In reading the proclamation on national television, Ford inadvertently said 'July 20'.

In addition to his embarrassing falls (due to an inner-ear problem, IIRC), Ford also had a tendency to put his foot in his mouth at times.

From an AP article:

I remember seeing a cartoon at the time of three Chinese guys in Mao hats rolling around on the ground laughing as they read a book called Quotations of President Ford.

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So that's what Bush is up too, he's trying to out Ford, Ford. lol

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

The redesigned command module hadn't been tested.

Define 'tested'. Someone has to make the first flight, and Apollo 7 had already flown the block II command module (albeit with block I couches).

Nobody had flown on the Saturn V.

See above. Someone has to be first, and the escape system was well tested and considered reliable.

The control center and network wasn't ready. The fly control team wasn't ready and the crew only had three maybe four months to train versus the normal 1 year.

They had already been training for a flight of some kind. Operating the command module wasn't so problemmatic as you make it sound. And tracking and communication with a spacecraft on the way to the Moonis easier because it doesn't keep drifting in and out of recpetion ranges.

And they had to reenter at 25000 m/hr. The fastest reentry up to that date.

Apollo 4 had already proven the heat shield at translunar re-entry velocity.

If there was an Apollo hoax maybe it started around this time period. 1967-1974.

But why? What would have to be wrong for the program to need to be faked. The hardware had been designed and built over several years, and it would do the job. What could stop the real landing at such a late stage?

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Sure is a good thing he read the proclamation on national TV in a formal setting, rather than reciting it from memory while playing golf.

Even reporters have a hard time getting their facts straight while ducking and covering.

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