The following excerpt is in no way an endorsement, but rather an article of interest that supports Youngmoses' assertion.
-Link now established-
Masons and the Lunar Landing
FREEMASONRY AND THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LUNAR LANDING
“All must hope that someday America would penetrate the deepest secrets of that mysterious orb, the moon,” wrote Jules Verne in his 1865 novel
From the Earth to the Moon. A little more than 100 years after Verne published his science fiction adventure, Americans achieved this dream when astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr., set foot on the moon on 20 July 1969. What might not be as widely known are the Masonic links to the moon landing fifty years ago and the early years of the NASA manned space program.
Illustrious Aldrin, 33°, the second man to step on the moon’s surface in the
Apollo 11 lunar landing, was a member of Clear Lake Lodge No. 1417 of Seabrook, Texas, as well as a member of the Scottish Rite bodies. Relatively unpublicized is the fact is that Brother Aldrin carried a double-headed eagle banner of the Scottish Rite, with an inset square and compasses and Grand Commander’s emblem, on his space journey. Through his auspices – and acting under special deputation of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Texas – Tranquility Lodge No. 2000 was founded in the Sea of Tranquility, though “meeting in Texas until a proper lodge room is constructed on the moon.”
Because of the historic feat of Brother Aldrin and his fellow crew members, it would be easy to think of him as the one Mason synonymous with space flight. In fact, this would be untrue.
Freemasons were involved in the American space program every step of the way that culminated with Neil Armstrong’s “one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Illustrious John H. Glenn, Jr., 33°, initially achieved fame as the third American to be launched into space and the first American to orbit the earth, doing so in Project Mercury’s
Friendship 7 spacecraft in February of 1962. Glenn hailed from Concord Lodge No. 688 in New Concord, Ohio, and eventually served as a prominent United States senator and as a presidential candidate. He also came out of retirement to fly on a space shuttle in 1998, in part to conduct research on spaceflight and aging. He currently holds the record for being the oldest person ever to fly in space, being 77 years of age at the time of the flight.
Illustrious Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., 33°, member of Carbondale Lodge No. 92 of Carbondale, Colorado, and the Orlando (Florida) Scottish Rite, piloted the
Faith 7 spacecraft on a 22-orbit mission which concluded Project Mercury in May of 1963. Cooper followed up this flight in August of the same year, commanding the two-man Gemini V mission. During Gemini V flight Brother Cooper, like Brother Aldrin six years later, carried a Masonic flag in his personal possessions during the mission."
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