It's cool when conspiracy theories are around for almost 40 years and then.. turn out to be true !Someone send me an article by the newspaper The Independent (thanks anominous person).
In short: When the Americans were racing to get to the moon first, the Russians tried to put their own unmanned spacecraft on the moon in the same location. Just to mess with the Americans I presume.
The Americans knew about this and the Russians and Americans both knew each others flightpaths so they would not collide in outerspace.
In the end the Russian spacecraft (luna 15, checkout the picture) crashed and the Kremlin has been silent ever since about this subject.
Fortunately a British observatory followed the whole series of events and they now (why even bother after all these years?) released their audiotapes.
Read the article (including the soundbite) here.
