Customs Declaration from NASA July 1969

[irisblue]

Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) Tweeted:
Apollo 11 U.S. Customs form after first moon landing by astronauts, 50 years ago: https://t.co/ARYxgg07pk

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We are a bad ass people. Fractious, contentious, loud, stiff necked, arrogant as all get out; still for me the phrase "To Form A More Perfect Union" can give me goosebumps.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Flight routing: Cape Kennedy -- Moon -- Honolulu

I'd laugh, but making sure the paperwork is filled out correctly is no laughing matter.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Handwriting analysis of those signatures is telling.

Anyone else seeing that?

[Aristus]

3. Yeah. For all the talk about how Armstrong was quiet, shy, retiring, modest, etc.

he sure has a grandiose signature.

[irisblue]

4. John Hancock. Neil Armstrong

Both earned their swagger and in their signatures.

[dalton99a]

6. He abbreviated it after Apollo:

[treestar]

5. I remember that they quarantined astronauts

then and those moon rocks were treated like they could be a threat to world security. They weren't sure about them. I guess they figured out that they were made of the usual elements of the universe.

Departure from "moon!"