And that landing was a hoax!

lorien1973 on August 31, 2007 at 10:05 PM

Wait. Wait. 1968? Are they talking about manned or unmanned? The first manned mission was in 1969.

amerpundit on August 31, 2007 at 10:19 PM

I don’t know, man. I have trouble with dates too. I mean, every year I get older, my birth year changes so I don’t actually age. First it was 1976, now it’s 1986. Soon, I’ll be a fetus.

Plus I’ve never ever traveled to the Middle East - at least that’s what my liberal friends tell me. Moral authority, don’t you know.

mjk on August 31, 2007 at 10:25 PM

Gah - who still takes the French or the Russians seriously?

reaganaut on August 31, 2007 at 10:35 PM

And that landing was a hoax!

lorien1973 on August 31, 2007 at 10:05 PM

Dude, start running, Buzz Aldrin is gonna destroy you.

Bad Candy on August 31, 2007 at 10:37 PM

“The only moon landing in history is NASA’s Apollo expedition in 1968.”

Meh, close enough for the French.

(Why the hell did we save their asses again? Twice?)

infidel4life on August 31, 2007 at 10:44 PM

What do you expect from people who can’t tell the difference between unspent cartridges and spent bullets?

CurtZHP on August 31, 2007 at 10:53 PM

Oh…and Hell, the Brits can even remember the day we landed. Check out MONOCHROME by the Sundays. Beeeeautiful song. It’ll make ya cry.

tickleddragon on August 31, 2007 at 11:00 PM

It was all filmed in a Hollywood back lot.
- Truther

Kini on August 31, 2007 at 11:08 PM

Méthode Champenoise is still bubbles in wine, you just can’t call it Champagne. After several bottles, you can rewrite history any way you want.

Kini on August 31, 2007 at 11:16 PM

Wiki gets it right. Not so the Russians.

It was one of those events that you always remember where you were when it happened. I was in Mobile, Alabama in 1969, I think it was a Sunday night, when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. I still remember looking outside through the glass door up at the moon in the sky in wonder that men were actually on that moon.

INC on August 31, 2007 at 11:30 PM

Seriously…..Christmas 68….sitting in my cousin’s living room watching Apollo 8 broadcast from it’s transit around the moon. Or July 69, in a motel in Wyoming, watching Mr. Armstrong walk on the moon. How can anyone near my age NOT remember where they were or what they were doing? It was history writ large. This is not to my friends here but to those who wrote that crud……’Turn off MTV and read a friggin book already!’.

Limerick on August 31, 2007 at 11:28 PM

Yea, that was Boss man.

Speakup on August 31, 2007 at 11:40 PM

Hot off CNN’s press. Marine Drone over haditha does NOT show civilians being killed. Video backs up Marines claims !

FU Murtha !

William Amos on August 31, 2007 at 11:41 PM

For the 1st moon landing I have film I took off the TV screen at the motel…I had an old Leica and guessed the exposure time…..every one came out. Now I’m rambling…..more brain cells down the drain.

Limerick on August 31, 2007 at 11:47 PM

you now owe me a keyboard

Limerick on August 31, 2007 at 11:41 PM

LMAO

Oh Lord wontchya buy me a Mercedees Benz, all my friends drive Porchees ah must make aamends

It’s your own fault, that’s what you get for being so d*mned old.

More than a few years ago when I turned thirty, a friend gave me a button that said: Tease me about my age and I’ll hit you with my cane.

Five years later when he turned thirty, I gave it back to him.

Speakup on August 31, 2007 at 11:51 PM

William Amos on August 31, 2007 at 11:41 PM

Excellent

Spirit of 1776 on August 31, 2007 at 11:53 PM

Considering that AFP is a French outfit… HOW DARE YOU MOCK THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF SPACE TRAVEL AND ASTRONOMY!!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dMFsuBlkoIQ

RightWinged on August 31, 2007 at 11:56 PM

RightWinged on August 31, 2007 at 11:56 PM

Bwahahaha! Is that for real?

infidel4life on September 1, 2007 at 12:08 AM

Sacre Merde!

JayHaw Phrenzie on September 1, 2007 at 12:14 AM

Guardian on September 1, 2007 at 12:22 AM

LOL. Twice!

progressoverpeace on September 1, 2007 at 12:30 AM

Depending on whether damage sufficient to render the primary mission undoable but insufficient to kill communication with the spacecraft counts as a “landing”, there have been either 18 or 19 lunar landings, with exactly one of those landings, notably not an Apollo mission, happening in 1968.

steveegg on September 1, 2007 at 1:03 AM

“I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a rover on the moon. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Mooninites, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not on the moon. I have that memory which is seared — seared — in me….”

