Bill Whittle

Yeah, we sure enough did, Michael.

And the reason, as we mentioned in the incredible work that you guys did for me and with me on Apollo 11, what we saw is that the moon landing is presented to the public as something that just parachuted in out of space.

Like we just decided we got up, we woke up, built a rocket, and we went and then we came back.

But the thing that they're missing is the context of all of the years prior to the Apollo 11 launch.

We were going to the moon every three months before we landed on the moon.

We went to the moon in December of 1968.

We were flying Apollo missions every three or four months.

And so when you run into people who have a hard time believing it, you really have to kind of start with like the V2 rocket or a bottle rocket and ask them at what point does this not become real?

We had a Mercury flight that went into suborbital flight, then we did an orbital flight with the Mercurys, then we did two people in the Geminis, and then we tested out the Apollo command module in Earth orbit, was that fake?

We went around the Moon, was that fake?

We tested the lunar lander in Earth orbit,

And then we tested it in lunar orbit.

All of this happened before we landed.

And so if you present the moon landing as sort of this one-off thing, it becomes kind of easy to believe that it was a fake deal.

But for those of us that grew up with it, Michael, it was just a regular event that happened every three or four months.

And there was no point ever in the history of the space program where there was this incredible jump that happened.

There was never a point when all of a sudden something magic entered the equation.

So, one in ten Americans, and to be honest with you, it's a lower number than I thought, are mistaken, I'm afraid, although I understand why they're mistaken, and I understand why younger people tend to believe it didn't happen, largely because younger people have grown up with so much technology that they think it didn't happen because we didn't have enough tech.

But as it turns out, on Apollo 11, we had the two most advanced flight computers, I would say, in the universe.

walking that lunar module all the way down.