It all started when author Bill Kaysing (1922-2005) published a book which went largely unnoticed on its release in 1974 entitled «We never went to the moon ». Urban myth: the missions were filmed in a studioĪpollo 11 and the other lunar missions were nothing more than a huge State hoax. In April 1970, the United States Supreme Court rejected O’Hair’s complaint. As the legal action was in progress during Apollo 11, NASA asked its astronauts to avoid all strong religious references, an order scrupulously respected by Aldrin.
Consequently, she filed a suit before the Supreme Court. Unfortunately the militant American atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair (1919-1995, pictured here on a photo from 1983) then claimed that NASA had breached the first amendment of the United States constitution guaranteeing freedom of religion (she claimed that the American agency had promoted one religion over the others by reading from Genesis). However, during Apollo 8, astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders performed a reading from Genesis to conclude a televised transmission whilst orbiting the moon on Christmas Eve. Shortly after landing on the moon, Buzz Aldrin announced over the radio that he invited people to reflect on the meaning of the event and then performed a short communion (pouring some wine into a small chalice and swallowing a wafer) in a very discreet manner, never mentioning the religious nature of his own meditation. So he took a photograph of his footprint (sometimes mistakenly believed to be that of the first step) and this photo of Neil Armstrong near the Lunar Module (above). Also, there was only one Hasselblad camera adapted to cope with the lunar environment and it was Neil Armstrong that used it the most of the time! Buzz Aldrin only had his hands on the famous Swedish box for a brief moment.
Jealous not to be the first man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin «made sure» that he never photographed Neil Armstrong on the moon… In fact they all had a jam-packed programme of tasks to accomplish in their 2 hour and 36-minute moon walk. Urban myth: Aldrin refused to photograph Armstrong on the moon The disk was left on the surface of the moon by the astronauts shortly before the end of their moonwalk without any form of ceremony, which merely contributed to the initiative fading from memory. It is necessary to point out that the response time was unusually short (less than one month) for such an official request. However, out of the 116 countries contacted, only 73 responded in time with notable absences such as all of the Eastern Bloc nations (due to the Cold War) and even France. NASA made a silicon disk less then 4cm in diameter featuring engravings of good luck messages written by the heads of state.
However, the other nations were invited to be symbolically present on the moon’s surface. However, the star spangled banner was also a patriotic message to American taxpayers who had financed the Apollo programme through their taxes. During the Cold War period, the United States did indeed intend to remind everyone that they were the first to set foot on our natural satellite. A gesture which is often interpreted as a demonstration of supremacy. The raising of the American flag on the moon.
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