Teen Girls: Went to the Bathroom, Took 37 photos
On this day in 1969, 48 years ago, Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent about 21.5 hours on the lunar surface, and were outside the lander for only about 2-1/4 hours outside while Michael Collins piloted the command module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while they were on the Moon’s surface. They collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar surface material to bring home.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of people with access to a television watched. Their mission decisively ended the Space Race, and fulfilled the national goal proposed in 1961 by U.S. President John F. Kennedy: “Before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
Their safe return was far from sure.
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Randy Cassingham is best known as the creator of This is True®, the oldest entertainment feature on the Internet: it has been running weekly by email subscription since early 1994. It is social commentary using weird news as its vehicle so it’s fun to read. Click here for the site — basic subscriptions are free.
Comments? Sorry: Facebook retired their commenting system (they didn’t even bother to alert me). Just as well, I suppose, but sadly there is no way to recover the many hundreds of comments made on this site. Lesson learned: never rely on someone else’s site for prime functions, especially “social media”!
Since this site is mostly retired now (maximum of one new post per month), I did decide that since all comments are now gone that I would not attempt to install any new commenting system. -rc
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