A couple of weeks back, I decided to try to generate some interest and discussion about Apollo by making this and putting it up on the front of the counter in my shop.
I explain to people about the LRO and KAGUYA and how they have photographed the moon from close up. Some interesting comments have been made, the most common of which has been words to the effect that..."so they really did send men to the moon!?" . Apart from one marginal HB (and he was just a bit creepy TBH) who just thought was all faked, the majority of the comments have been positive.
update
Last week, the LRO Apollo 17 Taurus-Littrow poster above lured in my first genuine Apollo fan. His name is Tony, an Englishman, about my age, who saw Neil Armstrong's first steps 11 live (we didn't in NZ). He came in with his two sons about 12 and 14, and we had quite a discussion about Apollo and the space programme in general. His enthusiasm has obviously rubbed off on his boys as it was apparent that they knew a lot about Apollo and were able to participate fully in the discussion. Looking at and listening to those two boys, I realised that are around the same age that Tony and I were when it was all happening at Tranquillity Base, and it made me wonder what the world will be like when they get to my age. Hopefully, Tony has set his boys on the path of understanding that Apollo was real.
I wouldn't normally bother to post all this, except that yesterday, Tony came back and brought in a book for me to look at. Its called "Full Moon" by photographer and artist Michael Light. I found it quite stunning. It has all the usual Apollo photographs such as the moonscapes and Earth from the moon and close up of the LM and the LRV etc, but it was these photos the really caught my eye...
For mine, it is photos like these that truly speak to the reality of what these men did, and more so than all the other the amazing photographs of where they went. This makes it all the more sad that there are people out there who, for their own selfish motives and deluded self-aggrandisement, deny the reality of the achievements of these great men.