Checking out stories of incredible coincidences. Good luck, Mr. Gorski, and other lies about the moon What Armstrong said when he stepped on the moon

"Do you want oral sex? This caress
Taste with interest? I'll give you some slack,
When the boy is behind the stupid ball
He climbed into our garden and flies to the moon!" -

Mrs. Gorski screamed and swore,
And Mr. Gorski was muttering something.
Under the windows, listening to the echoes,
The boy hid as if he wasn’t breathing.

Let someone say that we are not gods,
But that boy still stepped
To the lunar ball. The earth wheezes in alarm, -
“Answer me, boy, we love you, Neil!”

He breathed with happiness - he had passed the highest level.
Amazing!.. in this dream my mind was swimming...
Even if a skeptic says, “He wasn’t there at all!”
But, damn it, he was just there!

Let there be no water, just thimbles
In the seas frozen between lunar rocks.
He remembered the house... and simply, without acting, -
“Good luck, Mr. Gorski!” he suddenly said.

Level - (English) level.
The photo for the poem shows the footprint of a man on the moon.

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 lunar module commander Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the surface of the Moon.
After that, he said his famous words: “This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for humanity.”
There is a legend that before returning to the lander, Armstrong dropped a mysterious phrase: “Good luck to you, Mr. Gorski!”
They asked Armstrong what this phrase meant, but he only smiled in response.
On July 5, 1995, during a press conference in Tampa Bay, Florida, a reporter asked Armstrong a 26-year-old question. This time he answered because by this time Mr. Gorski had already died.
In 1938, when Armstrong was just a child, he was playing baseball behind his house with his friend. A baseball accidentally flew into the neighboring yard and landed near the bedroom window.
Armstrong's neighbors were Mr. and Mrs. Gorski. As little Neil bent down to pick up the ball, he heard Mrs. Gorski arguing with her husband: “You want oral sex? Do you want oral sex? You'll get it when the boy next door walks on the moon!"
The conclusion is simple. Sometimes the most impossible becomes reality.

Alexander Tulbu, 08/08/2013

Reviews

Cool!!!
Although the beginning looks a little harsh, I won’t recommend changing “oral sex” to something else (as the previous reader advised, see for yourself...), but it wouldn’t hurt to put the first quatrain in quotation marks.
I heard this story, I believe that Neil would hardly be ashamed of such a lie (and even with an intrigue 26 years long).
And the verse itself is very good! (just don’t consider it tedious, in the line “There may be no water, but there may be thimbles”, logically instead of “but” “only” is more suitable, I hope I didn’t offend you with these remarks).
But in fact, the event is historical, think about it, people - this is the first family scandal that went beyond the boundaries of planet Earth!!!
Thanks for the verse!

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Modern communication technologies, led by His Majesty the Internet, have made us believe in the illusion of an “open information space.” Often we don’t even realize how naively trusting our mind is at the moment when we are reading a newspaper, watching TV or soaring over the vastness of the global network. Judge for yourself.

Fact No. 1. Good joke

In 1848, the tradesman Nikifor Nikitin “for seditious speeches about a flight to the Moon” was exiled not just anywhere, but to the distant settlement of Baikonur! There are coincidences in life.

This funny legend looks very believable and sets you in a sarcastic mood. It was first published in 1974 in the newspaper “Dnepr Evening”. The author of the note is V. Pimenov, a researcher at the Dnepropetrovsk Historical Museum. This “gelerter” claimed that the museum’s library preserved an issue of the newspaper “Moskovskie Provincial Gazette” for 1848, which mentioned the fact about the tradesman Nikitin. After some time, some enterprising reader reported this note to the Izvestia newspaper, and off it went.
was driving... The story of the unlucky tradesman spread throughout the entire Union.

But there were meticulous people who did not take his word for it and decided to find the original source in the archives - that very issue of the newspaper “Moskovskie Provincial Gazette”. It soon became clear that there was no trace of any note about the tradesman Nikitin, and Pimenov himself later admitted that he simply made up this story and did not at all expect that a few lines in a provincial newspaper could cause such a stir.

It’s good that the deception was discovered quite quickly, because the habit of inventing facts could have been to the taste of a museum employee. The history of journalism knows many resourceful authors who, over the years, managed to describe in their articles what happened, as they say, on Russian Bay Ram and Turkish Easter.

Fact No. 2. Good luck, Mr. Gorski!

