Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) went viral on Tuesday — and not the good kind. Lee, who was speaking at a local high school on Monday suggested that the moon is a “planet” made up “mostly of gases.”
Lee is the former top Democrat on the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee.
“You’ve heard the word ‘full moon.’ Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases,” Lee, 74, told students.
“And that’s why the question is why or how could we as humans live on the moon? Are the gases such that we could do that?” the congresswoman said.
“I don’t think we’ve been on the moon the last 50 years. So we will be landing on the moon. What you’ll see today will be the closest distance that the moon has ever been in the last 20 years. Which means that’s why they will shut the light down because they will be close to the Earth,” she said of the eclipse alignment.
“I don’t know about you, I want to be first in line to know how to live and to be able to survive on the moon,” Jackson Lee added. “That’s another planet which we’re going to see shortly.”
Lee previously said that American astronauts planted a flag on Mars.
Sheila Jackson Lee also thinks America planted its flag on Mars… https://t.co/23dNe7EPOv pic.twitter.com/jXXzCe6Owm
— Jacki Kotkiewicz (@jackikotkiewicz) April 9, 2024
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