What If The Russians Got To The Moon First?
We just celebrated the 35th Anniversary of Neil Armstrongs historic walk on the Moon with much hoopla and fanfare. I remember when it happened. It was July 20, 1969 and I was working as a reporter for the Kalamazoo Gazette. We had a television on in the newsroom. Within minutes after the televised and historic walk, we were sent by the editor to the street to get a general public reaction. Instead of watching events unfold, I was standing in the hot sun on a Kalamazoo street corner, getting stupid senseless comments from unwitting passersby. Since then, there has been much speculation about the reality of what we were being told and shown that day. A great conspiracy theory has grown among people who think the whole Apollo Moon project was a fake, and that we never got there at all. It was just a publicity stunt because we were in a race against the Russians and were bent on letting everybody think that we got there first. It has occurred to me that if the Russians were also in the rac
