50 years since man landed on the Moon

Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Watched one of the BBC moon landing programs on yesterday which touched on the story of Ed Dwight (first black astronaut). Apparently someone thought the program needed a black guy, but then this was the 60's, and black guys didn't get selected on merit in those days.

An able aviator, Dwight was selected, and sent to Test Pilot school at Edwards AFB. Apparently, during his time there, director of training, Chuck Yeager (yes, that Chuck Yeager) told all the white guys on the course not to talk to him, or otherwise fraternise with him.

I never had Chuck down as a massive racist, but then I suppose this was the norm.

Needles to say, Ed didn't make it through the later stages of astronaut training and was chopped from the program as a result of 'racial politics' to use his own words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Dwight
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That bloody Trump fella....
 
malg said:
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Exactly how I feel.
 
wattle said:
Or maybe they just don't believe everything the government and press want them to believe??? Just playing devils advocate
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Neither do the rest of us. But you really have to stretch the boundaries of possibility to believe this conspiracy could be kept up worldwide until now.
 
If people want to challenge government positions they’d be better off protesting about the forthcoming trade agreement with the US that will let hormone fed beef and chlorinated chicken be dumped in the UK or that glyphosate is safe than coming out with long debunked crap about the moon landing.
 
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