25pct Brits think 1969 moon landing was hoax

August 29th, 2009 LONDON - A piece of rock from the moon which Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin had gifted to Holland is claimed to be fake. Curators at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum say that the "lunar rock", valued at 308,000 pounds, is in fact just a petrified wood.

August 10th, 2009 LONDON - More than a third of 2,000 Brits were said to be unfit for sex, with Glasgow being named the laziest city because 75 per cent of the people there do not exercise, suggests a poll. According to Pollsters, who questioned the partakers for the Nuffield Health Report, three-quarters revealed they were too exhausted by the end of the day for love-making.

July 20th, 2009 LONDON - Captain Alan Bean, the fourth person to walk on the moon, says that it's time of the U.S. to forget about going back, and to join forces with the international community to focus on a mission to Mars instead.

July 20th, 2009 LONDON - The details of the messages of peace from world leaders left on the Moon in a tiny silicon disk on the lunar surface in 1969 have been released. According to a report in the Telegraph, the silicon disk was left underneath the US flag that astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin planted on the Moon's surface when the Apollo 11 mission reached the Moon on July 20, 1969.

July 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - It's been decades since they set foot on the moon, but the pioneers of the Apollo programme remain committed to exploring space with the goal of sending a human to Mars. Seven astronauts from the Apollo programme talked with journalists Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon.

July 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Even conspiracy theories must sometimes be taken seriously. Every week Roger Launius, chief historian at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, devotes his time to debunking one of history's favourite such theories: That astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin never landed on the moon.

July 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Forty years ago, on July 20, 1969, the United States achieved a historic feat when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," were Neil Armstrong's prophetic words that opened the pathway for new medical procedures and 'holistic reinvention' of vehicles.

July 12th, 2009 MIAMI - Before leaving on their historic moon mission, the crew of Apollo 11 helped their families plan for their deaths, it has emerged. The first men to walk on the Moon were feted as heroes and praised as pioneers when they set off for the moon in 1969, but memorabilia to be sold commemorating the mission's 40th anniversary revealed that the three astronauts secretly feared they might be on a one-way ticket, The Telegraph reports.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON - A Russian spacecraft is said to have landed on the moon hours before NASA's Apollo 11 in 1969. According to a recording that has now been declassified by the Jodrell Bank Observatory, astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell'sradio telescope, which was hidden in the archives until recently, shows the Russian craft orbiting the moon and crash-landing onto its surface at 15:50 on July 21, just a few hours before the Americans lifted In July 1969, the telescopes at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire, were tracking the Americans' Eagle Lander carrying astronauts towards the moon's surface.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON - The NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin has said that humans should create a settlement on Mars to provide much-needed objectives to the younger generation. Aldrin, the second man to set his foot on the Moon, has claimed that setting up habitation on the surface of the red planet is a "wonderful objective" for humanity.

June 20th, 2009 London, June 20 (ANI): Besides courage, determination and little bit of fear - American astronauts took soft porn pictures with them to the Moon! Steamy pages from Playboy magazine were smuggled by pranksters at NASA into ring-bound checklists attached to the wrists of two spacemen on the Apollo 12 second manned landing in November 1969, reports The Sun. But that was not all, shocked Pete Conrad and Al Bean found jokers had added captions to the naked girls, like: "Seen any interesting hills and valleys?" Mission commander Conrad recalled: "I didn't find them until we were on our first Moonwalk." (ANI)

June 5th, 2009 NEW YORK - Buzz Aldrin has revealed that not all memories of the historic landing on the Moon 40 years ago were as romantic as portrayed. The second man to set foot on the moon said the July 20, 1969 landing bore another side of reality that the video archives could not translate.

June 3rd, 2009 LONDON - A new survey has revealed that 70 percent of Brits have embarrassed themselves at work by doing something silly. The study by biscuit brand Mikado found that while some have broken wind in a meeting, others have worn odd shoes all day, reports the Daily Star.

April 30th, 2009 LONDON - The average Briton only has three true friends, concludes a new survey. ost people in the survey claimed to have 16 friends, but 48 per cent admit most of those people are friends 'out of habit'.

April 20th, 2009 LONDON - Almost 40 years since the successful Moon landing, a document has emerged that contains former US President Richard Nixon's speech, which would have been read out to the American public in the case the mission had ended in failure. According to a report in the Telegraph, the typed document, entitled "In the event of Moon disaster", was consigned to an archive until now.