In one age, called the Second Age by some,
   (an Age yet to come, an Age long past)
      someone claiming to be Tommy wrote
         in message <1229524.xPhzDrgKED@FreeBSD>: 

Mike Rosenberg wrote:

"N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\)" <N: dlzc1 D:cox T:net@nospam.com> wrote:

Hell, this crap was funny once.  Too bad we have to have it regurgitated
over and over again.

I haven't followed Tommy's history on the topic, only coming across it
on those occasions when someone for some unknown reason crossposts to
alt.parenting.solutions, but leaving science and Tommy's lack of
knowledge aside, has anyone ever asked him to explain why the Soviet
Union, at the height of the Cold War, was complicit in his imagined
fraud?

That just proves my point......The Soviets had just launched Sputnik, Not
only was America, in an arms race, we were also in a space race. During
that time, the Russians were kicking American ass when it came to space. 

All of the sudden we go to the moon. 

"All of the sudden?"

Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. The first American
satellite, Explorer I, was launched on Jan. 31, 1958. Mercury put a
man in space three years later (the count of known American satellites
by that point including Vanguard ('58) Pioneer 4 ('59 -- first craft
to break free of Earth's gravity) and Pioneer 5 and the first OSCAR,
designed and launched by a non-governmental American association of
ham radio operators. Get that? *Amateurs* put a satellite up.

Successful American manned space flights prior to Apollo included 10
Gemini flights between 1965 and 1966. The Apollo project's first
launch was December, 1968, more than a decade after Sputnik, and a
less than nine years after the mandate was given by Kennedy.


Really, lying little tommie: educate yourself at least a *little* on
these subjects before continuing to make yourself look foolish.

You would think that if we really went to the moon 'BACK THEN' people would
have any problem going today with all of the technology. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2000506.stm
By Dr David Whitehouse 
BBC News Online science editor  
           
China will not be launching a manned mission to the Moon in the foreseeable
future, according to Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of China's Moon
exploration programme. 

In an exclusive interview with BBC News Online he said he wanted to clarify
news reports in the Chinese media that Beijing would be putting a man on
the Moon by 2010 with the establishment of a Moonbase soon afterwards. 

"We will explore the Moon certainly," he said from his office in Beijing,
"but with unmanned spacecraft." 

"One of our goals is to bring lunar samples back to China for analysis. We
are interested in the minerals on the Moon. We will prepare an unmanned
spacecraft to do this."

This article says "will not," not "cannot," child...