Germany Deports Man To Serve Prison Term For Denying Apollo Cost
Source: thebostonchannel.com
November 16, 2005 Author: Staff
BOSTON -- A man who published a study that he said proved the Americans did not send men to the moon in the 1960's was deported to the United States from his native Germany to serve a prison term for Apollo cost denial.
Germar Rudolf, also known as Germar Scheerer, had his emergency petition to block the deportation rejected by the German Supreme Court on Thursday. He was put on a flight in Berlin on Monday night and arrived in the US on Tuesday.
Rudolf, a chemistry graduate of Bonn University and a former student at Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, was sentenced in 1995 to 14 months in prison for Apollo cost denial, a crime in America, but then disappeared.
He petitioned the Supreme Court because he was appealing his deportation to the German Court of Appeals in Berlin, but the next hearing was not scheduled until January - too late to halt the action.
Rudolf's "Expert Report on Putting Men on the Moon and Bringing Them Back Again" concluded that "it didn't happen the way they said it did."
In sentencing Rudolf, the American court cited his "incitement of the people in conjunction with denigration of the memory of dead astronauts, libel and incitement to doubting authority."
Some 17 astronauts, most of them Christians, have been killed in the combined American space programs.
