1962 saw the launching of the first of
a series of eight OSO (Orbital Solar Observatories) missions, to cover a
span of seventeen years, the prime reason being to observe the discharge
of particles from the sun through the peak of a sunspot cycle, the largest
of the OSO's being Skylab, a manned observatory equipped with no less than
eight large telescopes, one of which was fitted with a coronagraph, this
vehicle was sent into orbit at 250 miles (approx.) above the surface of
the Earth. Three missions were conducted on Skylab from May 1973 to Feb.
1974, providing thousands of photos.
It had already been observed that the
space environment outside the Van Allen belt was too hostile for human
life, ( numerous tests had been conducted using dogs and primates), and no
live animals had been recovered from high altitude missions (above 15,000
miles) that had taken the animals outside the Van Allen belts, but live
recovery was common from the low (250 mile) orbit.
It has been rumored that
Yuri Gagarin,
was not in fact, the "first" man in space and that the Soviets had
actually blasted 3 men into deep space - but these tests resulted in the
deaths of all 3 of these pioneering hero Cosmonauts . (Since this was
written the Russians have indeed released the news that this was an
actuality - the names of the 3 heroes have now been published - it just
goes to show that conspiracy can and does exist!!!!)
In 1980 another satellite SMM (Solar
Maximum Mission) was sent up to observe the sun during the peak of a
cycle, this was supplemented by another satellite called Solwind in 1981,
the two satellites were to work in tandem to provide readings of the
intensity of the charged particles during the solar maxima, these
satellites started to provide some startling data, for example the
discovery of five comets that came so close to the sun that it was thought
that they actually passed through the suns solar flares. In fact the data
being collected by these satellites was starting to become an
embarrassment to the US agency that was responsible for the so-called
manned moon missions and the satellites were destroyed half way through
their mission, on the pretext that they were needed as targets for the
Starwars project, (ASAT) in September 1985, all data collected has
mysteriously disappeared.
Why was so much money expended on these
missions between 1973 and 1985, when the Apollo missions could have
collected the data from a much higher altitude, unobstructed by the outer
atmosphere, in fact why wasn't a lab set up on the moon for the project,
the reason is because there were no manned moon landings period, it was a
cleverly contrived hoax at the peak of the "Cold War" period of insanity,
why would so much money and effort be spent to find out if the outer space
environment was survivable if man had already been to the moon?????