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The astronauts seem highly agitated, almost belligerent in some of their facial gestures and attitudes, like they were under duress and being forced to say some things that they knew weren't true - and also NOT to say some things they might have really wanted to share very badly with the gathered press corp but couldn't.
Why do they act threatened and under duress and give each other troubled, furtive glances? Why does Neil Armstrong stammer and choke as he tries his best to give rehearsed, pat answers to simple questions about their experience of being the first humans to land on the moon?
Could it be about something very STRANGE they witnessed or something UNEXPECTED that happened on the moon?
Could it - as some have posited - been because they didn't really go to the moon but helped the U.S. Government STAGE the whole thing?
Collection: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Collection
Name of Image: Apollo 11 Astronauts During Press Conference
Full Description:
Apollo 11 crew members (L-R) Edwin Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins were amused by a question posed during a closed circuit press conference the night before they began their historic first lunar landing mission. The press conference with questions via intercom, was held under semi-isolation conditions to avoid exposing the astronauts to possible illness at the last minute.
Watch the clip for yourself and see what you think and feel about their looks, body language and stilted, choppy, very carefully worded speeches. What do you feel is really going on here behind the scenes and in their heads? Looking back on it all now 37 years later, doesn't it just about feel there's a gun pointed at their heads?
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Originally posted by Kandinsky
reply to post by spacevisitor
The physical and psychological strain of a Moon mission is bound to tell. Expecting these guys to come back with the energy to put on a show is bordering on ridiculous. 8 days of stress & excitement and they look tired...
Thank you, Mr. Vice President, Mr. President, members of Congress, fellow astronauts, ladies and gentlemen.
Wilbur Wright once noted that the only bird that cold talk was the parrot, and he didn't fly very well. So I'll be brief. This week America has been recalling the Apollo program and reliving the memories of those times in which so many of us here, colleagues here in the first rows, were immersed. Our old astrogeology mentor, Gene Shoemaker, even called in one of his comets to mark the occasion with spectacular Jovian fireworks. And reminding us once again of the power and consequence of celestial extracurricular activities.
Many Americans were part of Apollo, about one or two in each thousand citizens, all across the country. They were asked by their country to do the impossible--to envisage the design and to build a method of breaking the bonds of earth's gravity and then sally forth to visit another heavenly body. The principal elements--leaving earth, navigating in space and descending to a planet unencumbered with runways and traffic control--would include major requirements necessary for a space-faring people.
Today a space shuttle flies overhead with an international crew. A number of countries have international space programs. During the space age we have increased our knowledge of our universe a thousand-fold.
Today we have with us a group of students, among America's best. To you we say we have only completed a beginning. We leave you much that is undone. There are great ideas undiscovered, breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of the truth's protective layers. There are many places to go beyond belief. Those challenges are yours--in many fields, not the least of which is space, because there lies human destiny.
Originally posted by spacevisitor
Originally posted by Kandinsky
reply to post by spacevisitor
The physical and psychological strain of a Moon mission is bound to tell. Expecting these guys to come back with the energy to put on a show is bordering on ridiculous. 8 days of stress & excitement and they look tired...
Right, but look to these dates, don’t you think either that such a time period would be enough for giving them the opportunity to regain at least most of their strength back for such a press conference?
Apollo 11
Returned to Earth; July 24, 1969
Apollo 11
Post-Flight press conference; August 12, 1969 Houston, Texas
The First Lunar Landing PART VI
* REPORTER You are now national heroes and you've had a couple of weeks in isolation in the LRL to think about that. What are your initial feelings about being heroes? How do you believe it will change your lives and do you think that maybe you'll get another chance to go to the Moon or are you going to be too busy being heroes?
* ARMSTRONG Probably to get an answer to that question we might have to spend as long preparing as we had to prepare for Apollo 11. In the Lunar Receiving Laboratory we had very little time for meditation, as it turned out, we were quite busy throughout the time period with the same sort of things that the crews of past flights have done after their flights. The debriefing schedules and writing the pilot reports and getting all the facts down for the use of all the people who will include that in the future flights.
Originally posted by Phage
Bart Sibrel is a "master" of out of context clips and quotes. He is a jackass who deserved what Aldrin gave him. If I ever bump into him on the street I might do the same.
Originally posted by Phage
Aren't you convinced that the Apollo 11 crew saw an alien spacecraft on the way to the Moon?
Originally posted by spacevisitor
I checked it and you are right here, he said indeed 99,999, but I still going to cling to the one thousandth of a percent of his uncertainty because I wonder why he did not say that it was 100%.
Originally posted by spacevisitor
That is exactly the point Arbitrageur, because you said “they thought they were looking at a piece of the space craft” and that “they kept seeing different shapes which didn't seem to match the panel shape”, it is also very well possible that they saw and where followed by something else then a piece of the space craft.
And because of the today’s available evidence for an Extraterrestrial presence here you cannot rule out the possibility that it could have been a UFO/ET craft in my opinion.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by spacevisitor
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Originally posted by spacevisitor
I checked it and you are right here, he said indeed 99,999, but I still going to cling to the one thousandth of a percent of his uncertainty because I wonder why he did not say that it was 100%.
Originally posted by spacevisitor
That is exactly the point Arbitrageur, because you said “they thought they were looking at a piece of the space craft” and that “they kept seeing different shapes which didn't seem to match the panel shape”, it is also very well possible that they saw and where followed by something else then a piece of the space craft.
And because of the today’s available evidence for an Extraterrestrial presence here you cannot rule out the possibility that it could have been a UFO/ET craft in my opinion.
You sound pretty convinced to me. But maybe I misunderstood.
Originally posted by spacevisitor
Or, as always possible, could there be a much more simple explanation for it all?