... or so they say ...For call me crazy if you like, but I do not believe man put foot on the moon. And believe is the important word there. We have all seen the television-show (although it was from a bit before my time), but ...
- Neil Armstrong must have been one hell of a witty man. I mean, here you are, the (proverbial ?) sweat dripping down your spine, you've just gone where no man has gone before and your very first words happen to be one of the best quotes imaginable. And the clicks of the radio-system just happen to punctuate your words as well. Wow ...
- Look at where we are today. The united world barely manages to keep one space-station (in close orbit around the world) up-and-running, mainly by using rockets that Gagarin would have recognized. Given the economic growth in the last 40 years, should we not be a lot further than that ?
- Less than 10 years (in 1977) after the landing the first Star Wars movie was released (and how long had it been in the making ?) . Pretty impressive television too, was it not ? Made with a lot less money than the Apollo guys had available.
- When looking at space-walks from the ISS and from the shuttle, I can not help but noticing how clumsy the astro/cosmo/taiko/... nauts look. How encumbered by there suits, which do not seem to have evolved a lot (just by the look) in 40 years either.
- ... there are loads of websites dedicated to this subject, showing proof for both sides of the story ...
