Flying Squid to Today I [email protected]English • 1 year agoTIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square130fedilinkarrow-up1919
arrow-up1919imageTIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders.lemmy.worldFlying Squid to Today I [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square130fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoWouldn’t Michael Collins need a different form? His would need to say moon orbit not moon. I would expect bureaucrats to care about that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoHe was in lunar “territorial waters,” so to speak, so it probably counts.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoIf Earth orbit doesn’t count as leaving Earth, then Lunar orbit counts as being in Lunar territory.
Wouldn’t Michael Collins need a different form? His would need to say moon orbit not moon. I would expect bureaucrats to care about that.
He was in lunar “territorial waters,” so to speak, so it probably counts.
If Earth orbit doesn’t count as leaving Earth, then Lunar orbit counts as being in Lunar territory.