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Was the Moon Landing Faked and Other Space Race Myths Tested Against the Record Eight stories about the space race, from the faked landing to the waving flag and the million-dollar pen, tested against the record with a verdict on each. Apollo 11 From Liftoff to Splashdown in Dated Steps With the Words Spoken Eight days from Launch Complex 39A to the Pacific in dated, timed entries, with the words spoken and a reason each moment mattered. We Choose to Go to the Moon Read Closely as a Speech About Doing Hard Things Kennedy's 1962 Rice speech read passage by passage as an argument that a free people can choose a hard goal, set a date and pay for it in the open. Space Became a Battlefield in 2007, and the Space Force Is the Answer The Space Force jokes miss the point. China proved in 2007 that it can kill satellites, and the answer was always a service whose only job is the high ground.