55 Years Ago Today Three Men Left Earth to Go to the Moon

[Weatherman2020]

Just because Americans wanted to.

The amazing thing to me is just 66 years prior:

Armstrong took a fragment of the Wright Brothers plane to the moon and left it there.

 

[Crepitus]

55 Years Ago Today Three Men Left Earth to Go to the Moon​

Unless you're a RWNJ conspiracy theorist,

Then they went to a sound stage on a back lot somewhere,

 

[whitehall]

Poll the half educated generation today and they would probably say it happened on JFK's watch if they could even reply to the question. It was Nixon.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

That was special time in humanity, to witness the moon landing.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

They have been having a hard time to suessfully land a rover on the moon lately.
It should be easier, but they keep failing.

 

[candycorn]

Unless you're a RWNJ conspiracy theorist,

Then they went to a sound stage on a back lot somewhere,

Yeah, I keep waiting for one of them to chime in with their “bombshell” evidence.

 

[whitehall]

Armstrong set foot on the Moon on Nixon's watch. Don't forget it.

 

[fncceo]

55 Years Ago Today Three Men Left Earth to Go to the Moon​

A different America and different Americans


I don't think we will see either of them again.

 

[DudleySmith]

Unless you're a RWNJ conspiracy theorist,

Then they went to a sound stage on a back lot somewhere,

So all those black people who think it was faked are RWNJ's? Then there are the Brits ...

52 Percent Of The British Public Think The Moon Landings Were Faked, Claims Survey

52 Percent Of The British Public Think The Moon Landings Were Faked, Claims Survey

www.iflscience.com

 

[DudleySmith]

Armstrong set foot on the Moon on Nixon's watch. Don't forget it.

Because JFK initiated the moon landing plan and made it possible; New Dealers were the main people leading the Committees and Chairs. DEmocrats controlled Congress then.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Unless you're a RWNJ conspiracy theorist,

Then they went to a sound stage on a back lot somewhere,

Sorry, the science haters are of the same political persuasion that thinks humans can change sex on a whim.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Poll the half educated generation today and they would probably say it happened on JFK's watch if they could even reply to the question. It was Nixon.

They’d probably say Lincoln knowing our education system.

 

[whitehall]

Because JFK initiated the moon landing plan and made it possible; New Dealers were the main people leading the Committees and Chairs. DEmocrats controlled Congress then.

Because JFK initiated the moon landing plan and made it possible; New Dealers were the main people leading the Committees and Chairs. DEmocrats controlled Congress then.

JFK initiated nothing but pop legends die hard. He probably gets credit for tearing down the Berlin Wall when it went up on his watch.

 

[fncceo]

JFK initiated nothing but pop legends die hard. H

According to the book "Moosnshot" by Allen Shepard, Kennedy contributed two major things to the Space Program.

1. He overrode his own science advisor who was strongly opposed to a "space race" with Russia, which they believed we could never win and

2. He combined Redstone Arsenal project which was far more advanced than the nascent NASA to take advantage of the ex-Nazi expertise in rockets which Eisenhower was adamantly against ... for good reason.

Eisenhower experienced first hand V2 rockets falling on London and swore no Nazis, no matter how skilled, would come near our civilian space program.

 

[DudleySmith]

JFK initiated nothing but pop legends die hard. He probably gets credit for tearing down the Berlin Wall when it went up on his watch.

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/jfk100/NASA: JFK 100

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/jfk100/NASA: JFK 100

www.nasa.gov

Link below to a direct download of a pdf, for those on phones who don't do pdf's.

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4508.pdf

The idea for getting on the record the recollections of those who had worked on space issues in the
U.S. Congress during the immediate post-Sputnik through the passage of the National Aeronautics
and Space Act of 1958 came from Glen P. Wilson. Dr. Wilson, who in 1957 and 1958 was a junior
staff member working for Lyndon B. Johnson, had been involved in the U.S. space program since its origins,
and he convinced the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University and the Lyndon
Baines Johnson Library that there was a story that had not been fully told about the role of the Congress,
and particularly of Senator Lyndon B. Johnson and those that worked with him, in the process that resulted
in setting up a new civilian space agency in 1958. The two organizations at Glen’s urging decided to
work together to bring together as many as possible of those who were involved in that process and to
let them reminisce about their involvement in the events of 1957 and 1958.


Ike gets credit for merely being prez when LBJ log rolled the NASA bill through Congress and the Senate. Republicans almost killed it , but both LBJ and JFK saved it and got Congress to increase it's budget and lobbied or the moon shot. The GOP never did anything except cry for corporate welfare and big tax breaks for swindlers and deadbeats, pretty much the same as they do today, outside of Trump's agendas, which they have to pretend they support to keep their do nothing jobs.

In the 1950's nobody in the Senate or the House could wipe their own noses unless Rayburn and Johnson told them they could.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Today was the landing.
I was watching a TV in the TV section at a department store when they landed. Everyone in the store applauded.

 

[petro]

Unless you're a RWNJ conspiracy theorist,

Then they went to a sound stage on a back lot somewhere,

Seriously?
We can't have one thread without you spouting your toxic political idiocy?

 

[Captain Caveman]

Just because Americans wanted to.
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The amazing thing to me is just 66 years prior:
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Armstrong took a fragment of the Wright Brothers plane to the moon and left it there.

Interesting fact, planes existed before the Wright brothers, it's just that it didn't take off

 

[Oddball]

 

[Oddball]

Unless you're a RWNJ conspiracy theorist,

Then they went to a sound stage on a back lot somewhere,