Flying Squid to Today I LearnedEnglish • 8 months agoTIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders.imagemessage-square132arrow-up1952arrow-down110file-textcross-posted to: customs_brokerthe_heinlein_society
arrow-up1942arrow-down1imageTIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders.Flying Squid to Today I LearnedEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square132file-textcross-posted to: customs_brokerthe_heinlein_society
minus-square@EverythingispenguinslinkEnglish9•8 months agoWouldn’t Michael Collins need a different form? His would need to say moon orbit not moon. I would expect bureaucrats to care about that.
minus-square@ilinamoratolinkEnglish5•8 months agoHe was in lunar “territorial waters,” so to speak, so it probably counts.
minus-square@CeruleanRuinlinkEnglish1•8 months agoIf Earth orbit doesn’t count as leaving Earth, then Lunar orbit counts as being in Lunar territory.
Wouldn’t Michael Collins need a different form? His would need to say moon orbit not moon. I would expect bureaucrats to care about that.
He was in lunar “territorial waters,” so to speak, so it probably counts.
If Earth orbit doesn’t count as leaving Earth, then Lunar orbit counts as being in Lunar territory.