Richard Charles Hoagland, (born April 25, 1945) is an American author and a proponent of various theories about NASA, lost alien civilizations on the Moon and on Mars and other related topics.
Richard is, by career, a science writer as well as a consultant in the fields of astronomy, planetarium curating, and space-program education.
In 1965, at the age of nineteen, Hoagland became Curator, possibly the youngest in the country, of the Springfield, Massachusetts, Museum of Science.
In 1966 Hoagland served as NBC Television consultant for the historic soft landing of a U.S. spacecraft on the moon, Surveyor 1.
Later he appeared on “The Tonight Show” explaining the significance of the landing to Johnny Carson.
In 1968, for the Apollo 8 lunar-orbital mission, he was asked to become a consultant to CBS News, and served as a science advisor to Walter Cronkite.