As has probably been noticed, Lunar Landing Hoax has been a little quiet for awhile. Say, a few months. I can only offer my sincerest apologies for this.

LLH is a labour of love for me, and sometimes it has to take a backseat to my “actual” work. This blog is a one-woman band in both writing and design, and it’s extremely time-consuming. I appreciate that people enjoy the blog – and it has been heartening to see how the hits, visits and contacts have held up during the low period – and I hope you’ll have the patience to stick around. Posts for this site take a long time to put together, and hope those that have shown some annoyance in the lack of updates understand why I would rather give the time to put a full, detailed post together rather than just stick anything up for the sake of it.

I have, however, thought long and hard about what to do with this blog. Although originally dedicated purely to hoax busting, it’s become more of a tribute to Apollo. To this end, I’ve assigned a new tag line, ripped directly from Gene Kranz (with the greatest respect): “celebrating and defending NASA’s finest hours”. So the direction from now on will be more generally based on Apollo, as it seems that 40 years on the story of Apollo still has much to say. I’ll still be hoax busting, but also focusing on the missions themselves and the men that flew them.

To that end, I have started to put together a set of profiles and backgrounds. Eventually, these profiles will cover the major players in Apollo. At the moment there is only one, Neil Armstrong’s, which you can view here – but hopefully this rather mammouth undertaking will help me get back in the swing of things. These profiles are useful to link to during other posts as they save text clutter, and crucially, are relatively easy to put together for me. As well as people profiles, I intend to write background information for things like the machines, the astronaut selection groups and beyond.

I know it’s been awhile since there was a substantial update (and I’m off to work on that now, I promise!) but things should improve in 2010. I am dedicated to keeping this blog alive, and look forward to planning and detailing the 40th anniversary of Apollo 13 in April.

Thanks for the messages and support, and I hope you’ll stick around! If you have any suggestions, comments, queries or critiques of the blog, the email is: editor@lunarlandinghoax.com – feel free to drop a message in.

Toni (editor)