Quote Originally Posted by Alpha View Post
So you believe it because you watched it on TV? And you believe the media was honest, who also watched it on TV.

Back when I believed the moon landings were real, I wasn't lying either, it was just my belief on what I had seen, been told or taught.
I had been following closely as the space program gradually progressed during the 1960s, searching the newspapers every day for information. I became especially interested during the Gemini missions, and being a child at the time I was very excited about it. However, I felt they wouldn't be able to do it after the tragic fire in early 1967 that killed the three Apollo astronauts. A Russian cosmonaut died in a crash that same year.

But I was amazed in December 1968 when Lovell and his crew went around the moon and back, then I knew it would be possible by the end of 1969 as JFK had promised.