My Top 10 moon ‘fun’ facts
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in Space on
Despite the fact that the moon has been in the sky for a while and it’s hopefully not going anywhere too soon, it’s been in the news a lot lately for some reason. Therefore I’ve put together my favourite top-ten moon ‘fun’ facts that I’ve gleaned in the last few days.
1. Yes, we know who the first man to step on the surface of the moon was, but Buzz Aldrin was the first to pee on it.
2. Despite the peeing, Buzz Aldrin was, and still is, a religious man and performed Holy Communion in the lunar lander. NASA would not broadcast it though for fears of backlashes from atheists. They probably should have left them on Earth.
3. The lunar lander has several nicknames, but my favourite was the ‘chocolate box’ because of its gold coverings.
4. Again with the Buzz Aldrin - most of the pictures of the moon landing are of him, not of ‘er, the other one.
5. The lunar lander had less than a minute left of fuel left in it, by the time Armstrong set it down as he’d had to adjust course to find a better landing spot as the guidance computer kept crashing.
6. This was probably because the processing power on the Apollo lunar lander was the same as a child’s toy would have today and it only had 64Kb of memory. (This is a shorter version of my Moon feature).
7. Buzz Aldrin had to be careful not to lock the door of the lunar lander as he left it could only be unlocked from the inside. Luckily he got that right as otherwise he and Neil Armstrong would still be there. Only thinner.
8. Google Maps now extends to the moon and you can view it in 3D as part of Google Earth! The landing locations of each of the six Apollo missions are marked on Google Maps. But there doesn’t appear to be any way of getting directions to my house.
9. A Nevada entrepreneur says he owns the moon and that he’s interim president of the first known galactic government. I am also Britney Spears.
10. All of the Apollo missions were faked by NASA. True story.
Bonus.
11. Nobody ever mentions Michael Collins.
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