Meet man who faked documents, fooled NASA to become America’s ‘youngest astronaut’, earned medals for…

Meet the man who deceived the world by acting like nasa astronaut

Film 3 Idiots’ a well -known dialogue says, “School of schools are Nahi, uniform Lagta Hai,” that is, sometimes more important than uniform abilities. This was absolutely true for Robert Hunt, an American man who succeeded in deceiving the world in the 1980s, wearing only the right clothes and saying convincing lies.

Originally from Medford, Massachusetts’ten Robert Hunt acted like many things: a TV producer, sea, senator, baseball star, and even a NASA astronaut. At the summit, he received an honorary citizenship in Dublin, Ireland, as a fighter pilot and astronaut in 1988.

In fact, Hunt had no military or space experience. It was very good to do. “I was literally the best I’ve done,” he said in a 2025 interview with Space.com.

Uniform, lies and a childhood dream
Hunt’s interest in space began at the age of seven, and Apollo 11 MOON followed up. During the Vietnam War, he would secretly enter a marine hospital, wear old uniforms and imagined himself as a soldier or astronaut.

In 1979, he tried to join marine pads, but he was sent home before he completed the training due to a document error. Still, he didn’t give up his dream. Instead, he began to move towards military bases using false documents and uniforms to pos as a maritime pilot.

At one point, Hunt acted as a part of NASA’s astronaut training. He taught, showed the burnt kitchen tiles claiming that they came from a space shuttle, and spoke in detail about the missing tasks. He said it was planned to fly in the Atlantis shuttle.

In fact, they were all fabricated.

Caught his own network
When Hunt complained that a woman complained to a female police to join her son to join the navy, but later complaining about asking for $ 4,000 to help to leave the Pentagon Connections ”. An investigation revealed that Hunt was never a real sea or astronaut.

Police found a medal from the wars that took place before Hunt was born. He was arrested and a suspended sentence was given, but he once continued his fraud, pretending that the Navy was led by Elite Seal Team Six.

Eventually, Hunt was caught again in the mid -1990s and sent to jail. After the September 11 attacks and more strict laws, such as the 2005 stolen Valor law, he became identity for good.

Now Hunt in his sixties lives a quiet life working in construction in New Hampshire. When we look back, he says he regrets that he’s harming people, but he admits that his dream of being a big person for a long time has been continuing him.