On this day, July 20 1969. The Eagle landed on the Moon.

[whitehall]

How many Americans remember that Nixon was president at the time? Most of the time JFK gets credit even though he was dead for 5 1/2 years. It's almost like the media erased Nixon from history.

 

[konradv]

How many Americans remember that Nixon was president at the time? Most of the time JFK gets credit even though he was dead for 5 1/2 years. It's almost like the media erased Nixon from history.

Why would Nixon get the credit for something that had been going on for a decade, when he’d only been in office for six months?

 

[Mushroom]

Why would Nixon get the credit for something that had been going on for a decade, when he’d only been in office for six months?

Do not forget, he was Vice President during the Mercury era, and when Gemini and Apollo were first laid out as the programs to follow. And as VP, he was the head of the National Space Council.

That has been the case since NASA was founded. And why for decades, the Vice President is far more closely linked to NASA than the President is.

 

[luiza]

Nobody has dared raise the question
Or ,did it really ?

Or ,skipping over that, nobody has commented on Buzz allegedly pointing out the audience of several craft presumably watching and digesting .

Let alone the peaceful protest before they blasted back where entities beamed messages saying
Don't ever return, ugly creatures .

 

[konradv]

Do not forget, he was Vice President during the Mercury era, and when Gemini and Apollo were first laid out as the programs to follow. And as VP, he was the head of the National Space Council.

That has been the case since NASA was founded. And why for decades, the Vice President is far more closely linked to NASA than the President is.

He ruined his legacy, so that was mostly forgotten.