Sir: If the pictures of the first lunar landing are indeed wholly or partly faked (Letters, 7 March), then one small question arises. How come no one bothered to fake any pictures of Neil Armstrong?
It has been a cause of irritation in the British Interplanetary Society and other like-minded bodies that no photographs exist of the first man on the Moon. He took plenty of shots of Buzz Aldrin, but by a strange oversight it appears that Aldrin never took any of him. Our only pictorial record of Armstrong on the lunar surface is a small and distorted reflection on the face-plate of Aldrin's helmet.
It is the sort of thing that happens sometimes in real-life situations; but don't try to convince me that any fraudster could be that stupid.
MICHAEL STONE
Peterborough
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