Didn't Mitchell get sued by NASA because he performed an unauthorized "telepathic" experiment with a friend on the ground during TEC on Apollo 14?
Why would NASA sue him for conducting an experiment on the side that obviously would require no physical steps, or likely even time (he probably did them just at bedtime or so when he was 'free' to conduct the experiment. Did a quick web search, found nothing about NASA suing Mitchell over anything, probably another myth.
About 11: In several books I read claims that there is a bit of communication between Neil and Houston which had been deleted from the public recordings. According to the books, Neil spoke his famous first words and then said something in the sense of: "Oh my god, there are other spacecraft. They are sitting on the surface in a great circle around us."
Nope, Neil says nothing about other spacecraft being around the LM, besides, don't you think that they would have seen them as they landed, or directly after landing?? (There are windows on a LM.) Directly after saying his famous line, he proceeded to talk about the depth of the impressions his boot made on the lunar surface, and the consistency of the sand. Sorry, no missed-until-after-stepping-off-the-LEM comments about spacecraft all around the lander. Watch the films, particularly the video shot from inside the LM by Buzz, as there's one camera and no camera cuts or edits. Also a number of 3rd party entities monitored the moon missions, so a deletion of 'public records' is entirely not possible. The Russians, the British and the Australians all recorded the raw transmissions which were not encrypted in any way.
Furthermore, during the EVA a bright light shall have shown up and hovered above the two. Buzz then filmed it with a video camera. From the description it sounded like he was using a camcorder. Hm. The crazy thing is, that a camcorder was not part of the EVA gear (at least I don't know of any carried by any landing crew).
Camcorder? There was no such thing in 1969. However, the dolts who think up this stupid garbage are too stupid to realize that. The Apollo 11 moon landing had two
television cameras. One was carried in the command module, and the other was mounted (upside down actually) in the Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA), in Quad 4 of the Lunar Module. After Landing, and capturing Neil's 'first step' onto the lunar surface, (and Buzz's subsequent egress), the camera was removed from the MESA and mounted on a tripod and carried away from the LM to show the progress of the EVA. The cameras used on Apollo 11 were built by Westinghouse, had a resolution of approx. 220x220, 10 frames per second, black and white, and operated using a bandwidth of 409.6 kHz. It had a vidicon tube (not a ccd imager as a camcorder does), and recorded nothing, rather, it transmitted television images that were relayed back to earth using analog FM transmission. 'Camcorders' by comparison have ccd imagers and record to tape (analog) or more commonly today, digital recording to flash memory, as well as capture the images, use standard NTSC standards. What people fail to realize is that the technology that enables modern camcorders was developed to get us to the moon, and it wasn't until a few years after the moon landings that CCD imaging technology as well as IC had progressed to the point where we could have camcorders, not only for future space exploration, but for the average Joe as well.