Presidents and the Moon

Kennedy

The inspiration

LBJ - the first liar, about orbit

Nixon - the biggest liar, about all landings

The lying presidents

Ford

Carter

Did not spill the beans, but would not continue the lie. The false Apollo "landings" stopped.

JOHNSON

Apollo 1  - January 27, 1967   Accident fire that killed Grissom, White, Chaffee  

Apollo 2 - Dec 22, 1967 Cancelled

Apollo 3  -Nov 16, 1962 unmanned (out of date order for some reason)

Apollo 4 - unmanned

Apollo 4 - unmanned

Apollo 5 - unmanned

Apollo 6 - unmanned

Apollo 7 - unmanned October 11-22, 1968

Apollo 8 - first leaving Earth orbit to orbit the Moon  Dec 21 - 27, 1968    First fake
Johnson did not greet the astronauts on the carrier

APOLLO 8 ASTRONAUTS

[8.] Q. Mr. President, do you plan to see the three astronauts in person?

THE PRESIDENT. We have no definite plans as yet.

 

NIXON

Apollo 9  March 3, 1969 - March 13 Low Earth orbit

Apollo 10 -  May 18-26,1969  Lunar orbit

Apollo 11 - July 20   Lunar landing Neil Armstrong

Apollo 12 - Lunar landing

Apollo 13 - failed

Apollo 14 - Lunar landing

Apollo 15 - Lunar landing

Apollo 16 - Lunar landing

Apollo 17 - Lunar landing

Apollo Missions

Year Mission Days in Space Days %Total
1968 8 21-27 Dec 7 7.9
1969 10 18-26 May 8 8.9
  11 16-24 July 9 10.1
  12 14-24 Nov 10 11.2
1970 13 11-17 Apr 7 7.9
1971 14 31 Dec -9 Feb 10 11.2
  15 26 Jul - 7 Aug 13 14.6
1972 16 16-27 Apr 12 13.5
  17 07-19 Dec 13 14.6   960 REM

Source: NOAA