BDavis on September 1, 2007 at 12:58 AM

Beat me to the punch.

I second the nomination for comment of the week.

Texas Nick 77 on September 1, 2007 at 1:48 AM

BDavis-

LOL!

Genghis Khan couldn’t have said it better.

profitsbeard on September 1, 2007 at 3:13 AM

You’re a bunch of sheep who’ve been duped by the military-industrial complex.

The moon landing was an obvious fake by the facist imperialist US government, evidenced by the fact that there is no moon. Bush / Cheney used the money from the fake “moon landing” to finance the immoral and illegal war on Vietnam. All to take control of their vast rice reserves for their corporate masters.

Never in history has a big rock just floated there. The Jews used their vast media influence to convince you the moon exists, but it’s all smoke and mirrors.

Hollowpoint on September 1, 2007 at 3:53 AM

*Imitates the AFLAC Duck from the Yogi Berra commercial.*

EEEHHHHHH?????????

Hawkins1701 on September 1, 2007 at 4:17 AM

Dude, start running, Buzz Aldrin is gonna destroy you.

Bad Candy on August 31, 2007 at 10:37 PM

Buzz has always been a hero of mine!

Ordinary1 on September 1, 2007 at 6:32 AM

I don’t mind terribly that the French paper missed the date by one year, but they forgot to mention that the “only landing” was made by the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!! “NASA” is not a country. “US” barely gets mentioned in the following paragraph.

I worked on the Surveyor project while in graduate school from 1965 to 1967. 5 of the 7 attempts were completely successful. Ahem. Before Surveyor I landed, many thought that there might be a 100 foot deep layer of “moondust”, definitely a hazard for manned landings.

For a lunar exploration chronology:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunartimeline.html

Great resource if you want to view the ISS (and sometimes also the Shuttle) yourself:
http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/skywatch.cgi?country=United+States

It is spectacular to see something as bright as Venus cross the sky for up to 4 minutes, especially just after dusk!

fred5678 on September 1, 2007 at 6:42 AM

“I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a rover on the moon. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Mooninites, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not on the moon. I have that memory which is seared — seared — in me….”

BDavis on September 1, 2007 at 12:58 AM

I remember something more recently about those Mooninites attacking Boston on January 31, 2007…

kiakjones on September 1, 2007 at 9:14 AM

Cool link from NASA: http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html

Where is the Space Station, and sometimes the Shuttle, at this time?

Texas Nick 77 on September 1, 2007 at 9:59 AM

I was 9 years old. I convinced my parents to by me a Reflector Telescope so I could see the Lunar module. They sacrificed a lot to get that for me. I never was able to get a clear image, possibly because the telescope’s low power. But I was able to detect a metallic glimmer in the area listed by NASA. My interest in all things Science was firmly set. After nearly 40 years, technological advancements have caused our society to become blasé over such events. But as for me, whenever I see images of the Lunar module the kid in me rises. I still remember when my high school’s Engineering Science department sponsored a visit by a NASA engineer, detailing the new tracking systems they will be using on the up coming Space Shuttle program. Followed that fall by the rollout of the Enterprise. I know some people will always try to destroy what others cherish. Mainly to appease the demon that is constantly tormenting them. Or just out of a sense of superiority. Sometimes they are successful. And when that occurs, they drag the rest of us into the dark place with them.

Zaire67 on September 1, 2007 at 1:42 PM

Cool link from NASA: http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html

Where is the Space Station, and sometimes the Shuttle, at this time?

Texas Nick 77 on September 1, 2007 at 9:59 AM

The link I gave:

http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/skywatch.cgi?country=United+States

is the main index for United States. Click on your state, then click on your city, and view the details of upcoming sighting opportunities (ISS is not visible every night! Has to be at sunset/sunrise, while you are in darkness abd ISS still in sunlight) You can also enter lat/lon on another page.

For San Francico, for example:

THE FOLLOWING ISS SIGHTINGS ARE POSSIBLE FROM FRI AUG 31 TO WED SEP 12
SATELLITE LOCAL DURATION MAX ELEV APPROACH DEPARTURE
DATE/TIME (MIN) (DEG) (DEG-DIR) (DEG-DIR)

ISS Fri Sep 07/06:03 AM 2 14 10 above SSE 13 above ESE
ISS Sun Sep 09/05:13 AM 3 13 10 above SSE 11 above ESE
ISS Mon Sep 10/05:35 AM 2 47 28 above SSW 33 above E
ISS Tue Sep 11/05:57 AM 4 42 19 above W 12 above NE
ISS Wed Sep 12/04:47 AM

fred5678 on September 1, 2007 at 2:51 PM