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Search results for "Artemis II astronauts traveled farther from Earth than anyone ever has"

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Social Media stated on April 06, 2026 in social media posts:
Photos and clips show the moon from Artemis II.
By Maria Briceño• April 8, 2026
Kay Bailey Hutchison stated on April 03, 2010 in a press release.:
"If the space-shuttle program is terminated, Russia and China will be the only nations ...with the capability to launch humans into space."
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 22, 2010
Instagram posts stated on September 06, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Astronaut Karen Nyberg filmed what “was supposedly a video from space” in front of a green screen.
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 9, 2022
Instagram posts stated on December 01, 2023 in a photo:
The International Space Station is in a pool, not in space.
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• December 5, 2023
Marco Rubio stated on July 07, 2011 in an interview with CBS:
"From now on, we have to pay the Russians $50 million an astronaut to send Americans to the space station"
By Amy Sherman• July 13, 2011
Facebook posts stated on July 20, 2013 in a Facebook post:
The very first meal on the surface of the moon was the Holy Communion.
By Janel Davis• September 16, 2013
Instagram posts stated on October 25, 2022 in Instagram post:
“If outer space was a vacuum, astronauts would train in vacuum chambers. Not in swimming pools. Outer Space is a hoax.”
By Michael Majchrowicz• November 1, 2022
Instagram posts stated on June 17, 2023 in an Instagram post:
NASA faked footage of astronauts on the International Space Station.
By Tom Kertscher, Ciara O'Rourke• June 23, 2023
Viral image stated on July 20, 2022 in an Instagram post:
NASA photos of the moon and Earth show that “space is fake.”
By Grace Abels• July 28, 2022
Instagram posts stated on May 08, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Dropped globe in video shows NASA astronauts filming in TV studio.
By Jeff Cercone• May 8, 2023
Facebook posts stated on January 04, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Says Elon Musk said, “The Boeing Starliner’s stranded astronauts are not with us anymore,” and “they won’t come back.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• January 8, 2025
Chain email stated on October 25, 2011 in a chain e-mail:
Barack Obama is the "First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space."
By Louis Jacobson• October 28, 2011
Rand Paul stated on March 14, 2013 in a speech at the CPAC conference:
Says the federal government is supporting a study in Hawaii to "develop a menu for when we colonize Mars."
By Louis Jacobson• March 15, 2013
Other Space stated on July 14, 2015 in in a Change.org petition:
"By declaring that Pluto was no longer a planet, the (International Astronomical Union) put into place a planetary definition that would have even declassified Earth as a planet if it existed as far from the sun as Pluto does."
By Anna Bruzgulis• July 21, 2015
Viral image stated on September 06, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Video proves “space is fake.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 9, 2022
Instagram posts stated on May 04, 2023 in an Instagram post:
The phone President Richard Nixon used to talk to the first astronauts on the moon is evidence the 1969 moon landing was faked.
By Ciara O'Rourke• May 5, 2023
Rush Limbaugh stated on March 06, 2014 in a segment on 'The Rush Limbaugh Show':
President Barack Obama shut down NASA space flights and turned the agency "into a Muslim outreach department."
By Katie Sanders• March 12, 2014
Instagram posts stated on June 14, 2023 in an Instagram post:
NASA space rockets can’t reach space.
By Tom Kertscher• June 26, 2023
Facebook posts stated on April 06, 2024 in a Facebook reel:
There are no real pictures of satellites on Google Images because outer space is not real.
By Sofia Ahmed• April 18, 2024
Facebook posts stated on February 05, 2023 in a Facebook post:
“There are no humans” on the International Space Station.
By Ciara O'Rourke• February 9, 2023

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