I love the Customs forms signed by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their return trip from the moonshine , but are they real ? Yes , but not really .
The form is a existent word form , but it was n’t satiate out by the Apollo 11 astronauts when they transit Hawaii . Instead , it ’s more probable that the form was make by the Customs Director on the island , and submitted for signing by robotic playpen at a later date .
From theNASA History office :
The pictured form was not actually signed by the Apollo 11 crew after splashdown . It is most likely that it was created by the Customs Service ’s District Director for Hawaii , and the astronaut signatures were auto - compose onto it sometime later in the summertime of 1969 at NASA Headquarters .
On the flip side , astronauts do have to bespeak travel authorization before heading off satellite , asexcitable cosmonaut Reid Wisemanshared earlier this twelvemonth :
My government travel has been okay ! The terminus sound marvellous this meter of year.pic.twitter.com/mxnROMUkTX
— Reid Wiseman ( @astro_reid)April 8 , 2014
I particularly appreciate that the International Space Station qualify as no lodgings or meal call for . No one tell the bureaucrats aboutthe espresso machine heading into orbital cavity , or they ’ll make astronauts buy their own coffees .
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