![]() ![]() The teens have their various reasons for entering the lottery, but they generally fall under the heading of escapism, rather than, oh, actually wanting to go to the moon. In the novel, a lottery is held to send a trio of teenagers to the moon as a way of rekindling interest in the NASA programme and therefore securing further funding (which will in turn result in some moustache-twirling evilness, were told by evil Dr Blank at the beginning of the book). But, of course, none of which can be benign. Its this sort of scepticism that 172 Hours on the Moon'exploits, positing that the various space programmes around the world have fallen by the wayside for reasons that we, the public, have never been told. ![]() The Armstrong interview was newsworthy in that he has been famously tight-lipped about his experience on the moon, helping to fuel conspiracy theories about whether weve been told the truth about the circumstances surrounding the moon landingor whether the moon landing ever happened in the first place. ![]() Oddly enough, the day I began reading 172 Hours on the Moon'I also read that Neil Armstrong had agreed to give a rare interview, a coup wrangled by an accountant, of all people. ![]()
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