Yes 50 years ago tomorrow two men first walked on the Moon, not sure today's youngster's properly grasp the enormity of what happened.
All three blokes from the Apollo 11 spaceflight are still knocking about - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins..the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle
landed on 20th July 1969 at 20.17 UTC and Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the Moon 6 hours 39 minutes late. Collins flew the Command Module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while the other two were on the moon's surface.


This is REM with Bruce Springsteen helping them out, they do a pretty good job together - 'Man on the Moon'

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If it really happened

Amazing feat.

Though unfortunately Neil Armstrong has gone to infinity and beyond, in 2012.

Brave and adventurous beyond belief.

Barry_Chuckle wrote:If it really happened

Well if it didn’t, along with any religion you care to mention, the biggest con ever.

I’m firmly in the “oh it happened alright” camp.

I'm not religious bobinho, so best avoid that one. I just find it hard to believe nobody has been back in 50 years. Such a race to be the first, then nothing.

There’s certainly been a Buzz about it this week.

Barry_Chuckle wrote:I'm not religious bobinho, so best avoid that one. I just find it hard to believe nobody has been back in 50 years. Such a race to be the first, then nothing.

NASA put men on the moon five more times after Apollo 11. Would have been six if Apollo 13 hadn’t needed the AA on the way there.

Barry_Chuckle wrote:I'm not religious bobinho, so best avoid that one. I just find it hard to believe nobody has been back in 50 years. Such a race to be the first, then nothing.

There were 5 more moon landings after Apollo 11, the last was in 1972 and by that time interest in the 'space race' had subsided and the USA had other priorities to spend their money on.

hampsteadclaret wrote: All three blokes from the Apollo 11 spaceflight are still knocking about - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

Sorry to break this to you but Neil Armstrong died in 2012.

Still not convinced Darthlaw.
I am a cynical devil though.

Hell of a lot of people to keep quiet for a hell of a long time if it didn’t happen on multiple occasions.

Interesting that they’re now thinking of using the moon as a staging post for journeys far beyond and looking to use resources on the moon to support this.

An amazing thing to achieve.

But space or the idea of space just baffles me. What a waste of time, effort and money. Looking for water on other planets. Why? We running out of room to put our plastic? Possibly, they’ve already littered space with junk.

Both Collins and Aldrin are surprisingly on Twitter.

Barry_Chuckle wrote:I'm not religious bobinho, so best avoid that one. I just find it hard to believe nobody has been back in 50 years. Such a race to be the first, then nothing.

There’s plenty of places you go to and think there’s nowt here so no point coming back. Blackburn being a great example....

Dyched wrote:An amazing thing to achieve.

But space or the idea of space just baffles me. What a waste of time, effort and money. Looking for water on other planets. Why? We running out of room to put our plastic? Possibly, they’ve already littered space with junk.

Same as climbing up mountains. It's because we can. And we are, generally, inquisitive.

Barry_Chuckle wrote:I'm not religious bobinho, so best avoid that one. I just find it hard to believe nobody has been back in 50 years. Such a race to be the first, then nothing.

Because it was a political thing primarily to show the Yanks to be up with and then ahead of the USSR. So the raison d'etre was accomplished although they sent another 6 missions after 11 with 5 more landings or for the flat earth society another 6 fake flights including one fake near made up disaster
Whilst this was indeed an amazing success it paled into almost insignificance by the "success" of Apollo 13 had of course Apollo 13 ever left the earth which it clearly never did according to some.

Darthlaw wrote:Hell of a lot of people to keep quiet for a hell of a long time if it didn’t happen on multiple occasions.

Yes because the general public have never been gullible have they

Barry_Chuckle wrote:I just find it hard to believe nobody has been back in 50 years. Such a race to be the first, then nothing.

All the shops were shut so they didn't bother.

The last crewed landing was three years later.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_DPrSEOEo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Must've been incredible to realise we actually landed on the moon.

Astronauts the new conquistadors

We actually went back 6 times, the last in 1972.

It definitely happened.

Barry_Chuckle wrote:I'm not religious bobinho, so best avoid that one. I just find it hard to believe nobody has been back in 50 years. Such a race to be the first, then nothing.

Maybe the reason we haven’t been back is because there is f**k all there!

They proved they could, but once you got all the samples you need, it becomes a very expensive hobby, and there are other priorities.

ClaretTony wrote:All the shops were shut so they didn't bother.

The last crewed landing was three years later.

And the pubs were lousy - no atmosphere at all.

I think the Moon is a hoax.

I challenged one of the Apollo 11 crew to an arm wrestle, once.

In hindsight I guess I should have chosen Aldrin or Collins.

scouseclaret wrote:Maybe the reason we haven’t been back is because there is f**k all there!

They proved they could, but once you got all the samples you need, it becomes a very expensive hobby, and there are other priorities.

So in that case why are they bothering in going back there 50 years later ?

scouseclaret wrote:Maybe the reason we haven’t been back is because there is f**k all there!

They proved they could, but once you got all the samples you need, it becomes a very expensive hobby, and there are other priorities.

Apart from Elvis, and a WW2 bomber, possibly others like Shergar and Lord Lucan may be there.

Evidence you ask. Here's a secondary source but it refers to the primary one:

https://www.workshopshed.com/2018/04/wo ... d-on-moon/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

FactualFrank wrote:I challenged one of the Apollo 11 crew to an arm wrestle, once.

In hindsight I guess I should have chosen Aldrin or Collins.

I see what you did there.

Buzz Aldrin is a Claret
He wears a Claret hat
He's to young for the Bob Lord
Cos he's not a grumpy tw@t
He suggested that the moon
Isn't very good
But the most lifeless place that he has seen
Is the sh1thole called Ewood.
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I think the Moon is a hoax.(lord beamish)
No its there i saw it 2 nights ago !!!

pureclaret wrote:I think the Moon is a hoax.(lord beamish)
No its there i saw it 2 nights ago !!!

You just think you saw it.

There's a good BBC podcast called 13 minutes to the moon, or something. The number of people involved was mind blowing, around 300,000. And not one of them has blown the 'hoax' in 50 years?

Fretters wrote:There's a good BBC podcast called 13 minutes to the moon, or something. The number of people involved was mind blowing, around 300,000. And not one of them has blown the 'hoax' in 50 years?

I think you will find a few have broken ranks , then disappeared

joey13 wrote:I think you will find a few have broken ranks , then disappeared

Disappeared - Nope

Pretended to have once worked for NASA - Yep

Died of old age - Yep

joey13 wrote:I think you will find a few have broken ranks , then disappeared

Proof required

Just watching "1st Man" the Armstrong Biopic movie...

Bringing back childhood memories

For all the conspiracy theorists..

mikeS wrote:For all the conspiracy theorists..

Tenerife.....

Wallace collects a Ben Lee clearance.

joey13 wrote:I think you will find a few have broken ranks , then disappeared

Barry_Chuckle wrote:I'm not religious bobinho, so best avoid that one. I just find it hard to believe nobody has been back in 50 years. Such a race to be the first, then nothing.

Jesus Christ

joey13 wrote:I think you will find a few have broken ranks , then disappeared

Ffs the worlds flat and the twin towers was a set up

Barry_Chuckle wrote:I'm not religious bobinho, so best avoid that one. I just find it hard to believe nobody has been back in 50 years. Such a race to be the first, then nothing.

I don't even think you're trolling, just ignorant.

4:20 wrote:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_DPrSEOEo

Must've been incredible to realise we actually landed on the moon.

He just said "no way, we landed on the moon". Hollywood trying to tell us something?

BFCmaj wrote:Sorry to break this to you but Neil Armstrong died in 2012.

Conspiracy theory...death reported, only to stop him telling all!

bfcjg wrote:Buzz Aldrin is a Claret
He wears a Claret hat
He's to young for the Bob Lord
Cos he's not a grumpy tw@t
He suggested that the moon
Isn't very good
But the most lifeless place that he has seen
Is the sh1thole called Ewood.
https://images.app.goo.gl/SJuXZB8afsdKR5E29" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Even the chosen tune is apt for the moon surface!

How did they take the pictures of that first step on the moon? Who was the cameraman?
Cameramen get no credit and yet they are always first there, setting up!

Neil Armstrong had the 1st selfie stick Ian m8 duhhhhh

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For anyone still doubting that it happened 50 years later, don't you think that during all those passing years the Russians might just have come up with some evidence that disproved it? It was after all a space race, and Russia lost. They'd be all over this if they thought they could discredit the Americans.