NASA had to train Apollo 11's astronauts to not use profanity (2019)

singleshot_

“That’s one small step for man, one… oh, fuck.”

incognito124

English is my second language, but all the examples in TFA* seem... mild. I wonder if they were filtered for the purposes of the article, or profanity just became more widespread in the past 50 years. * = :)

john_strinlai

> Dr. Larry Poland, president of the non-denominational Miami Bible College, contacted NASA and President Richard Nixon to complain about the profuse profanity from the Apollo 10 crew, demanding they apologize for their behavior. despite my best efforts, i have never been able to understand why or how swear words are inherently offensive. it just does not click with me. a request like this just seems absolutely ridiculous ( especially given the context the offending words were said).

Rotdhizon

Growing up I never cursed. As an older teen and young adult I started to around my friends but never in the home around my family. Then I entered the military and very quickly cursing became deeply ingrained in my speech. To the point it was difficult to speak a entire sentence without a curse word. Towards the end I embraced religion heavily and made it a point to cut out cursing entirely. Nowadays I do not curse at all nor do I even think about doing so, even the muscle memory is completely gone from my speech. As someone now who does not curse whatsoever under any circumstance, hearing those around me curse, it literally hurts my ears. I can pick those words out of a crowd like they're being spoken into a speakerphone. Especially being around military people still who curse every few words and just about every single sentence has an F word throw in, it's very uncomfortable.

AbraKdabra

As the great and only Shrek said "better out than in", if someone is offended by you cursing the fuck out of your lungs, just curse more and scare them out of your sight.

mzk185

Farisa has entered the forest.

dbvn

wow - people are lame. I want to hear their authentic reaction to being 240,000 miles from Earth... not what the pastor down the street thinks they should say.

doormatt

>Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins cursed fewer than 15 times during their moon-landing mission, based on NASA transcripts. Most of that came from command-module pilot Collins. Aldrin cursed just once and Armstrong didn’t at all. From what I've read about Armstrong, absolutely no surprise there.

newtonsmethod

Unless they mean another "f word", the f word was used in Apollo 10. It's just that the transcripts change it to "freaking": > Oh, shit' What they did, they made it a two - Ain't this smart' Ain't that a smart freaking sack. ( https://apollojournals.org/afj/ap10fj/as10-day2-pt9.html ) It can be found in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQVEsfa15SY

PowerElectronix

I would't be able to stay polite if I were walking on the f-ing moon.

popeda

Popopo.. NASA this NASA that, they marble photos are quite fake..