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      I CAPRICORN 
      1 I MARS 
      ATTACK! What NASA's own websites confess about the current impossibility 
 
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             Was it "public apathy" that killed the Space Race "I can't believe it!" "They who have put out the peoples' eyes reproach them for 
            their blindness." "Thirty years ago, when the Apollo astronauts became the first 
            humans to voyage to the Moon, they surveyed the lunar landscape and 
            spoke of 'magnificent desolation.' Thirty years later, the Moon is 
            still as desolate as they left it. The Apollo astronauts saw a 
            barren, airless, lifeless world that made them glad to come 
            home." "Yes, it's depressing that we didn't stay on the Moon the 
            first time. But it's time to get over it. The thousands of people 
            who will build this first lunar base will probably live under the 
            surface to protect them from radiation." "NASA's message has been that 
            space travel is safe and routine - yet still so dangerous that 
            ordinary people must be kept out. That's Industrial Age 
            thinking: bureaucratic-elitist, anti-consumer, slow to adapt to 
            change. In the Information Age, extreme sports fascinate us, and 
            industries arise to cater to that interest: Everest-travel companies 
            for the brave, reality TV for the couch potato, clothing and gear 
            companies for explorer and wannabe alike."  | 
            
 "You're fired! Oh, I love how that sounds. I love that so 
            much, I'm gonna say it again. You're fired!"  Were the natives getting restless? What on Earth would Hollywood do if interplanetary space-travel by humans were impossible in sexy low-powered spacecraft lacking bulky but mandatory shielding from deadly radiation? And yes, it does appear that perhaps dozens of astronauts were murdered to keep NASA's Moon secrets safe in their graves! Apollo 1's fire on the launching pad during practice occurred coincidentally a couple days after Gus Grissom gave an impromptu press conference and confessed NASA was at least 10 years from reaching the Moon. The elite draft dodgers were not much better off than a typical grunt fresh out of Basic and marching on point into the jungle full of Agent Orange and Pentagon-fed "Viet Cong" (Vietnamese word for "peasant"). The elite dodgers were definitely better off than the 30+ US soldiers in post-War Korea who volunteered for "medical experiments", only to get cooked at 400 degrees F, apparently to test human limits of survival when BBQed by 250 degree sunlight in a spacecraft's tin can. Although 25 years old, Capricorn 1 is still the closest Hollywood has come to a whistleblower movie on NASA's fraud and organized crimes. And, may still hold true when NASA and/or "Space Projects of United Nations (SPUN)" demands trillions of taxdollars to land human astros on Mars in the next few years.  | 
      The Conspiracy that never dies
 
