THE FIRST MOONLANDING FACTS AND
WHY I THINK THEY FAKED IT.
Facts:
- July 20, 1969 - [4:17 pm EDT] Apollo 11 becomes the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon.
- Neil Armstrong (commander), Buzz Aldrin (lunar module pilot) and Michael Collins (command module pilot) were the crew.
- The Apollo 11 spacecraft consisted of the command module, Columbia, and the lunar module, Eagle.
- The crew traveled 240,000 miles from the Earth to the moon in 76 hours.
- ABC, CBS, and NBC spent, collectively, between $11 million and $12 million on Apollo 11 coverage and covered the mission from Sunday morning until Monday evening.
Beware of false knowledge it is more
dangerous than ignorance
--George Brenard Shaw.