The 1969 moon landing, one of the most significant events of the twentieth century, has been sensationally revealed to be an elaborate stunt by the Irish bookmaker, Paddy Power.
The bookmaker admitted that the entire moon landing was their doing on their website at noon today. In their usual cheeky chappie, scallywag tone they confessed that the whole space race, from Laika (the first dog in space) to Yuri Gagarin, to JFK insisting that America would get to the moon before the 60s were out, all of it was dreamt up by their marketing department.
The man reputed to be the first man to step on the moon, Neil Armstrong, was in fact a team leader in Paddy Power’s marketing department in Dublin at the time. Buzz Aldrin is believed to be a pseudonym. The third man alleged to have participated in the mission was dubbed Michael Collins, apparently an homage to an old Irish rebel leader.
Last August, Paddy Power sent Kent lad Dean Saunders (not the ex-Aston Villa and Liverpool striker) into space where he became the first man to take a punt from space.