When American astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon, the first thing he said was: “I wish you success, Mr. Gorski!” As a child, Armstrong accidentally overheard a quarrel between neighbors - a married couple named Gorski. Mrs. Gorski scolded her husband: “The neighbor boy would sooner fly to the moon than you satisfy a woman!”

The whole story about the unlucky neighbor of “America’s greatest hero” is nothing more than an indecent joke in the style of stand-up comedy. Neil Armstrong himself first heard it in 1994, performed by comedian Buddy Hackett, which he later wrote about. Apparently, he liked the joke, because in 1995, during the famous press conference in Florida, he retold it live on national radio.

It is this interview that is still considered proof that Armstrong really said this phrase when he set foot on the moon. But he simply voiced a well-known joke, nothing more. Particularly convinced supporters of this legend can find on the Internet a recording of Armstrong’s negotiations with NASA employees during the landing and personally see that there is not a single word in them about the unfortunate Mr. Gorski. It's a pity.

Facts No. 3, 4, 5. Book of Miracles

Residents of a Scottish village watched the film “Around the World in 80 Days” at the local cinema. At the moment when the movie characters sat down in the balloon's basket and cut the rope, a strange crack was heard. It turned out that... a balloon just like in the movies fell on the roof of the cinema! (1965)

When the Titanic hit an iceberg in a TV movie, an icy meteorite crashed into the home of an English family - a rare occurrence in itself.

In 1944, the Daily Telegraph published a crossword puzzle containing all the code names for the secret operation to land Allied troops in Normandy. Intelligence rushed to investigate the “information leak.” But the creator of the crossword puzzle turned out to be an old school teacher, puzzled by such an incredible coincidence no less than the military personnel.

The primary source for all three stories is the popular collection “Phenomena of the Book of Miracles” by J. Michell and R. Rickard, published in Great Britain in 1977. Its authors are professional, very famous collectors of mysterious and enigmatic stories. John Michell became famous for his books about Atlantis, megaliths, astroarchaeology and sacred geometry. It's funny that Michell and Rickard's book, which describes weeping icons, glowing people, ghosts and frogs falling from the sky, was published in the Soviet Union in 1988 by a political literature publishing house. True, it was accompanied by scientific comments in the spirit of Soviet materialism, which in itself looks quite funny. But that's not the point.

We have no reason not to trust Messrs. Michell and Rickard, but it is worth noting that they themselves do not claim one hundred percent accuracy of all the stories contained in their books. They are more likely collectors than researchers, and therefore do not always indicate the source of this or that “fact.” As, for example, in the story about an icy meteorite that fell on the house of a pious English family while watching a film about the Titanic.

As for the hot air balloon falling on the movie theater, in Michell and Rickard's original version, the balloon tried to land near a village and hit some wires, causing the lights in the movie theater to go out. Here the authors indicate the source - the weekly Weekly News dated April 12, 1975. I don’t know if you trust weeklies... Personally, as a professional journalist, I don’t.

But the story about the unlucky schoolteacher is apparently true. With only one significant clarification: the code words did not appear simultaneously in one crossword puzzle, but appeared one at a time in a whole series of crossword puzzles over several months. The biography of a wonderful teacher named Leonard Dawe, who was a regular crossword writer for The Daily Telegraph, can be easily found on the Internet. Amateur football player, participant in the First World War and part-time crossword puzzle maker Leonard Dow devoted no less than thirty-eight years to this business.

Facts No. 6. Twin brothers

Two foster families who adopted twins, unaware of each other's plans, named the boys James. The brothers grew up unaware of each other's existence, both received law degrees, married women named Linda, and both had sons. They learned about each other only at the age of forty.
This story, which happened in reality, became public thanks to psychology professor Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.. Bouchard's fascination with twins is no coincidence; he is the director of the Twin Adoption Center at the University of Minnesota. A favorite case study that made him famous involved twins named Jim Springer and Jim Lewis.

The brothers first met at the age of thirty-nine. It turned out that their fates surprisingly coincided. Both married girls named Linda, divorced, remarried women named Betty, both named their sons James Alan and their dogs Toy. Professor Bouchard, thanks to the Jim twins, received a grant to study the influence of genes on the medical and psychological indicators of people. In fact, experts have long known the fact that some twins often have “similar” destinies, and that they are able to “feel” each other, even being on opposite sides of the Earth.

