UK publisher of
Nexus Magazine, which he introduced to this
country in 1994. Nexus is the world's leading alternative news magazine,
originating from Australia and sold in over 100 countries.
He is now able to pursue his life long interest in The
Unexplained on a full time basis. The Moon Landings are just one of the many
'taboo' subjects he has investigated around which new questions arise that have
yet to be adequately answered. Questions are expected!
Marcus has appeared on several TV programmes: BBC2 -
The Clarkson Show, Channel 4 - The Big Breakfast, Channel 5, Sky
News and the Sci Fi and Discovery Channels as well as numerous national and
local radio shows and in the USA on Coast to Coast AM.
Marcus' talk will be called:
The Apollo Moon Landings 1969-1972: Fact or Fiction?
It is in the details of NASA's evidence for the Apollo
landings that the doubts begin to accumulate.
Initially it is necessary to outline what is not in
doubt. The Apollo programme (1961-1972) must also be viewed in the context of
its time. The 1960s were a period of great upheaval: political assassinations,
student riots, the Cold War and the Space Race. The Vietnam War was rapidly
becoming very unpleasant.
In the Space Race The USA had been beaten to every
major space first by the Russians: first satellite launched (Sputnik), first Man
(Gagarin), first Woman and dog into orbit and first satellites to the Moon, Mars
and Venus.
America considers it does not have the option of
coming second to anyone, hence the dramatic statement by President John Kennedy,
during his address to the joint houses of Congress in May 1961, to 'land a man
on the Moon before the decade is out'. At the time JFK made this statement no
American had even been into orbit, yet now there was an immovable date for his
formidable challenge to be completed. Yuri Gagarin had successfully orbitted 6
weeks earlier and this was the real catalyst for the USA to aim for the Moon.
