Yet conspiracy theorists apparently not only deny the Apollo 11 landing, but all of them!
Neil and Buzz were chosen as the first to set foot on the moon partially because it was well known the two had ice in their veins.
And i think the most profound example of their ability, and that of Ground Control - and above all that of God's grace to a nation that yet feared Him much more than now - was the Apollos 13 mission. As the nation prayed man did was no computer could do.
And then there was another mission that was almost aborted when lightening knock out the main systems, and one controller remembered this had happened once before during trials, and know what switch to hit to restore it, moments b4 abort. But the most inspiring moment was..
It was a simpler time — an era when the hearts of Americans were stirred as they heard the voices of their nation's astronauts reading Scripture to the world from outer space. On December 23 of this year one of those astronauts, James Lovell, Command Module pilot of Apollo 8, recalled that moment on Christmas Eve 1968 when he, Commander Frank Borman, and Lunar Module pilot Bill Anders took turns reciting the first 10 verses of Genesis 1, the account of God's creation of the heavens and the earth.
On that day 45 years ago, Lovell, now 85, joined Borman, also now 85, and Anders, now 80, to become the first humans to orbit the moon. And as an estimated one billion people watched on television — the largest single TV audience in history at that time — the trio took a few moments to humbly acknowledge God as the Creator.
The Associated Press reported that to commemorate the event, Lovell joined local high school students and a parent at the museum, with each taking turns reading a few verses from Genesis. Illinois Governor Pat Quinn hosted the event, “calling the broadcast an uplifting message that the country needed in 1968 and one that is still applicable today,” reported AP.
“Lovell said at the time the astronauts weren’t sure who would be listening and how the broadcast would be taken,” the AP account continued,” recalling that the now iconic “Earthrise” photo (shown above) was taken by Frank Borman that same day, an image that served to reenforce the powerful truth of the Scripture the three men read to the world below.
The ACLU of today would likely have sued NASA to ban any such mention of God and to recall the astronauts, as well the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft for containing a discriminatory "heteronormative" depiction:
