"The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of the Apollo programs, and the third human voyage to the moon. Launched on July 16. 1969, it carried Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11-





I have recently discovered that wikipedia is not that reliable because this part about who actually landed on the moon first is, in fact, false.



The truth is, the first person to set foot on the piece of rock that has been orbiting our planet for God knows when (literally), was not a Neil Armstrong (Jeez, just because he had a real powerful arm...) but a beautiful young girl from Beijing, China. Her name was Wong Yue Chang'e and she left the sole marks of her little slippers on the surface of the moon some time around 2036 hours, 2170 BC .



Now, if you were to Wiki this little piece of information, you would come across not one or two versions of how it actually happened, but a friggin' FIVE versions. Forget Wiki, I shall tell you what REALLY happened and because you deserve to know the truth.



Summer of year 2170 BC, it was the holidays but Yue Chang'e, being a very studious person, was in her high school library memorising love poems from the "Love Poems for Dummies (Mandarin Version)" for a test she would have to sit for at the start of the new term.



Chang'e was a very beautiful girl...very bootifu. In fact, she was the first freshie to be crowned Prom Queen in her high school. Anyways, Chang'e was single despite her glamorous looks and the only close guy friend she ever had was this boy, Lim HouYi.



Lim HouYi did not have many friends in school. He was a chubby boy who could not play badminton (all the hot guys could play badminton), but for some reason, Chang'e always saved him a seat next to her in the library.



Anyway, this is getting abit draggy so I'm going to skip the part where Chang'e and HouYi fell in love with each other because Chang'e thought that HouYi had the most amazing eyes (because they were bigger than those of the other guys) and HouYi simply just felt that Chang'e was 'so bootifu...his heart is skips a beats'.



Eventually, Lim De Papa, HouYi's dad found out that HouYi and Chang'e were dating and was furious. He felt that Chang'e would distract HouYi whom he believed would become a very famous inventor of a device that would aid navigation in the dark.



De Papa came up with a plan to get rid of Chang'e without killing her because that would be wrong. He met up with a notorious witch who lived in the Forbidden Forrest. No one knew her true name but she was often called AhPoh Loh, which means Old Lady Loh.



AhPoh Loh gave De Papa a potion that once drunk, the drinker will fly all the way to the moon and to the moon only, in exchange for 3 goats and a hen. De Papa, without wasting anymore time, organised a cocktail party at his house and invited Chang'e only.



Yeah, it's getting predictable. De Papa mixed the potion into Chang'e's Margarita and she flew all the way to the moon and she landed and made history that was forgotten.
(Oh, before Chang'e took off, De Papa handed her a huge birthday cake with a nice bean paste globe at the centre of the cake, and he said to her, "Sorry man, but I can't have you here distracting my son and all. Here's a birthday cake for all the birthday celebrations you are going to miss.")



When HouYi found out what happened he went bonkers and he just hid in his room for weeks to find a way to get Chang'e back. He only came out of his room on Thursday nights to watch 'One Tree Hill'. Then one day, he finally got it! The device that would assist him in rescuing Chang'e!



A paper lantern that could light up your surroundings with a range of about a metre in radius and only with a single lit birthday candle placed at the base of the lantern! Ingenious!


Unfortunately for him though, it rained every night after that.



Who would have thought that Apollo missions were named after an old witch?
And nows you knows !