Fact No. 7. Namesakes

In 1920, three Englishmen traveled on a train in the same compartment. During the acquaintance process, it was discovered that the last name of one of them was Binkham, the second was Powell, and the third was Binkham-Powell. Neither of them was related to the other.

The story about the namesakes was published in 1989 in the book “Mysteries of the Unknown,” published by Reader's Digest. By the way, this book has no authors, only the editor is indicated. And in it the story about the English namesakes does not take place in the 1920s. m year, and already in 1950, and in Peru. Should you trust the editors of the Reader's Digest publishing house? You decide.

Fact No. 8. A miracle from childhood

In 1920, American writer Ann Parrish came across her favorite children's book in a used bookstore. When she opened the book at home, she found on the title page the inscription: “Ann Parrish, 209 N, Webber Street, Colorado Springs.” It was her own children's book.

The source of this legend is trustworthy. This interesting fact was first mentioned by Ann Parrish’s contemporary, American writer, critic and journalist Alexander Woolcott in his book “While Rome Burns”. It was published in 1934, and in 1954 it was named by critics as one of the best books of the twentieth century.

Fact No. 9. Pregnant cashiers

In one of the supermarkets in the English county of Cheshire, as soon as the cashier sits at the checkout number fifteen, within a few weeks she becomes pregnant. The result is twenty-four pregnant women and thirty children born.

After a long search, we managed to find out the source of this piquant story - this is the newspaper “Evening Moscow” dated July 7, 1992. It seems that this note, reminiscent of a joke about Mr. Gorski, was published in the newspaper on the principle “in the end, readers need to be given something funny and spicy." And if we consider that from the actual data we only have the name of a county in distant Great Britain, then it becomes clear that it is not difficult to invent something similar.

Fact No. 10. Unsinkable Hugh

On December 5, 1664, a passenger ship sank off the coast of Wales. All crew members and passengers were killed except one. The lucky guy's name was Hugh Williams. More than a century later, on December 5, 1785, another ship was wrecked at the same place. And again the only person saved was his name... Hugh Williams. In 1860, again on the fifth of December, a fishing schooner sank here. Only one fisherman survived. And his name was Hugh Williams!

Many articles have been written about unsinkable lucky men named Hugh Williams. This story is quite famous. Hugh Williams was first mentioned in the book “The Book of North Wales” by Charles Frederick Cliffe in 1851, dedicated to the landscapes, monuments, rivers and other attractions of Wales. It gives the story of Hugh Williams as a footnote.

In fact, documentary evidence is available only in the case of flooding in 1785. And in general, the whole story as a whole seems incredible only at first glance. I think if you say that in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries a man named Ivan Ivanovich drowned in the Moscow River, you will not be mistaken. The story about Hugh Williams is from the same series, because this name was very common in those places. And there must have been a lot of shipwrecks on the coast of Wales over the course of three centuries.

So trust, but verify!

Naked Science magazine February 2013

By the way, this nuance was played out in the recent blockbuster "Watchmen" - I watched the director's cut with subtitles the other day, a great thing! A small quote from "Battle for the Moon":

On July 21, 1969, at 2 hours 57 minutes GMT, 109 hours 24 minutes after liftoff from the earth's surface, Neil Armstrong said: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Interestingly, this first phrase of the man on the moon has been the subject of heated debate for a long time. In the original it sounds like this: “That"s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind", but it would be more correct to write and say: “That"s one small step for a man”, but the article “a” is on the recording , transmitted from Apollo 11 is not audible. What does it change? Just the meaning of the message. Due to the vagaries of English grammar, it actually turned out that Armstrong said “One small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind,” since in the spoken phrase the words “for man” instead of “for a man” mean “for the human race” rather than for "man" (in the sense of "for me, Armstrong").
The Americans started talking about this mistake by the first man on the Moon immediately after the flight. Over time, it turned into one of the so-called “urban legends”, the meaning of which boils down to the following: “Did you know that poor Neil was so worried that he unintentionally made a grammatical error?”
Armstrong himself always insisted that he said everything correctly, and the unfortunate article “a” was probably drowned out by statistical interference during radio transmission.
Australian programmer Peter Shann Ford became interested in this old story. He took a recording of Armstrong’s phrase, processed it using a special program and found a clear trace of the spoken “a” - thus, the astronaut was proven right, which greatly pleased the latter.
However, there are people who are sure that the first phrase that Neil Armstrong said when he set foot on the moon was not a small speech about the “first step,” but a mysterious wish: “Good luck to you, Mr. Kampinski!” (English: “Good luck, Mr. Kumpinski!”). Supporters of this “urban legend” claim that as a child, young Neil accidentally overheard a quarrel between his neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Kampinski. And allegedly Mrs. Kampinski, in the heat of the moment, screamed at her husband: “I hate you, you freak! I’ll only take it in your mouth if the neighbor’s boy walks on the moon!”
The legend looks more than doubtful because, firstly, it is too literary; secondly, it is known that Armstrong, even compared to other NASA astronauts, was always more balanced and taciturn, and therefore carefully monitored what and how he said; thirdly, those who like to retell this legend cannot agree on what the name of Armstrong’s neighbor was - Kampinski, Gorski, Gurski, Brown or even Marriott?..

Sincerely,
Anton Pervushin

The first decade of the new century gave birth to what was figuratively called the "Asian Space Race", in memory of the glory days of the 1960s. At that time, progress in space exploration was so rapid that it seemed that in just a little while there would be permanent bases on the Moon, and people would be walking around Mars, marking out areas for apple orchards. The reality turned out to be completely different. Both space powers retreated and limited themselves to the exploration of near-Earth space. The USSR's retreat from the Moon was more like a stampede. Heavy space equipment was abandoned in rearguard battles. The fully equipped and ready-to-fly space tank of the 3rd modification, Lunokhod-3, was never sent to the Moon.

Almost 40 years have passed since then. During this time, the USSR and later Russia did not send anything to the Moon! Today scientists say: “The moon has become interesting to us again.” I don’t remember a period when the Moon was not interesting to Earth scientists. As it turned out, there are so many new and unexpected things on the Moon that it seems that 40 years ago it was a completely different planet. For example, who would have thought that there is a lot of water on the Moon, just seas of ice water!? Aren't amazing discoveries and unexpected revelations awaiting us on the Moon, even greater than we might have expected?

Following the general trend of “revitalizing interest in the lunar topic,” I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the translation of an article by Clyde Lewis, which was written and published on the 30th anniversary of the first landing on the Moon. The author, Clyde Lewis, is an actor, creator and host of the radio show "Ground Zero" about paranormal and political topics.

Good luck, Mr. Gorski
and other lies about the moon

Clyde Lewis

Thirty years ago, people gathered around their televisions to witness one of the most remarkable feats of the millennium. While Walter Cronkite 1 fought back tears, the nation learned that man had landed on the moon. They knew it because they saw it. They knew it because the government said it happened. They knew it because... just because. That was all the evidence they needed. It's 1999, so where is the evidence?

History buffs will recall that Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon, made a mistake when he made his famous "one small step" speech. He should have said: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for all mankind." These words went down in history, but the words he said after that were cut out. You'll probably never hear or see them in movie bloopers and pranks, but the story goes that he made a few remarks after both of his feet touched the sand of the moon. NASA lore has it that Armstrong said, "Good luck, Mr. Gorski."

Many at NASA thought it was a random remark about Russia. That perhaps one of the astronauts named Gorski was Armstrong's rival, and that this was a low blow to Russia's failed attempt to land on the Moon. However, after checking, it turned out that Gorsky was not in either the Russian or American space programs. Who is this Gorski? Whenever people asked Armstrong about Gorsky, Neil would blush and smile, but never talk about it.

Recently, at a press conference in Florida, a reporter spoke to Armstrong about the mysterious Gorski. He asked the question that many journalists have tried and never gotten an answer: "Who the hell is that Gorski guy you were talking about on the Moon?" For 26 years he avoided the issue because he did not want to embarrass Mr. Gorski. But this time it was a journalist's lucky day, and Armstrong finally responded. Mr. Gorski had died, and Neal felt that answering the question wouldn't hurt anyone.

Armstrong told the story that when he was a child, he played baseball with a friend. Armstrong served and his friend volleyed the ball, which landed in front of a neighbor's bedroom window. Mr. and Mrs. Gorski lived next door. Neil ran to get the ball, and as he bent down to pick it up, he overheard Mrs. Gorski yelling at Mr. Gorski. She screamed at the top of her lungs: “Oral sex! Do you want oral sex? You'll get it when the neighbor's kid walks on the moon!”

