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Questions - Neil Armstrong and Moon Landing - August 27-28, 2012

88% View Neil Armstrong Favorably; 5% Think Moon Landing A Fake
41% Say U.S. Should Resume Manned Missions to Moon
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National Survey of 1,000 Adults
Conducted August 27-28, 2012
By Rasmussen Reports

1* How closely have you followed recent news reports about the U.S. space mission to the moon?

2* Within the next decade, should the United States resume manned space missions to the moon?

3* Within the next decade, how likely is it that the United States will send another astronaut to the moon?

4* Did the United States actually succeed in landing men on the moon or was it all staged as a vast conspiracy to dupe the public?

5* Who was the first American to walk on the moon – Alan B. Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, or Jim Lovell?

6* Which U.S. space program put a U.S. astronaut on the moon – Mercury, Apollo, or Gemini?

7* Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of Neil Armstrong?

8* Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of John Glenn?

9* Which was more important—the program to land a man on the moon or the Space Shuttle program?

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence