Wagging the Moondoggie - David McGowan

wagging the moon doggy part one by Dave mcgallen as read from the center for an informed America's website which is Center an informed america.com follow the tab for wagging the moond doggy under features I believe and you can read along as well thank you to Dave who passed last year after a very brief but tragic battle with uh small cell lung cancer prolific researcher voracious reader our thoughts and prayers go out to uh his family wagging the moon doggy part one by Dave McGowan it is commonly believed that man will fly directly from the earth to the moon but to do this we would require a vehicle of such gigantic proportions that it would prove an economic impossibility it would have to develop sufficient speed to penetrate the atmosphere and overcome the Earth's gravity and having traveled all the way to the Moon it must still have enough fuel to land safely and make the return trip to Earth furthermore in order to give the Expedition a margin of safety we would not use one ship alone but a minimum of three each rocket ship would be taller than the New York's Empire State Building almost A4 Mile High and weigh about 10 times the tonnage of the Queen Mary or some 800,000 tons verer Von braa father of the Apollo space program writing in conquest of the Moon I can see all of you scratching your heads out there and I know exactly what it is you're thinking why are we taking this detour to the Moon it had all began a few months ago when I became very busy at my day job as well as with family drama with what turned out to be a very timeconsuming side project all of which made it increasingly difficult for me to carve out chunks of time to work on the remaining chapters in The Laurel Canyon series over the next two months or so I pretty much lost all momentum and soon found it hard to motivate myself to write even when I could find the time that happens sometimes though it sounds rather cliche writer Block it's a very real phenomenon there are many times when I can sit down the keyboard and the words just flow out of my head faster than I can get them down on the page there are also times when producing just one halfway decent sentence seems to be a near impossible task this was one of those times I found a new source of inspiration however when my wife emailed me the recent story of a fake Dutch moonrock which I and many others found quite amusing and which also reminded me that I had a lot of other bits and pieces of information concerning the Apollo project that I had collected over the nine years that have passed since I first wrote about the alleged moon landing after taking a first look back in 2000 I was pretty well convinced that The Landings were in fact faked but it was perfectly obvious that the rather short mostly tongue and cheek post that I put up back in July of 2000 was not going to convince anyone else of that so I contemplated taking a more comprehensive look at the Apollo program toward that end I pulled out my original Apollo post along with various other bits and pieces scattered throughout past newsletters threw in all the newer material that I've never made it onto my website and then comb the internet for additional information information doing so I realized that a far better case could be made than what I had previously offered to readers I also realized that a far better case could be made than was currently available on the net I was rather surprised actually by how little there is out there a couple of books by Bill casing and Ralph Renee a smattering of websites and a variety of YouTube videos of varying quality virtually all of the websites and videos tend to stick to the same ground covered by casing and Renee and they almost all use the same NASA photographs to argue the same points so too do the sites devoted to debunking the notion that The Landings were faked and those sites seem to actually outnumber the hoax sites while suffering through the numbing uniformity of the various websites at both sides of the aisle it became perfectly clear that the hoax side of the debate was in serious need of a Fresh Approach and some new insights so I began writing again and truth be told while the Apollo story May initially appear to be a radical departure from the ongoing Laurel Canyon series it actually isn't much of a detour at all after all we're still going to be living in the' 60s and 7s and to a significant degree we're probably still going to be hanging out in Laurel Canyon because who else after all was NASA going to trust to handle the post production work on all that Apollo footage if not Lookout Mountain laboratory I am very well aware by the way that there are many many people out there even many of the people who have seen through the other Tall Tales told by our government who think the moon Hox theorists are complete Cs and a whole lot of coordinated effort has gone into casting them as such that makes way into the moon hoax debate a potentially dangerous Affair remember when Luther played by Don knot gets taken to court and sued for slander in The Ghost and Mr Chicken and don't try to pretend like you've never seen it because we both know that you have he goes into the court and a character witness is called and the guy delivers credible testimony favoring Luther and it's clear that the courtroom is impressed and everything is looking good for our nebish hero Luther remember what happens next though on cross-examination the witness reveals that he is the president of a