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After Second Failed Launch, NASA Decides To Scrap Artemis Program And Just Fake Another Moon Landing
Babylon Bee ^ | 09/05/2022 | Babylon Bee

Posted on 09/05/2022 12:42:28 PM PDT by DFG

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – After yet another delay, NASA is halting immediate plans to pursue an Artemis I launch and will scrap the program altogether and fake another moon landing instead.

Future launch periods began to look uncertain, so the team decided that faking another moon landing is superior to continuing to plan and then postpone launches.

"This is just cheaper," said Jim Free, associate administrator for NASA's vaunted Exploration Systems division. "No one will be able to tell the difference anyway. The tech has gotten much better since the last time we faked a moon landing. It's not even close."

Free said the new plan will give his team a much-needed break. "With CGI and other technological leaps we've made since 1969, we basically don't have to do anything. This is much easier, and I've been saying we should do it this way for months."

NASA administrator Bill Nelson added that the team has gotten lots of practice at faking things ever since Biden came into office. "Those speeches where he sounds coherent and not senile?" said Nelson. "One thousand percent us. And let me tell you, those are a lot harder to fake than any moon landing. This is off the record, right?"

The fake landing is scheduled for November 14th in Burbank, California.


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: artemis; babylonbee; moon; nasa; nelson

1 posted on 09/05/2022 12:42:28 PM PDT by DFG
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Lolololol…why not?…everything else in the media is fake…


2 posted on 09/05/2022 12:44:54 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: DFG

Without Kubrick they will never be able to pull it off...

;-)


3 posted on 09/05/2022 12:45:48 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: DFG

Hysterical! My type of humor. I used to write satiric articles just like the Babylon Bee.


4 posted on 09/05/2022 12:47:53 PM PDT by NeverTyranny
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To: TnTnTn; DFG; cgbg; All

“Wouldn’t it be great if we made everyone think we’d landed on the moon.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw


5 posted on 09/05/2022 12:55:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: DFG

Beautiful downtown Burbank? Too bad Johnny Carson is no longer here to witness it.


6 posted on 09/05/2022 12:57:16 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: BenLurkin

Awesome - never saw that one

https://youtu.be/MKbwdTCL8rA

Gotta love the helos


7 posted on 09/05/2022 1:07:50 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: TnTnTn

lol one of the best ones yet


8 posted on 09/05/2022 1:07:52 PM PDT by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!S)
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To: DFG

Under the guise of doin’ sumthin’ good, they propose sumthin’ very, very bad.


9 posted on 09/05/2022 1:12:42 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: cgbg

They will need to find a director of color.


10 posted on 09/05/2022 1:20:27 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: DFG

Bill Nelson is OLDER THAN BRANDON.
I mean, c’mon man!


11 posted on 09/05/2022 1:22:18 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: DFG

Well, it was great while it lasted - we had a REALLY Great satire news site in the Bee.

With this, now they are just reporting accurate and truthful real news.


12 posted on 09/05/2022 1:26:17 PM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: DFG

“After Second Failed Launch, NASA Decides To Scrap Artemis Program And Just Fake Another Moon Landing”

sure, why not? probably all they’ll have to do is dust off the old moon set ...


13 posted on 09/05/2022 1:27:37 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: DFG

Steph Curry approves.


14 posted on 09/05/2022 1:28:55 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: DFG

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wRoMpeUGZ9I

This!


15 posted on 09/05/2022 1:46:24 PM PDT by Notch (TEX/MEX in Cali. [ Whole Lotta Trump Luving Going On. ] - ( DJT- VINI, VIDI, VICI ).)
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To: Vermont Lt

Yes since the main purpose of the mission is to land the first BIPOC woman on the moon... to prove that blacks are just as good as whites.

NASA has become a woke joke, like every other institution.


16 posted on 09/05/2022 2:24:46 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: BenLurkin

Another example of comedy killed by laughtrack.


17 posted on 09/05/2022 2:31:20 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: DFG

Showing reruns of the Martian


18 posted on 09/05/2022 2:41:55 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
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To: DFG

Another Capricorn One.(1977)


19 posted on 09/05/2022 4:07:01 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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