Us boomers have fond memories of Neil Armstrong.
Unfortunately, the Phelps clan doesn't.
Goban Van Rompay
God gave Neil Armstrong 82 years to obey. He ignored God’s law with his proud adultery. It is not going well for him now!
Retweeted by Fred Phelps Jr
I've googled everywhere and I can't find anything linking Armstrong to adultery.
As a kid, I was a space nut, as I'm sure most of us were. I wanted to be an astronaut. I watched every broadcast, read everything I could on the topic. I was fascinated with the X-15, which Armstrong flew. My father was a science teacher. My sister bought me my first telescope. I remember us in the back yard watching Sputnik go over. I was pretty young so it was mostly a lot of telephone calls late at night (my father had some sort of position of minor responsibility with the International Geophysical year), then suddenly everybody's in the back yard pointing up at a dot of light. After that I paid a lot of attention to the sky as I'm sure many others did. Some of my friends were into ham radio and spent hours on headsets listening to spacecraft go over, trying to decode the telemetry. Anybody with a short-wave radio (like me) could also listen in if you could find the right frequency.
Some people think the Apollo landings never happened. I disagree. I was there. I grew up studying technology and it's what I do for a living. The Apollo landings could not have been faked because too many people were watching and it actually would have been easier to go to the moon than fake going to the moon. It all has to do with radio waves. They don't travel in straight lines. They're not like lasers. They radiate. That's what makes the whole argument fall apart. Lots of people watched the launch. Something got put up into orbit. Then the ham radio guys started tracking it and listening in on the conversations. They could only hear one set of voices. If the "conversation" was being uploaded to something like a satellite to re-broadcast, due to leakage, they'd hear two conversations. The incoming version on one frequency, then the re-broadcast on another a moment later. Nobody heard anything.
As the spacecraft left orbit, it was easy enough to track. Amateur astronomers all over the world could see it in their telescopes. There was a whole network of us out there, communicated by mail and telephone. My claim to fame is spotting Explorer II after it was supposed to have re-entered. Somebody would have noticed if the spacecraft was in the wrong position (eg. still in orbit). The radio guys would have noticed if the signal strength was wrong.
After it was all over, something came back from space. It got tracked in. People got out with rocks that weren't there when it lifted off.
Posting this unfinished 'cause I need to get another one up.
Posting this unfinished 'cause I need to get another one up.
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