Little-Known Facts About the Moon Landing, 50 YRS AGO TODAY, from Q Post, "moon landings are real. Programs exist that are outside of public domain"" Today is the 50th anniversary of the MOON LANDING on July 20th,1969 and there are some interesting videos on You Tube. Even The JFK Library had talks today and a few days ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAnyAwCe_5k Caroline Kennedy speaks on this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbs2zBUhpyo Q Post 2225 Did NASA fake the moon landings?   Have we been to the moon since then? Are there secret space programs?  Is this why the Space Force was created? 3094804 False, moon landings are real. Programs exist that are outside of public domain. Q "When Neil Armstrong stepped down a ladder and onto the moon on July 20, 1969, the nation achieved an audacious vision. But there were surprising moments along the way and not everything went as expected. It was a feat for the ages. Just seven years before, a YOUNG PRESIDENT had challenged the nation to land a man on the MOON—not because it was “easy,” as John F. Kennedy said in 1962, but because it was “hard.” By July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong backed down a ladder and onto the moon’s surface. Along the way to achieving JFK's vision, there was plenty of hard work, drama and surprise. Here are some lesser-known moments throughout the epic U.S. effort to reach the moon. Moon dirt smells. A big question facing the NASA team planning the Apollo 11 moon landing was what would the moon’s surface be like—would the lander’s legs touch down on firm ground, or sink into something soft? The surface turned out to be solid, but the real surprise was that the moon had a smell. Moon soil is extremely clingy and hard to brush off, so when Armstrong and Aldrin returned to the lunar module and repressurized it, lunar dirt that had clung to the men’s suits entered the cabin and began to emit an odor. The astronauts reported that it had a burned smell like wet fireplace ashes, or like the air after a fireworks show.  JFK was more focused on beating the Soviets than in space. In public, President John F. Kennedy had boldly pledged that the United States would “set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people." But secret tapes of Kennedy’s discussions would later reveal that in private, JFK was less interested in space exploration than in one-upping the Soviets.    The Soviets covered up their efforts to get to the moon first. .Astronauts trained for microgravity by walking “sideways.” Civil Rights activists got a front-row seat to the Apollo 11 launch. Not everyone was gung-ho about the U.S. effort to land people on the moon. A few days before the scheduled launch of Apollo 11, a group of activists, led by civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy, arrived outside the gates of the Kennedy Space Center. They brought with them two mules and a wooden wagon to illustrate the contrast between the gleaming white Saturn V rocket and families who couldn’t afford food or a decent place to live. Buzz Aldrin took holy communion on the moon. When Apollo 11‘s Eagle lunar module landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had to wait before venturing outside. Their mission ordered them to take a pause before the big event.  So Aldrin used some of the time doing something unexpected, something no man had ever attempted before. Alone and overwhelmed by anticipation, he took part in the first Christian sacrament ever performed on the moon—a rite of Christian communion. Scientists were worried about space germs infecting Earth. After risking their lives for the advancement of humanity, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins had the dubious pleasure of being stuck in planetary protection quarantine on their return. Since humans had never been to the moon before, NASA scientists couldn’t be sure that some deadly space-borne plague hadn’t hitched a ride on the astronauts.  President Nixon was anxious the mission could fail. While President Kennedy had rallied the nation to land a man on the moon, he was assassinated before he could see the Apollo mission achieve his vision. That nerve-racking honor fell to President Richard Nixon, who had been elected in 1968. Watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take their first steps on the moon, Nixon’s anxiety reached a peak. If anything went wrong, he would have to manage America’s outrage over billions of tax dollars culminating in the death of two astronauts."  https://www.history.com/news/moon-landing-apollo-11-facts