Godspeed

Look, it's not that the moon landing was faked.  It happened.  Neil hates the conspiracy theories.  The lie is that we ever wanted to go to the moon.  We needed a spectacle to show the people.  To justify the massive budgets.  The agencies.

Neil stepped on a rock 239,000 miles from Earth.  Big deal.  I stepped on an Exoplanet circling Ursae Majoris 18 months earlier.  It's a one-way trip - so there ain't any going home.  No ticker tape parade for me, but that's ok.  I'm here for my country.

See, the Russians beat us here by a few months.  Japanese showed up a few weeks after us.  We'll colonize this planet for America.  Because there isn't a choice....