1. 40 years in the past this month, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Two main innovations emerged from it: the non-stick frying pan and the moonwalk. The late Michael Jackson initially selected the non-stick frying pan because the centrepiece of his stage act. He was in a position to fry two rashers of bacon, a sausage and a fried egg, and nonetheless handle to do the washing-up in underneath 5 seconds. However this kitchen-based routine proved unpopular along with his audiences, so he switched to the moonwalk and met with far better success.
2. Surprisingly, nobody has but mooned on the moon, although Nasa has drawn up plans for the primary official moon on the moon in 2015. Nonetheless, the Chinese language purpose to have a person eat a Mars on Mars by 2014, so this will trigger Nasa to carry its date ahead.
3. Would it not be potential for a cow to leap over the moon? For the previous 33 years, scientists at Ohio State College have been coaching a herd of cows to leap over the moon underneath strict take a look at circumstances, however with no luck to date. ‘One among our cows jumped two foot, and one other slightly below 1ft 111/2in, however we nonetheless have an extended approach to go earlier than a cow jumps over the moon,’ studies Professor C. N. Pickard, who has lately invested in a specially-constructed cattle-based trampoline.
Should you look rigorously on the high proper hand nook of the Moon touchdown pictures, you may simply make out St Winifred’s Faculty Choir…
4. Many myths have been shattered by the findings of the Apollo moon-landing. For hundreds of years, youngsters the world over believed that the moon was product of cheese. After intensive examination of items of the moon introduced again by the Apollo astronauts, it has been formally confirmed that the moon is NOT product of cheese: it’s product of low-fat semi-pasteurised yoghurt. In response to second astronaut Buzz Aldrin, it has ‘a really slight and much from disagreeable tang of vanilla’.
5. The one girl ever to have set foot on the moon is the late Mollie Sugden, who led the Second British Moon Mission in 1975. Dressed all in pink, with a wide-rimmed feather hat, she stepped onto the moon clasping her pet cat to her bosom. Her first phrases have been: ‘That is one small step for girl, one big leap for my pussy.’
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6. The primary British Moon Expedition-in 1975 got here to an abrupt finish shortly earlier than take-off, when a high-ranking official from the recently-formed MTRA (Moon Transport Regulation Authority) entered the House Mission Centre simply outdoors Esher and declared that the paperwork wasn’t so as. There adopted a three-month delay throughout which the Centre utilized for the suitable licences and certificates, and an extra delay attributable to Well being and Security.
7. The second British Moon Expedition, in 1977, was judged ‘an outright failure’ when the three astronauts, led by Tomorrow’s World presenter Raymond Baxter, mis-read the map and misplaced their method, ultimately ending up south of the A4, simply outdoors Datchet. Unaware that that they had not reached their unique vacation spot, Baxter excitedly reported again to Mission Management that the moon was ‘terribly just like Earth – I may even see a department of Woolworth, a cycle restore store and a hoarding extolling the delights of Rice Krispies. It is actually much more attention-grabbing than we would ever imagined.’
8. Many conspiracy theorists in Britain and the U.S. imagine that the so-called ‘moon touchdown’ was the truth is filmed in a studio. They level out that when you look arduous on the {photograph} of Buzz Aldrin in his spacesuit on the moon, within the high proper nook within the distance you may simply make out the unmistakeable sight of St Winifred’s Faculty Choir singing There’s No One Fairly Like Grandma. Apparently, the choir had been recording in the identical studio at precisely the identical time. Nonetheless, specialists at Nasa dismiss this objection: St Winifred’s Faculty Choir was, they are saying, often employed on area missions, and travelled on the Apollo mission to entertain the three official astronauts, in case they discovered the entire moon expertise too boring.
9. Solely 17 males have ever walked on the moon. The final to take action, Neville T. Bassett, arrange a small department of Starbucks near the Sea of Tranquillity, however discovered that there was no name for it. ‘I would overestimated passing commerce, and provides have been at all times going to be an issue,’ he says. Commerce analysts recommend that this lacklustre enterprise in all probability influenced different companies to remain away. For the time being, there are solely two everlasting retailers on the moon: one a Vacationer Data workplace, the opposite promoting souvenirs.
10. The one man-made construction that may be seen from the moon is believed to be former glamour-model Jordan.
11. Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was the Chief Steward on the fourth British area mission to the moon. ‘When the primary astronaut requested for his night meal, I stated “What is the magic phrase?” twice and when he did not say please for a second time I stated “You may stuff your night meal for all I care” and refused to serve him for the remainder of the mission.’ The Guinness Ebook Of Information studies that Prescott is the one man who proved too heavy to drift in area.
12. The moon has no air and no water. Astronauts report that being on it’s remarkably just like being caught in a second-class First Nice Western carriage from Paddington to Swindon in a Friday rush-hour.
