Talk:Apollo 11 Goodwill Messages

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A fact from Apollo 11 Goodwill Messages appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 7 November 2007.
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I think this belongs in wikisource Victuallers 14:53, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

And that raises the issue of copyright. How many of these statements are actually freely usable? And what about the translations? Evil Monkey - Hello 00:56, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Never crossed my mind that a head of state would copyright his/her public statements and an US federal agency such as NASA would copyright the translations of such statements in their press release. It's all in Public domain, the NASA press release is available at [1] and the text is also partly available at the New Mexico State University [2]. But of course, any second opinions are welcome.--Termer 04:18, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

You can't be serious? Copy rights do not apply in this case, these are statements made into the public record by various government officials performing their duties as heads of state. --Cloveious 04:24, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
If the translations were performed by a NASA (or other US government) employee they will be PD. Overall, I think all the messages are not appropriate for a Wikipedia article. As Victuallers said this is why we have Wikisource. Evil Monkey - Hello 19:31, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Even if the translations were done by the local government employees or in the embassies to the US, it's still PD. Or else is there a reason to believe that NASA has ever outsourced their press releases to private sector who might have commercial interest in any of these public statements? Regarding narrowing the article down and taking the full press release into Wikisource, sure why not. I'd leave the list of countries and the heads of states as a part of the article like the NASA Officials etc. are currently listed and then anybody who wants to see what any of these guys had to say, can pull out the full text from Wikisource. --Termer 20:20, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

  • I just read an article about this topic on Space.com [3], It seems like this could make a bang up featured article someday. --70.72.102.90 (talk) 14:22, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I changed the line saying it would stay on the Moon for thousands of years.

There's at least a moderate, if not a very strong possibility that we will have a presence on the Moon in several thousand years. While it WOULD last for thousands of years if humans didn't return to the Moon, the Chinese are returning in a few years, as is the United States. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.42.151.79 (talk) 08:28, 21 January 2008 (UTC)