The Apollo astronauts who came back from the moon all seemed to be different people, either with a big change in personality or strange behavior. Why is this happening, what did they go through on the moon back then?
From July 21, 1969, American astronaut Armstrong left the first footprint on the surface of the moon, to December 12, 1972, Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Andrew Cernan left the last footprint on the surface of the moon, a total of more than 3 years.
Imagine Amst's first footprint on the moon
In the past three years, the Apollo program has carried out a total of 7 missions, except for the failure of the Apollo 13 mission, the other 6 missions have successfully landed on the moon, and a total of 12 astronauts have reached the lunar surface.
After the Apollo moon mission ended, people thought that the space age would be ushered in, and mankind's pace would go farther into the starry sky, however, there is a saying: "debut is the peak", and in more than 50 years, mankind has not accomplished a more ambitious feat than the moon landing program.
The Apollo spacecraft returns
For something as grand as the moon landing, people's attention is often only on the matter itself, but an important factor is overlooked, that is, these feats were accomplished by Apollo astronauts.
In fact, too, people remember the moon landing, but forget about them, and most of them are not very good when they return to Earth: their personalities have changed drastically, they behave strangely, they are irritable and drunk, and they are chattering .......
It wasn't until the British writer interviewed nine of the astronauts and compiled them into a book that people knew what these astronauts had gone through and why they had come to be like this. There are these strange moves.
Lunar image
The first man to return from the moon wanted to make people forget about him
"This is a small step for a person, a big step for humanity", "We are here for peace!" These are the words of Armstrong, the astronaut of Apollo 11, on the moon, and from these words, you can feel Armstrong's excitement, high spirits, and high spirits.
Indeed, Armstrong has always been such a somewhat "naughty" and cheerful person. There are many interesting facts about him, but the most famous of them is "Good luck, Mr. Gosky." ”
This sentence was uttered by Armstrong when he returned to the lunar module, and since the entire lunar landing process was broadcast live on television at that time, this sentence was heard by many people at the time, and everyone felt inexplicable.
Apollo astronauts on the moon
It wasn't until 26 years later that the mystery was revealed. It turns out that Armstrong was playing near his neighbor's house when he suddenly heard the Gorskey woman shouting, "You want to go to my bed, don't think about it!" unless the neighbor's child can go to the moon. ”
This sentence has always been remembered by Armstrong, so, when he landed on the moon, he said such an inexplicable sentence. However, from this sentence, you can feel Armstrong's relaxed and casual mood on the moon.
But after returning to Earth, Armstrong chose to live in seclusion, and after retiring from NASA, he went to teach at a university, and he once said to the outside world: "How much time does it take to make people forget me!", which is a complete change in personality compared to before the moon landing, like a different person.
Armstrong
The frustration was evident in this sentence, and he rarely talked about the moon landing for the rest of his life, and after retiring from college, he moved to a remote farm far from the people, where he spent the rest of his life until his death on August 25, 2012.
So what is it that makes him so tormented, reluctant to mention some of the past events of the moon landing, and even wants people to forget his identity as the first person to go to the moon.
Elderly Armstrong
Aldrin, who partnered with Armstrong, changed in the other direction and became irritable and drunken in fights.
There is an "out-of-body" feeling on the Moon
Aldrin, who was riding Apollo 11 with Armstrong, once said that after the moon there was a feeling of being out of the body, feeling that he was not himself at that time, as if he was not himself on the moon, but someone else.
Aldrin
Upon his return, Aldrin's temperament changed dramatically, he became irritable and began to drink heavily.
In September 2002, under the filming of the media, 72-year-old Aldrin punched the host in the face, and when the incident was reported, it caused a huge sensation.
And the reason why Aldrin beat people is also simple, that is, the host Sibrell holds a Bible and asks Aldrin to swear that he has been on the moon.
Aldrin refused the request, and chased after him to swear that when he was about to get to the door of a hotel, Aldrin punched the other man in the face, which happened to be filmed by the camera.
