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Buzz Aldrin Publishes Moon Expenses Form
An anonymous reader writes: Proving once again that the government has a form for everything, Buzz Aldrin has unveiled his Apollo 11 documentation on social media over the past few days, including a travel voucher detailing his expenses on his trip to the moon. The papers listed him as having been on a "work trip" from his home in Houston, Texas that had taken him to the moon and then back again with a total expenses claim of just $33.31. The report notes : "Government meals and quarters [were] furnished for all of the above dates."
the hookers!
It's nothing more than another prop from that NASA sound stage where they faked the moon landing.
Now please excuse me while I go make my new tinfoil hat.
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Comes to $216.59 in 2015 dollars.
Shouldn't he still get to claim per diem?
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You gotta give them some incentive. It was a really risky trip.
"Houston, the lunar take-off rockets failed to fire, and the fuel is leaking fast. Uh, we'd like about an hour of privacy, please...".
Table-ized A.I.
"the government has a form for everything"
As if there wouldn't otherwise be people screaming about how Buzz Aldrin did not account for how he spent out tax money and is therefore a theif.
As if private corporations do not require expense reports. (My favorite case of this was returning from business trips to South East Asia. I would land in Hong Kong about 10am, have some lunch, leave on a 2pm flight, land at LAX at 10 am, have some lunch, leave on a 2pm flight. My expense report would make people freak out because I listed 2 lunches for the same calendar day. It took a couple of tries before someone told me to enter one as breakfast.)
To be fair, that's $33.31 in 1969 dollars...
You all cows. Cows say moon. MOOOOOOON! MOOOOOOOON! Moon cows MOOOOOOOON! Moon say the cows. YOU SPACECOWS!!
* Chewing gum
* Accordion
* Shoe-horn
* Pizza cutter
* 75 watt light bulb
* Dried armadillo
* Bicycle peddle
* Original painting of a bulldozer
* Rodent repellant
* 7 bottle caps
* Pillow feathers
* Rubber mallet
* Dog bone
* Green paint, exterior
* Detour sign
* Broken canoe paddle
* Decorative beads
* Baby pacifier
* Petunia seeds
* Empty ice tray
* Batman mask
* 3 human teeth
* Toothpick sculpture of a 3-legged donkey
* Drained snow-globe
As a hard-working tax-payer, I demand answers.
Table-ized A.I.
oh grow up. man has never been above low earth orbit. no man has been on the moon.
or keep living your dream, useless eater
Here in France, the home of the French Fries, of the modern democracies and of Human Rights, we have the form "CERFA 12722*1" : "Authorization to export or import goods that could be used for torture purposes".
https://www.formulaires.modern...
I don't know if I must fill this form to import a wrench and some duct tape.
He should have asked for a mileage allowance.
I guess they still had to figure out whether that dust was relevant to "agriculture", "immigration" or "public health" ("any other condition on board that may lead to the spread of disease: TBD"). Not commerce as he basically stole it.
The government didn't charge him for the view.
David Attenborough tells a wonderful story about his early days at the BBC. He had bought two pack horses on location for 30 shillings because he could not find a guide who had enough of their own horses to service the crew. When he was done with the horses he gave them away (to the guide I assume). Back in London he got a call from the BBC accounting office querying the two horses on his expense claim. The accountant was demanding to know where the horses were located because they were now "BBC property" and would appear as such in an audit. Attenborough responded with "Madam, we ate them", which as it turned out were the magic accounting words that turn an asset into a consumable.
The moral of the story is; if you are ever on safari and need to claim some pack mules, either bring them back with you or describe them as "breakfast" on the expense claim..
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
We supposedly made it to the moon in the 1960's. The last time we went was in 1972.
Why haven't we (or anyone else) gone back in over 40 years?
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
Not sure what the rate was back in 1969, but it would have added up.
I used to work on the system which keep track of Navy flight records. We had to modify it to handle Navy personnel flying on the Space Shuttles. The system only allowed for 99.9 hour flight legs. Since shuttle flights were longer than 100 hours, we had to modify the system to handle them differently if the aircraft was one of the space shuttles. Talk about getting in your flight hours.
https://aoprals.state.gov/web9...
No per diem rates for the moon.
Well, that settles it. If the State Department doesn't have per diem for it, it must mean no travel took place.
How can you fill out TDY forms if you don't have a per diem rate that you can cash in on, amirite, Govvies on Slashdot?
Some people don't believe in fairies. I don't believe in The Patriarchy.
He Photoshop'd a few lines in his itinerary indicating a stop over at a secret movie studio at a desert base in Nevada.
He kind of reminds me of Woz and Jobs, where Jobs was intense and Woz was cool. In this case its Neil who was intense and Buzz who is cool.
3.31 for a steak sandwich and coffee on the way in?
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
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