For quite a while, I believed that space shuttles could only go to the moon at night, because you can't see the moon during the day and therefore wouldn't be able to navigate your way to it.
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- I believed the sun and the moon were the same thing, just rotated to change from day to night.— Daniel
- i used to think that the moon would follow you in the car, also that it looked like a half moon.— natalie k
- I used to believe that Moon is the kid of Sun, because it has less light and Moon smiles with kids. — Syed Arbab Ahmed
- I always saw a crocodile on the moon, none of this man-in-the-moon nonsenseAnon
- I used to think that the moon was fastened with something so it wouldn't fall— Kelvin
- i used to think the moon followed me because i could always see it at nightAnon