Elderly Aldrin, and the moment of punching the host
To say that before, Aldrin was definitely not such a character, if it was such a character, such a major task of Apollo 11 would not have fallen to him and Armstrong.
At that time, Aldrin was not one out of 100 million, but at least one out of 10 million people, both physically and psychologically.
Such a person with excellent psychological quality, on a business trip to the moon, that is, 8 days and 3 hours, became so irritable that people couldn't believe it, did his personality change have anything to do with his "out-of-body" on the moon?
And there is another one who has the same experience as Aldrin, that is, Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke, who is also the same as Aldrin, has a drastic temperament, alcoholism, violence and self-indulgence, and uses alcohol to anesthetize himself, no less than Aldrin.
In addition to Aldrin's out-of-body feeling, there are two other astronauts who feel like they are on the moon, as if they are being watched by a mysterious force.
Charles Duke on the moon
On the moon, it seems to be watched by a mysterious force
"It's as if a mysterious force has put the stone there and directed me to pick it up"
These are the words of Apollo 15 astronaut James Alwin, who once picked up a rock almost the same age as the solar system on a crater on the moon, known as the "Origin Stone"
Near the lunar crater
He felt a mysterious force on the moon guiding him and influencing him, he could feel "him" but he couldn't see him.
After returning from the moon, Alvin founded an organization called High Flight, and his experience on the moon led him to believe in the existence of a "god", and this god was not a god as people understood it, but a creator as Alvin thought of it.
He also organized several expeditions to Mount Ararat in Turkey in search of the wreckage of Noah's Ark, believing that there must be a god as he had encountered it on the moon. For the rest of his life, he lived in search of "God".
James Elwin
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell had the same experience as Alwin, and in an interview with the media, he talked about his experience on the moon, and he had the feeling of being watched by mysterious forces, although he couldn't see "them", but he could feel that his every move was being watched.
In addition, he had a magical feeling that he seemed to have established a psychic contact with "them", and "they" were, in Alwin's view, the advanced intelligent beings in the universe.
Edgar Mitchell
Like Alwin, after retiring in 1972, he founded an organization called the Institute for Noetic Science, and spent the rest of his life studying the paranormal, studying the relationship between consciousness, science, and the mysterious unknown.
Apparently he wanted to find out what kind of mysterious force he was watching him from the moon, and he was the only one to have revealed in public that Earth was not just a planet inhabited by humans.
His previous work experience has given him access to a lot of "secret" information, and the content of this information, combined with his experience on the moon, has convinced him of his own judgment.
Edgar Mitchell on the moon
Epilogue:
I believe that many people, except for Armstrong, the first person to land on the moon, most of them don't know, don't know, and don't know the other 11 astronauts.
This article introduces some of the astronauts' strange encounters on the moon, so that more people know their encounters and confusions, in fact, there are some normal astronauts who have returned to the earth, such as: Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Raven Bean After retiring, he began to paint, and the content of the painting is related to the moon, and the paint he paints is also involved in the lunar soil he brought back from the moon, not to mention the value of the painting, the value of the lunar soil alone, is already very high.
Alan Laven Bean and his moon paintings
Perhaps, the reason for the drastic change in temperament and strange behavior of the astronauts on the moon is related to their state of mind. Sometimes standing on the peak and seeing the bottom of the mountain can make people's mood change, and there is a kind of heroism at a glance.
Just imagine, when you stand on the moon and see the earth where human beings live, the feeling is even stronger than standing on a high mountain, and the earth where human beings live has become smaller. Perhaps, it is this gap in mood that causes them to behave so strangely.
Looking from the Moon to the Earth
More than 50 years have passed, and only four astronauts who landed on the moon are still alive, and it is unknown whether they will ever see humans land on the moon. I think it is possible, as long as they live for another six years, they will see the Chinese follow the footsteps of the past and land on the moon again.