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Originally Posted by kryton
I don"t know if this has ever been brought up before but I was wondering about the timeline for Apollo and the Presidential pardon for Nixon. They seem to coincide. If you listen to the audio of the pardon, the pardon is for July 20, 1969 through Aug. 9, 1974. Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969! The last Apollo mission planned, Apollo 20, would have been around December of 1973. Apollo moon landings were proposed in 1967 and to end 1973-4?
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Are you sure the first date is correct? Could it be January 20, 1969? That is the day Nixon was inaugurated and that would make sense that the pardon would cover everything from day 1. See Jay's Clavius page for more here.
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