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Lunar Landing Historical Site?

Posted by michael on from the give-a-hoot,-don't-pollute dept.

kylv writes: "Check out this article on abcnews.com telling how a New Mexico group is trying to make the site of the first lunar landing into a National Historical Site."

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  1. I don't get it... by Enoch+Root · · Score: 4

    Why do they want to make a covert NASA film studio into a historical site?

  2. More National Historic Sites by SEWilco · · Score: 4
    I'd like to nominate the following for U.S. National Historic Site designation:
    • Yucatan Meteor
    • North American Glaciers, Recent Ice Ages
    • Sun
    • West Berlin, Germany
    • North Pole of Earth
    • Mount Pinatubo, Phillipines
  3. Of course new mexico... by the_tsi · · Score: 5

    Of course people from New Mexico would want it declared a national historical site. After all, when they faked the landing, all the filming was done on NM's turf.

    -Chris

  4. A Disgraceful Idea by PingXao · · Score: 4

    "We came in peace for all Mankind."

    - Neil Armstrong at Tranquility Base, 1969

  5. Golf Ball by SEWilco · · Score: 4
    The artifacts scattered across the lunar surface by U.S. astronauts include a golf ball knocked over the horizon ..."

    Well, I don't think it was "over the horizon" when it was visible in a picture from the Lunar Module [picture in direction of Turtle Rock]. Shepard estimated "the first ball went about 200 yards (183 meters) and the second 400 yards (366 meters)".