AFP demonstrates how well they check facts

I mean, this is hilarious!

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2025 and wants to build a permanent base there shortly after, the head of Russian space agency Roskosmos said Friday.

"According to our estimates we will be ready for a manned flight to the Moon in 2025," Anatoly Perminov told reporters. An "inhabited station" could be built there between 2027 and 2032, he said.

The only moon landing in history is NASA's Apollo expedition in 1968.

(Emphasis mine.)

First the unfired bullets that were "shot" at the old woman's home, now this. And in case you just tuned in, December 1968 was when Apollo 8 first orbited the Moon. The US landed on the Moon in July 1969. We did it again five more times, the last one being Apollo 17, in December 1972.

So if the illustrious French news agency can't get some basic, obvious, simple history right, what does that say about the rest of their "reporting"?

And I thought reading about pompous and obtuse Brian DePalma was funny.

HT: Hot Air.