Apollo 11 Astronauts Filled Out Customs Form

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A copy of the U.S. Customs form filled out by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins after their return to Earth on July 24, 1969.
Before the ticker tape parades and the inevitable world tour, the triumphant Apollo 11 astronauts were greeted with a more mundane aspect of life on Earth when they splashed down 40 years ago today - going through customs.

Just what did Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins have to declare? Moon rocks, moon dust and other lunar samples, according to the customs form filed at the Honolulu Airport in Hawaii on July 24, 1969 - the day the Apollo 11 crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean to end their historic moon landing mission.

It's a photoshopped fake. Everybody knows Hawaii has a history of providing fake documents. rofllol

I thought all of the moon landings happened on a sound stage in Hollywood (NOT!).

I have to believe that this document was more about getting a souvenir than it had to do with enforcing the law. I'm pretty sure this document was typed up and ready to go well before the astronauts got back to Hawaii, maybe even before the launch.

I'm guessing the Astronauts also smuggled moon booze back with them, but hid the booze behind the flux capacitor before entering customs.

Fake or not I remember that every overseas deployment I returned from, we had a customs delay. It did not make a rats ass how much or little we brought back. (Single guys tended to leave a whole bunch of $ over there and married guy tended to breing a whole bunch of merchandise back).

It was a pisser. If you were in the next days duty section, it mattered. Never knew anyone who did anything except fill out a piece of paper, sign it and stare at the shore.

Maybe it was different in the wardroom.

neptunechimney wrote: Fake or not I remember that every overseas deployment I returned from, we had a customs delay. It did not make a rats ass how much or little we brought back. (Single guys tended to leave a whole bunch of $ over there and married guy tended to breing a whole bunch of merchandise back).

It was a pisser. If you were in the next days duty section, it mattered. Never knew anyone who did anything except fill out a piece of paper, sign it and stare at the shore.

Maybe it was different in the wardroom.

Officers got no breaks either, in fact I served under more than one CO who insisted that the officers wait and let the enlisted personnel pass through customs first and I can't say they where wrong. Customs was just one more gate to cross through before you could set foot on US soil one more time.

In my business travels I have developed a bit more patience with customs, I know when I get out of the airport I can go home instead of having to check in with my local command to find out where I am going to be deployed next.