Going to the Moon 2026

Yesterday Nasa’s giant new moon rocket crept from the Kennedy Space Center Aseembly building at dawn at 1 MPH, hardly rocket launch speed to escape the Earth's orbit. At turtle speed the Artmeis II reached the launch pad at nightfall. Sometime in February barring any foreseeable interference from 47 like egotistically renaming the Space Center after himself as he had the nation's performance center in Washington, the Artemis II will carry a lunar vehicle beyond the upper reaches of Earth's gravity to the Moon, the first such voyage since Richard Nixon defunded the Apollo mission in 1972 in favor of orbit missions. Ricahrd Nixon truly believed that the USA landed on the Mooon and he spoke to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from the White House on July 20, 1969. Almost 700 million people worldwide witnessed the Lunar accomplishment or nearly one-fifth of humanity. I don't recall having seen it.

I believed mankind stepped the moon and the bootprints from all the successful Apollo mission might have survived our long absence from the our pale companion through the cosmos.

I am genuinely glad that NASA has committed to renewing our exploration of the great unknown.

Maybe this time I will watch the launch.

And with excitement.

Next year Andromeda.

As my old biker friend Eddie Mikey said back in 1971, "Why the shit gets a foot high, step a foot higher."

And it's knee high under 47. The trans Orange Messiah.

The moon landing July 20, 1969.

Fly Me to The Moon 50

July 20, 1969.

The eyes of the world broke away from the Vietnam War, the Paris Uprising, and the Mets challenging the National League. Our vision was fixed on the Moon, as TVs and radios reported the lunar landing of Apollo 11 to an anxious planet.

This space mission had been inspired by the late-President Kennedy and Neil Armstrong immortalized the epic moment with the words. "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

July 20 1969 was a Sunday.

The next day I was working at Ma Bell.

A summer job.

I was 17, but have no recollection of watching the astronaut's first steps on the moon, which should have been as indelibly etched into my memory as the JFK assassination and losing my virginity and this memory lapse lent credence to those conspiracy theorists claiming that Man never landed on the Moon, but let's face the facts.

The Lunar Landing was televised by every channel; ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS.

Teenagers watched almost 30 hours of TV on the 1960s and being a teenager if the Lunar Landings had been on TV, then I should remember seeing them, instead recalling nothing.

Ergo no Lunar Landing.

NASA has yet to refute my analysis, but for further research into the Moon Hoax, check out this URL

http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/

One theory is that I could have been making out with my girlfriend.

On the weekends her mother permitted us stay at their house unchaperoned and Janet Stetson was certainly more important to me than a moon landing.

Even now.