NASA Moons Crowd of Skeptics

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Buzz Aldrin treats moon-landing skeptics to a little chin music, but the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is having a harder time dealing with the growing wave of displaced Capricorn 1 fans who tuned in to Fox's Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On the Moon? AP's Marcia Dunn, explains how NASA budgeted $15,000 for a book debunking moon landing hoax theories, but has since canceled the project. (Be sure to check out MSNBC's video clip when you read the story; it features not only footage of Aldrin's sock on the jaw but Dan Abrams dripping with even more sarcasm than he usually drips with.) Disappointingly, the book cancellation came because of objections from don't-dignify-this-with-an-answer prigs, rather than because the author discovered the landing really was faked. Next they'll be telling us the whole tracking Santa's sleigh bit is a put-on too.