 If the Idiot Box says so then it must be true!Encounters 
      With The Unexplained
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TeeVee Review: This show included an interview with Bill Kaysing, author of We Never Went to the Moon and an employee of NASA Apollo-engine contractor Boeing-Rocketdyne, who reported that Hollywood's Stanley Kubrick (2001 - A Space Odyssy - re-released for brainwashing in 2002, presumably with the same cloned ending) directed the Apollo Simulation Project (from Norton Air Force Base in Los Angeles), and that the lunar lander's rocket motor should have melted a hole so deep the LEM would have landed on bedrock after blowing all the sand and boulders out of the way. This "documentary" appears to have been an exercise in damage control against Bart Sibrel's excellent documentary, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon (2001 - [A Spaced Travesty]), since they interviewed Sibrel and had a self-confessed bad-scientist rebut a highly censored list of evidence. Sibrel noted that NASA only kept 20 photos of the entire Apollo 11 lunar mission, yet PAX failed to point out that 100,000s of photos were admittedly taken by NASA in previous robotic lunar missions, both orbitals and landings. Zero mention was made of the most-damning proof - the deadly radiation in space that requires 10-foot-thick lead walls of both spacecraft and spacesuits in order to leave low-Earth orbit. Little explanation was provided with Sibrel's best evidence - that the cloud formations in Apollo video of "distant" Earth bear zero resemblance to an entire planet and only can be explained via zoomed-in close-ups. PAX chose all or nothing conspiracy - either the astronauts never left the ground and NASA never sent robots into outer space, or NASA never lies and actually landed men on the Moon and returned them alive (not counting 3 "accidentally" killed on the launch pad plus 3 more "accidentally" killed in a "routine" plane crash). I guess it was too much to hope for a real documentary on TV. The 2nd half of the show was about Christian Bible scholarship of Old Testament (and thus impacted Jewish and Islamic scriptures) - implying the rediculous notion that a viewer only has 2 choices: either NASA did land humans on the Moon (science), or the viewer must accept that God and not human beings wrote the Bible (religion).
The commentator (an unbiased "cop" on sitcom TeeVee) alleged that the viewer cannot figure out - and did not even suggest - that NASA:
Footnote: after emailing this link to Bart Sibrel and thousands of other Americans, this webmaster's email crashed for one week (outgoing only), despite similar emailings being successful hundreds of times. Even psychiatrists admit one is not paranoid when they are really out to get you.
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       "This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the 
      Creation." Fire-till-touchdown 
      not feasible for the Apollo LEM Preliminary 
      results of the "fire-till-touchdown" study by Grumman indicated that this 
      maneuver was not feasible. The engine might be exploded by driving the 
      shock wave into the nozzles. The base heatshield temperature would exceed 
      1,789K (5,000 degrees F), which was high enough to melt portions of the 
      structure, possibly causing destruction of the foot pads. The allowable 
      pressure on the nonstructural elements of the base heatshield would be 
      exceeded; and the descent engine flow field would tend to cause a "POGO" 
      effect which would cause landing instability and could prevent engine 
      cutoff. "The Secretary of Defense announced the assignment of Lt. Gen. 
      Samuel C. Phillips (USAF), who had been serving as Apollo Program Director 
      in the NASA Office of Manned Space Flight, to be Commander of the Air 
      Force Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO) in Los Angeles.... 
      NASA named Rocco A. Petrone, Director of Launch Operations at KSC, to 
      succeed Samuel C. Phillips as Director of the Apollo Program effective 
      September 1."  | 
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       "Grumman built a full-scale cardboard model of the LEM to aid in 
      studying problems of cockpit geometry, specifically the arrangement of 
      display panels. This mockup was reviewed by MSC astronauts and the layout 
      of the cockpit was revised according to some of their suggestions. Also 
      Grumman reported that a preliminary analysis showed the reaction control 
      system plume heating of the LEM landing gear was not a severe problem (31 
      August 1963). In honor of the late President John F. 
      Kennedy, who was assassinated six days earlier, President Lyndon B. 
      Johnson announced that LOC and Station No. 1 of the Atlantic Missile Range 
      would be designated the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) (28 
      November 1963). Grumman conducted manned drop tests to 
      determine the LEM crew's ability to land the spacecraft from a standing 
      position (17 April 1964). All tests were run with the subject in an 
      unpressurized suit in a "hands off" standing position with no restraint 
      system or arm rests. A LEM ascent engine exploded during altitude firings 
      at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC - 1 Sept. 1965). A LM test 
      failed in the Grumman ascent stage manufacturing plant December 17. A window in LM-5 shattered during its initial cabin 
      pressurization test, designed to pressurize the cabin to 3.9 
      newtons per square centimeter (5.65 pounds per square inch). Both inner 
      and outer windows and the plexiglass cover of the right-hand window 
      shattered when the pressure reached 3.5 newtons per sq cm (5.1 psi - 17 
      December 1967). ASPO Manager George M. Low and others from MSC met with 
      Grumman's LM engineering staff, headed by Thomas J. Kelly, to discuss the 
      descent stage heatshield and thermal blanket problems associated with 
      reduced thrust decay of the descent engine at lunar touchdown. Grumman 
      would begin design studies of a jettisonable descent engine skirt. (7 June 
      1968). The Allison descent-stage propellant tank, 
      being redesigned at Airite Division of Sargent Industries to a "lidless" 
      configuration, blew up during qualification test at Airite. The 
      crew noticed loss of pressure and therefore tightened fittings and 
      repressurized. As the pressure went up, the tank blew into several pieces 
      (27 September 1968). 'During this period, however, there occurred a 
      successful unmanned test of the Lunar Module and two unmanned tests of the 
      Saturn V vehicle.' The possibility of an unmanned LM 
      landing was discussed at NASA Hq. (11 February 1969). The additional direct cost to the Apollo research and 
      development program from the January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 fire was estimated 
      at $410 million, principally for spacecraft modifications, NASA 
      Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight George E. Mueller 
      testified in congressional hearings. The accident 
      delayed the first manned flight of the spacecraft by about 18 
      months (11 March 1969). Russian Luna 15 
      unmanned soil return mission launched coincident with Apollo 11 mission in 
      last ditch attempt to return lunar soil to earth before United States. 
      After completing 86 communications sessions and 52 orbits of the Moon at 
      various inclinations and altitudes, crashed on the moon on 20 July in an 
      attempted landing. Altitude data used in programming inaccurate or 
      guidance system unable to cope with effect of lunar mascons (gravitational 
      mass concentrations on Moon - 13 July 1969)." During the Apollo 11 
      management debriefing, the ASPO Manager noted a number of items requiring 
      investigation. During separation from the S-IVB stage, the CSM autopilot apparently had difficulty determining 
      direction of rotation. After the CSM hatch removal, there was a strong 
      odor of burnt material in the tunnel. The temperature in the lunar 
      module was too cold during sleep periods. The biological isolation garment 
      was uncomfortably hot and its visor fogged. The crew observed flashes at 
      the rate of about one per minute in the command module at 
      night." "The Universe is home to numerous exotic and beautiful phenomena, 
      some of which can generate almost inconceivable amounts of energy. 
      Supermassive black holes, merging neutron stars, streams of hot gas moving 
      close to the speed of light ... these are but a few of the marvels that 
      generate gamma-ray radiation, the most 
      energetic form of radiation, billions of times more 
      energetic than the type of light visible to our eyes." "All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual 
      level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it 
      intends to direct itself. The great masses of the people will more easily 
      fall victims to a big lie than to a small one." 
 
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