Finally: The True Apollo 11 Story Can Be Told

At last! The truth has triumphed!!!!

(/me luvs the Onion)

Gotta love The Onion. :)

Buzz Aldrin will be heartbroken when he's told the truth. I hope Neil breaks it to him gently.;)

Does this mean Buzz becomes the 1st man to walk on the moon now? LOL. :->

When Neil tells Buzz it's gonna be "Pow, Zoom, Back to the Moon Alice!"

ahahah sounds like someone has a buzz.

The landing was staged on a dirt lot in Wapakoneta. Maybe Pusheta Township.
I needed a good laugh, thanks for the link.

Finally, Constellation has a chance to be significant!

What a load of crap, I was there and from 1963 on in Huntsville working the Apollo Program and the telemetry and communications was from the Moon and not relayed from some location on Earth. We wrote the software and developed the communication systems. If a signal was relayed from the Moon we would have to have known all about it because of the way the system worked. We would have had to receive it then process it for broadcast back to our receivers. No way was it faked. You can look at all the pictures and make all the conjecture you wish, it happened and if some of the people are swayed by false claims, well that’s their problem.

Editor's note: Um, Jay ..... this is a satire article making fun of the faked moon landing conspiracy loons ....

So when Neil tells Buzz about this, will Buzz punch him?

In related news:

"Sherpa Who Led Neil Armstrong To Moon Dead At 71"

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/sherpa_who_led_neil_armstrong_to

@Jay

theonion.com is a satire site - this brickbat is aimed squarely at the Hoax-theory guys, not the great Engineers and Astronauts who made Apollo..

I don't think Jay is a real person. I mean c'mon. Jay was there in 1963? I don't think so. In 1963, I was still in diapers. Jay is a hoax and part of a reverse-counter-anti-conspiracy perpetrated by the Organization of Manic Gringos (OMG).

It has amazed me for years that the hoax theory guys think NASA could ever keep such a secret. Hell we can't keep a schedule slip or budget over-run a secret for more than about 20 minutes.

Dang! This is going to open a can of worms. Wait to Lovell and Haise find out that whole Apollo 13 thing was just a soundstage practical joke.

everyone knows Pink Floyd was first to land on and survey the moon; how else could they make the bold claim that "there is no dark side of the moon"

Not meaning to start another conspiracy theory, but didn't Neil chop off a chunk of finger more than a decade ago. In recent appearances for the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, the gentleman alledged to be Armstrong has all 10 of his fingers.

From DM:
"Hell we can't keep a schedule slip or budget over-run a secret for more than about 20 minutes."

Yeah, but back on 1969 we did not have NASAWatch. Back then, we COULD keep secrets.

I don't know.. Just look at the Constellation/Ares mess, and you begin to wonder if there is something to the idea that there was no way we could have done this in 1969 ;)

Satire asside, think of THIS way; would the Soviets have "gone along" with any attempt to fake the landings??? Hell NO!!! They were trying to beat us for cryminy sakes!!!

Hopefully there is room at the "inn" for these types, I mean is there really that much wall padding available to help cusion their landing???

Ad Astra!!!

Frak! I just knew I should have gotten a degree in comparative literature instead of Electrical Engineering!

Just a coda to this piece:
"One giant slip in Bangladesh news"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8237558.stm
"Two Bangladeshi newspapers have apologised after publishing an article taken from a satirical US website which claimed the Moon landings were faked."
Ooops!