Isn't this a wonderful story? She didn't exist - it's just one of those urban legends that everyone loves to tell.

Professor Jan Harold Brunvand once said: "The truth should never get in the way of a good story." No matter how many times this story is told, it always rings true because it is such a great story. It made it into the newspapers and, who knows, one day it may take on the status of a genuine event, even if it is a white lie.

There is also an old saying: “The more cynical the lie, the easier it is to convince others that it is the truth 2.”

July 20, 1969 Man landed on the moon. A remarkable achievement considering it was a direct hit on the first attempt. And the entire space program went virtually without a hitch, and not a single person died on the Moon. We had problems and failures before the lunar launches, but miraculously, not a single death during the Big Show. The miracle was that we flew through the radiation belts. Oh yeah, when the rocket took off, we forgot about James Van Allen. You may have heard about him, he was the guy who discovered the dangerous radiation belts that surround the Earth to altitudes of 40-60 thousand km.

The Van Allen Belt spews enough deadly radiation to kill anyone who ventures into it unprotected. Scientific experiments conducted by Van Allen and the military proved that the belt was so deadly that no human could survive in it. The capsule must be lined with 4 feet of lead to protect the astronauts. It was protected by aluminum.

We forgot about it. Because it was shown on TV. We were children. We dreamed and believed in dreams.

The television broadcast blurry images from the moon, and we were amazed. We were so surprised that we forgot to look at the stars in the sky above the lunar landscape. But don't worry, they weren't there. This seemed strange for a place where there was no atmosphere and nothing to obscure the light of the stars. And one could see myriads of bright lights. None were seen.

And this also means that during the day the sunlight will be dazzling. Not soft. How can diffuse light exist on the Moon? Diffuse lighting is used in television studios and film pavilions. Maybe this explains why the photographs adorning our history textbooks looked so amazing. Wait a minute! TV images were blurry, photos were soft and well-composed in a way that looked captivating through the Viewmaster. The lunar landings were so amazing back then that you can't even think about light manifesting itself in the same way without an atmosphere as it does in the atmosphere. And that these breathtaking photographs can be taken at 120 degrees Celsius, when most films melt at 65 degrees. John Carter of Mars had a ray gun, Buck Rogers had anti-gravity boots, and our astronauts had heat-resistant film.

We saw footprints in the lunar sand. Traces left in dry lunar soil. It reminded me of when I was on the beaches of the Great Salt Lake and how the sand couldn't even keep my footprints intact. Later I realized that in order for a trace to remain, there must be moisture in the soil. That's why, when the water receded, I saw footprints in the sand. At school I learned that there is no water on the moon. Besides, I bet it would be hard to keep things wet in that heat, even if there was some moisture on the Moon.

You can be proud to be an American when man's small steps have left an imprint even deeper than the 1,400-pound lunar lander. It was encouraging to see that the rocket thrust did not dig a crater in what Armstrong described as a surface like loose powder. It was so nice to see a clean lander, without a speck of dust on it, and you were proud of the neat astronauts. I mean that in zero gravity, perhaps some of this fine dust will end up in the area of ​​the lunar module supports, not to mention possible static or magnetization phenomena. When we were children, we believed everything.

I'm not a child anymore.

The very idea of ​​doubting the moon landings is heresy. I can understand if you think I'm crazy. I'm not alone. The number of those who begin to doubt is growing every day. You see, people do not understand that there are no independent witnesses to the events themselves that took place on the Moon.

We take it for granted that the evidence is in fact genuine, honestly shown and responsibly reported. In fact, humanity has no evidence at all that we ever set foot on the Moon, other than the photographs that NASA chose to publish.

As you can tell, there are a lot of things that sound so weird and stupid that it's hard to believe how we could fall for it. The power of television kept the dream alive, and the threat of war and the challenge posed by a young and energetic leader killed in his prime kept us from cynicism for a time. This united us for a moment before we realized that, yes, there was a nasty war going on, and perhaps our former leader had fallen victim to a government coup.

We needed heroes. It took 30 billion dollars to create them. There weren't enough heroes fighting in Vietnam. We needed glamorous boys jumping up and down in the movie theater. Anything to show our superiority.

People have forgotten who was ahead of us in the space race. Evil Russians. Yes, they were evil back then. However, without a doubt, they knew how to organize a space program. In the early stages of the space race, the USSR had an advantage over the United States thanks to the Vostok and Voskhod spacecraft, which were technologically superior to the American spacecraft of the time. The Russians were the first to send animals and humans into space. And then, one fine day, they wake up and hear that we have landed on the moon. And they throw in the towel in the ring. Why did they give up? They could surpass us by landing a ship on the Moon capable of building a space station. It's been 30 years since we landed on the moon. 30 years ago we penetrated 400 thousand km into deep space. In that space program, launches to the Moon were almost flawless. Even during a tragedy like Apollo 13, the astronauts returned and everything ended happily. 30 years have passed since the flights to the Moon.

We are launching shuttles. Shuttles that rise into space only 400 km. We build orbiting space stations, and we lost seven astronauts in the Challenger disaster. Is this progress? Why don't we fly shuttles to the moon? Why don't we build space stations and vacation homes on the moon? Why are we sending robots to the Moon to explore ice formations? And finally, why didn't we, succumbing to nostalgia, send a couple of astronauts to the moon to freshen up the experience?

Everything is very simple. We've never been there.

You could argue that the secret must be known to the approximately 35,000 NASA employees and the approximately 200,000 contractors who worked on the Apollo project. Then are you ready to say that in your office, no matter where you work, every department knows what other departments are doing?

And here the art of fragmentation is used to its fullest. This happened with the Manhattan Project and a number of other projects. Secrets can be kept. Money and the threat of death are the main levers of secrecy. Patriotism is also a factor. The very fact of suggesting that we didn't go to the moon paints me as an extremely weird weirdo in some circles. Now imagine what will happen if someone opens their mouth.

People also claim that the technology was not available to fake such a mission. Simulating one-sixth of Earth's gravity would be easy using movie magic. Hydraulics, wire and filming some underwater scenes in an aquarium. Nobody knows for sure. Technologies are said to be developed 20 years before they are released to market, suggesting that in 1969 both battlefield simulation programs and planetary landscape creation programs could have been used using something as simple as a blue rear screen .

We saw the raw version in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. It has even been suggested that Kubrick was chosen to direct (a la The Tail Wags the Dog) the moon landings. And he will never get the recognition he deserves for his directing. C.Powers wrote:

It is said that in early 1968, Kubrick was secretly interviewed by NASA employees who made him a lucrative offer to “direct” the first three moon landings.

At first, Kubrick refused, since 2001: A Space Odyssey was on the editing table at the time, but NASA threatened to make public the greater involvement of Stanley's younger brother, Raoul, in the activities of the American Communist Party. This would be an unbearable shame for Mr. Kubrick, especially after the release of Dr. Strangelove. Kubrick finally relented, and for sixteen months he and a special effects team led by Douglas Trumbull worked on a custom-built soundstage in Huntsville, Alabama, “creating” the first and second moon landings. These efforts resulted in hundreds of hours of 35mm film and video "footage" from the Apollo 11 and 12 lunar missions.

The Apollo 11 mock mission was masterfully staged in July 1969. The Saturn V rocket carrying astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins was launched into low Earth orbit, remaining there while NASA discreetly released studio footage of Kubrick to the press. After a spectacular "moon landing" and "return to Earth," the astronauts returned to Earth's atmosphere and made a perfect splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, right on schedule. A few months later, the Apollo 12 mission was successfully faked in a similar manner.

However, Mr. Kubrick turned down directing the Apollo 13 mission because NASA rejected his script in which the Apollo 13 mission failed. Kubrick insisted that the dramatic failed mission, from which the astronauts returned safely to Earth, would ultimately prove to be NASA's "finest hour."

NASA was of the opinion that a failed mission would unduly jeopardize the agency's image, so Kubrick withdrew from the project. Ironically, NASA later decided to use the script of the failed mission, which recruited a little-known but highly respected British director, Randall Cunningham, to direct.

Kubrick's relentless perfectionism is evident throughout the filming of Apollo, from the chilling "Exception 1201" during the final seconds of the Eagle's descent onto the lunar surface, to the lunar dust coating the astronauts' spacesuits.

This all seems a little hypothetical... or does it? Powers also states:

• The lunar filming site was built on the Mercury base, which was codenamed Copernicus.
• The filming location was located in an underground cave.
• There were supplies for lighting, movie camera rails and special effects equipment.
• All scenes of landing on the lunar surface were filmed on the set.
• The "missions" were controlled by a set of IBM 370 computers.
• There were radio channels with the main tracking stations in Australia, Spain, California and satellite transmission of a copy of the voice channel.

Some claim that there are rare NASA photos flashing at times where you see the astronauts posing in front of a blue screen, and didn't James Bond jump in front of the astronauts on the soundstage in Diamonds Are Forever? Before you shout out the obvious - the movie "Capricorn 1" with OJ Simpson, has anyone noticed Dan Aykroyd's character in the movie "Sneakers"? He plays an oddball mechanic who rattles off fact after fact, including a so-called fact about some piece of equipment they use: "This LTX71 low-noise microphone was used in the same system that NASA used when they faked the Apollo moon landings." Aren't hints of a moon conspiracy scattered all over Hollywood?

You see, people make up stories hinting that perhaps all is not well in the Sea of ​​Tranquility.

If you're feeling confused, you're not alone. The point is that there are two obvious scenarios. First: we have never gone to the moon, and we have been deceived for 30 years. Or the photographs and film were for propaganda purposes, and the film footage was shot in a studio. Three astronauts were involved in the moon landing, and I find it strange that we were able to film the landing itself without a large film crew and a technical director, so it all looked great on the TV screen.

How difficult is it to understand the feasibility of a three-day orbital flight and splashdown with dummy astronauts playing in a makeshift sandbox in a movie theater? Simple, isn't it? It's unpleasant, but one can easily imagine it.

Is it hard to imagine monetary rewards and veiled threats to keep those who know what really happened during the moon landing to keep their mouths shut? Is it any wonder that Neil Armstrong is keeping quiet about the first moon landing? And that he rarely talks to the press? It is equally disconcerting that while we celebrate John Glenn for his nostalgic shuttle flight in memory of his orbital flight on Friendship 7, we remember the moon landing in passing.

This whole event happened 30 years ago, and to this day the moon landing seems artificial and carefully guarded. The moon landing itself seems so indifferent and devoid of emotion. The dialogue was like a carefully written script, read without emotion. What emotions would you feel if you knew you were setting foot on extraterrestrial soil? Here, it seemed, there were no tears or fear. Just a run-of-the-mill giant leap for all of humanity.

The moon landings were my childhood memories. Was it just a paper Moon hanging on a cardboard stage? If there was ever a good time to forge such a venture, 1969 was the time. We lived in the misery of the Cold War. To quell concerns about Russian superiority in space, we could easily devise a plan to use lunar propaganda to entice the Soviets into wasting valuable resources in the "space race" while we spent comparatively little money on fabricating our achievements in the space race. competition. Remember? They were far ahead of us and gave up as soon as the Eagle landed.

We have sold our soul to the Lunar Conspiracy - those involved can hardly retreat. Just think of the scandal that would result if the public discovered the misuse of taxpayers' money! We are doomed to continue to lie. Money bought silence. Fear keeps astronauts in line. You may ask yourself, "Fear of what?" According to Bill Kaysing, who previously appeared on the Ground Zero program, it's fear for your life.

Kaysing claims that some astronauts were ready to sound the alarm about the poor state of the space program. He claimed that Tom Baron complained to Congress about the unsafety of the Apollo program after his careful study of the aerospace program. He was killed 4 days after testifying. And, of course, Gus Grissom died on the launch pad in 1967 when fire burned out his capsule after he publicly objected to Apollo's safety issues. This incident was used to demonstrate what awaited anyone who dared to open their mouth about the Lunar Conspiracy.

If the moon landing was a hoax, then that's only part of the lie. It has already been said that this was our finest hour, the crowning achievement of NASA. But we never returned.

Many uneducated people believe that the space shuttle is a wonderful invention. Remarkable only because we admire its mediocrity.

We've been to the moon! At least that's what NASA tells you. We delivered a large payload to the Moon, a distance of 400 thousand km, and not a single astronaut died. However, our Space Shuttles fly only 400 km above the Earth. Seven astronauts died trying to achieve only a fraction of what the Apollo astronauts achieved effortlessly.

Thirty years after the moon landing, I can't even get Windows 98 to run smoothly, and we can easily send a man to the moon and bring him back again. I can't even talk to Juneau, Alaska from Portland, Oregon without a 2-second delay, but in 1969 astronauts could respond very quickly from 400,000 km away with no problem. Not to mention the clarity of the astronauts' voices in 1969. Thirty years later, you hit a blind spot and your cell phone dies during rush hour.

Can you still believe in the moon landings when they say that the computers used in the missions were no more complicated than the computer in a microwave toaster oven? I know a lot of people laugh at someone saying we didn't land on the moon. People will always say, "Look how far we've come."

After landing on the Moon, the sea was knee-deep. At least that's what we thought. Now we are limited to orbiting space stations and shuttles that regularly take off and circle in an orbit of 400 km.

We decided to go to the moon, we decided to go to the moon 30 years ago. We decided this because the dream was alive. The dream was of a civilization that would resolve differences on the Moon. But the hidden thought was about superiority. If we took possession of the Moon, we could impose our will on governments and populations. It's still a dream.

When the moon landing happened in 1969, a 5-year-old child watched it and dreamed of one day living on the moon.

He dreamed that he would pack his things and buy a ticket for this trip that would lift him above the Earth.

How was I to know that even the tickets of the first astronauts were fake?

I'd like to believe we landed on the moon. So I still think about it, smile cautiously and hope no one guesses that I have lost faith.

It's the same cautious smile at Christmas when a child opens a gift from Santa Claus. After all, the truth should never get in the way of a good story.

The moon landing will always be a good story, eh, Mr. Gorski?

1 Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (1916 - 2009) - legendary American television journalist and CBS anchor. He reported news to the Americans about the Apollo flights.
2 The author’s inaccurate retelling of Dr. Goebbels’ statement, the most common translation of which into Russian is: “The more cynical the lie, the sooner they will believe it.”

GOOD LUCK TO YOU, MR. GORSKI!

Heroes of space epics,
Determined guys
Trapped in a thin shell,
They look into the porthole -
      And of course there is no change of spacesuits,
      Worn out from long wear;
      The neighbor's boy runs on the moon:

Heroes of space disasters,
Rescuers of the star hosts,
They will write ten lines to Earth,
(Routine, almost like a train).
      And they are not expected there: the wife doesn’t give a damn -
      The traitor asks for the rod:
      Good luck, Mr. Gorski.
            Good luck, Mr. Gorski.

Heroes of space troubles
They sit on the moon rock.
And whoever stumbles is a fool himself,
Here you need to control your legs.
      Then we’ll fight - there’s no reason
      To be sober, stupid and flat:
      The neighbor's boy runs on the moon -
      Good luck, Mr. Gorski.
            Good luck, Mr. Gorski.

Heroes of space chaos
Will return to Earth with honor,
We are the fiery sons of the Motherland,
Come on now and honor us.
      I don’t know about everyone else, but I
      On various honorary boards -
      Under the inscription “He visited the Moon” -
      “Good luck to you, Mr. Gorski.”
            Good luck, Mr. Gorski.

DESPERADO

Fight - fight like that, easily and furiously,
Death laughs with its grin,
We may not be Clints or even Eastwoods,
What's whistling at your temple?

There were no rights - we will earn the right,
The right to eternal rest.
God made them different, Colt made them equal -
I could only cope with it with my hand.

      Desperado, be silent, verbosity is certain death.
      Your calibrated steel friend speaks for you.
      Mexican, decide, this is a choice of “either” and “or”
      And, of course, get involved, get involved in the game as soon as possible.

Best place for large caliber
Pushek - guitar case.
To be, scoundrels, a cannon liver for you -
Nothing more, sorry, nothing.

Alone, or maybe in pairs...
In threes - a stamp on their forehead:
Only the bartenders should be spared,
If they remain silent.

      Desperado, play with the hot triggers of revolvers,
      Desperado, come on, you still have a lot of clips,
      Mexican, look, don’t betray your new faith,
      And, of course, engage in a battle at the right time.

If the enemies turn into red blots,
If silence comes,
Remember that there is no more beautiful Caroline,
There is only one like this in the world.

A starless dome on a silver night above
Let's lay the canopy spread out...
That's it, unfortunately, the shooting is over,
You are not a hero, but an actor.

      Desperado, get up, Eos rises above the mountains,
      Look at her, kiss her goodbye - and off you go.
      Mexican, forget that in life you are just Banderas,
      And don’t forget about the gun in the guitar case...
            And about the bartender with a nasty grin, look, don’t forget,
            About the knife thrower too, look, don’t forget,
            And about the police chief too, look, don’t forget.