I finally found a consistent story in this book:
http://www.praxis-publishing.co.uk/v...33&search=home

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Two camps fighting over one reality. The apparent winner is . . . manned moon landings really did happen. Not even the most gifted screen writer could have conceived the parody of errors commited by NASA during the Apollo program. And if it really was a hoax, why on earth [moon?] would the 'producers' keep churning out 'sequels'? Box office returns have long suggested sequels do not tend to generate more profits than the original.

Thanks! I will keep my eye out for that one.

Jon

I'd like to take a moment to turn this question on its head:

What proof is there that man didn't go to the moon?

I think that is the big question for HBers to answer.

We'll be waiting.

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I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid...and I went ahead anyway. - Crow T. Robot

Godspeed, John Glenn. - Scott Carpenter

And these atomic bombs that science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men that used them.
- H.G Wells, The World Set Free

To the conspiracy crowd, radiation is a big Boogey Man that inspires terror and death in all who encounter it. - JayUtah

And then we get into the whole even-numbered versus odd-numbered sequels. From a dramatic point of view, the odd-Apollos were probably better.

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From a dramatic point of view, the odd-Apollos were probably better.

Well 11, 13, 15, and 17 sure, Perhaps 7 since it was the first manned flight, but 8 and 10 definately had it over 9. 12 was a flop (Thank Beanie for burning out the TV) 14 was okay, but didn't have the rover camera so lacks in images. 16 wasn't too bad, though I get the feeling you have to be a geology nut to really appreciate 16.

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It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. --- JayUtah

You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

I thought 17 was big on geology.

What did 16 find? Was that the one that found the Genesis rock?

[HB mode]
Wait! Apollo wouldn't be the last time the term "Genesis something" was used! There was also Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Therefore, Nicolas Meyer is a whistle blower, borrowing the term used on Apollo! That shows it's fake!
[/HB mode]

Oh, I kill me.

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I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid...and I went ahead anyway. - Crow T. Robot

Godspeed, John Glenn. - Scott Carpenter

And these atomic bombs that science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men that used them.
- H.G Wells, The World Set Free

To the conspiracy crowd, radiation is a big Boogey Man that inspires terror and death in all who encounter it. - JayUtah

What did 16 find? Was that the one that found the Genesis rock?

Nope. That would be 15. 16 was the one that went looking for volcanic rock in the Descartes region and found almost nothing but impact breccias. Mind you, one of them was about twenty feet tall....

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They also found the white soil at Plum Crater and brought back the largest lunar samplr, Big Mulley, weighing in at over 12kg. Other than that is was really basic geo stuff, BIG rocks and the Lunar GP.

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It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. --- JayUtah

You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

I still think Charlie Duke's constant banter makes 16 very enjoyable to watch...

Oh I agree, it's just not as dramatic as 15 and 17, 15 being the first with the rover and the amazing senery of the Rille, 17 being the final mission. Still none of them got an Emmey, only one Apollo mission achieved that.

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Howling from the Shadows

It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. --- JayUtah

You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

Got a clip of that? I'm curious about what sort of constent banter he did.

PW,

This might sound daft, but was it Apollo 11 that got the Emmy? Or was it 7?

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I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid...and I went ahead anyway. - Crow T. Robot

Godspeed, John Glenn. - Scott Carpenter

And these atomic bombs that science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men that used them.
- H.G Wells, The World Set Free

To the conspiracy crowd, radiation is a big Boogey Man that inspires terror and death in all who encounter it. - JayUtah

Seems to me that the OP has abandoned us.

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His four posts so far came in a 3 hour and 47 minute window a couple weeks ago. In his last post, he said he'd be back in a sense that it would be a longish while.

So I guess he got some food for thought, and now he's digesting it.

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The sad thing is space travel got boring. No one expected that.

This might sound daft, but was it Apollo 11 that got the Emmy? Or was it 7?

7

eta:

For more information:

Note that Schirra was the only Astronaut to fly in all three programmes, Mercury (8), Gemini (6A) and Apollo (7).

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Howling from the Shadows

It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. --- JayUtah

You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

gee, thats a fair effort, good on him

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It was Apollo 8's Christmas Eve broadcast from lunar orbit that got an Emmy. The only way I knew that was that I just read "Lost Moon" last weekend.

According to this source, the engineer who developed the TV camera used on Apollo 11 got an Emmy.