The Knosuj Place Times today revealed that Neil Armstrong will be stripped of his "first man on the moon" title after testing positive for gravity-enhancing drugs. Buzz Aldrin will now be awarded that title "he only beat me out the lander door because I was stuck floating around in the lander, while he was able to walk across the floor due to his illegal gravity enhancing drugs" he told mission control at the time. Buzz's partner, who goes only by Woody, said the spaceman was delighted with the ruling. Armstrong's iconic first words from the moon, "one small step for man," will be replaced in the annals of history now with Buzz's first words "$h:t, he beat me out the door."
"Armstrong's iconic first words from the moon, "one small step for man," will be replaced in the annals of history now with Buzz's first words "$h:t, he beat me out the door."" The first words spoken on the moon were by Aldrin. They were 'Contact' and 'Engine arm off'. Armstrong spoke the first words by a man WALKING on the moon. I'm a hoot at parties....
Aldrin did indeed take a piss in his suit almost as soon as he left the lunar module. Probably wasn't wise to let an alcoholic take communion wine to the moon with him.
how lazy was michael collins - went all the way to the moon and didn't even bother getting out - must have been the worlds biggest strop
There was a big fuss at the time of "the loneliest man in history" and all that stuff (not by Collins himself though). They seemed to forget that John Young had done the same job before only two months earlier. He had the chance to walk on the moon later as the commander of Apollo17 (which would have made him and not Gene Cernan the last man to walk on the moon) but rumour had it his missus forced him to leave the astronaut corps (as did Jim Lovell's wife and Frank Boorman's too). As said, If you think I can bore over the Suarez business, you ain't seen nothing yet!
Some of the astronauts came back to become preachers. I guess seeing the Earth from that angle gives you a different perspective on all that humanity stuff. Nobody listened to them, anyway. No wonder Armstrong's stayed shtum.
We all know intellectually that the Earth is a ball of rock floating in space, but actually getting far enough away to see it must mess with your head a bit. I imagine many astronauts, confronted with the reality, got religion in the way primitive peoples did in the face of natural events so awesome they found them hard to grasp.
Well that was co-incidence, wasn't it? RIP indeed. Several of the twenty four did get religion, or have had some epithany anyway. Charlie Duke, Jim Irwin, Aldrin and others went into some sort of preaching or missionary work, but Armstrong was rumoured to have been an atheist (or a deist at most) after the death of his toddler daughter to a brain tumour. Sad thing is some d!ckhead(s) will now get a name for themselves by saying he was bumped off by the CIA before he told the 'truth' about the moon landings, likee they disgustingly did when Pete Conrad died after a motorcycle accident. I suppose those remaining are all in their late seventies and eighties now, so we'll have to get used to it. Very sad that he and the others never did get to see us go back to the moon, let alone Mars by the end of the century as they (we) expected at the time.
Well that was co-incidence, wasn't it? RIP indeed. Several of the twenty four did get religion, or have had some epithany anyway. Charlie Duke, Jim Irwin, Aldrin and others went into some sort of preaching or missionary work, but Armstrong was rumoured to have been an atheist (or a deist at most) after the death of his toddler daughter to a brain tumour. Sad thing is some d!ckhead(s) will now get a name for themselves by saying he was bumped off by the CIA before he told the 'truth' about the moon landings, likee they disgustingly did when Pete Conrad died after a motorcycle accident. I suppose those remaining are all in their late seventies and eighties now, so we'll have to get used to it. Very sad that he and the others never did get to see us go back to the moon, let alone Mars by the end of the century as they (we) expected at the time.
