[CobaltBlue]

Wonder how many on the thread are old enough to actually remember the first Lunar landing? Our special effects weren't good enough to fake it that well, at the time.

[Kay Soze]

Not only were our Special FX quite poor in 69 but so were our computers.

If you recall Buzz had to calculate the landing trajectory in his head after the on board computer failed!

Why would a faked landing have the on board computer fail? It would have gone of with out a hitch!

I was close friends with Andy Aldrin ( Buzz’s younger son) and spent many days with Buzz and his family when they lived in Hidden Valley ( Don Drysdales Old house).

Buzz was on the moon.

He was very depressed after the lunar landing because e he knew his career was over as he had no chance to make a Mars shot.