With the world talking about Artemis II and humanity’s next journey back towards the moon, HOT 1027 Breakfast found itself drawn into a very different kind of space story this morning.

Following an earlier conversation about the global mission making headlines, Parky took a call from a listener who claimed South Africa had its own covert lunar programme decades ago.

And that’s where things went completely off course.

The caller introduced listeners to what he described as a top-secret 1990s operation, allegedly backed by the CSIR, with one bold objective: getting South Africans into space before anyone knew about it.

From there, the story became increasingly outrageous.

There was a supposed flight commander, a highly questionable crew, and a launch plan that somehow began in Boksburg and involved a route past Ponte Tower before heading “straight up into space”.

Naturally, Parky’s disbelief only made the moment even better.