Goodness.

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The other night I watched a short documentary on PBS about the Apollo 8 mission to the moon, and man, I just about stopped breathing. Part of the program emphasized just how novel and dangerous a trip like that was in 1968. Apollo 8 was the first time people, actual human people, left earth's orbit to travel elsewhere, an elsewhere 200,000 miles

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Have you heard the Onion Radio News' broadcast of the 'real' moonlanding?

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I looked all over their website for the podcast, but couldn't find it. In my search I did come across a few good moon articles, like one from a couple years back called "Bush Vows To Put Man On Moon Before It Disappears At End Of Month." It's funny how Jessica Simpson and GW Bush jokes are basically interchangeable. Good stuff.