UFO club that holds their meetings on ours the courtroom of course errupts with laughter and all of that formerly credible testimony immediately flies right out the window I've already received emails warning that I will suffer a similar fate from people who heard me discussing the topic on Maria hel's radio show not to worry though I have somewhat of an advantage over others who have attempted to travel this path I don't really care my mission is to farad out the truth wherever it may lie if at various points along the way some folks are offended and others question my sanity that's not really something lose a lot of Sleepover anyway a whole lot of people are extremely reluctant to give up their belief in the success of the Apollo missions a lot of people in fact pretty much shut down at the mere mention of the moon landings being faked refusing to even consider the possibility and yet there are some among the true believers who will allow that though they firmly believe that we did indeed land on the moon they would have understood if it had been a hoax given the climate of the times with the Cold War tensions simmering and anxious Americans looking for some sign that their country was still dominant and not technologically inferior to the Soviets it could be excused if NASA had duped the world such sentiments made me realize that the moonlanding LIE is somewhat unique among the big lies told to the American people in that it was in the grand scheme of things a relatively benign lie and one that could be easily spun admitting that The Landings were faked would not nearly have the same impact as say admitting to mass murdering 3,000 Americans and destroying billions of dollars worth of real estate and then using that crime as a pretext to wage two illegal Wars and strip away civil legal and privacy rights and yet despite the fact that it was a relatively benign lie there is a tremendous reluctance among American people to let go of the notion that we sent men to the Moon there are a couple of reasons for that one of them being that there's a romanticized notion that those were great years years when one was proud to be an American and in this day and age people need that kind of romanticized nostalgia to cling to but that is not the main reason that people cling so tenacious often even angrily to what is essentially the adult version of Santa Claus the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy what primarily motivates them is fear but it is not the LIE itself that scares people it's what the LIE says about the world around us and how it really functions for if NASA was able to pull off such an outrageous hoax before the entire world and then keep that lie in place for four decades what does that say about the control of the information we receive what does that say about the media the scientific community the educational community and all the other institutions we depend on to tell us the truth what does that say about the very nature of the world we live in that is what scares the hell out of people and prevents them from even considering the possibility that they could have been so thoroughly duped it's not about being lied to about the moonlandings that people have a problem with it's the realization that comes with that Revelation if they could lie about that they could lie about anything sorry my neighbors are apparently listening to some music it has been my experience that the vast majority of the people who truly believe in the moon landings know virtually nothing about the alleged missions and when confronted with some of the more implausible aspects of those alleged missions the most frequently offered argument is the one that every conspiracy theorist has heard at least a thousand times that can't possibly be true because there is no way that a lie that big could have been covered up all this time too many people would have known about it but what if your own eyes and your own innate those suppressed ability to think critically and independently tell you that what all the institutions of the state insist is true is actually a lie what do you do with that what do you do then do you trust in your own cognitive abilities or do you blindly follow Authority and pretend as though everything can be explained away if your worldview will not allow you to believe what you can see with your own eyes then the problem it would appear is with your worldview so do you change that worldview or do you live in denial the moonlanding LIE is unique among the big lies in another way as well it is a lie that seemingly cannot be maintained indefinitely Washington need never come clean on say the Kennedy assassinations after all they've been lying about the the Lincoln assassination for nearly a century and a half now and getting away with it but the moonlanding hopes I would think has to have some kind of expiration date how many decades can pass after all without anyone even coming to close to a reenactment before people start to catch on four obviously haven't been enough how about five six or seven how about when we hit the 100y year anniversary if the first transatlantic flight hadn't been followed up with another one for over 40 years would anyone have found that unusual if during the early days of the automobile when folks were happily cruising along in their model T's at a top speed of 40 mph someone had suddenly developed a car that had be driven safely at 500 mph and then after a few years that car disappeared for many decades despite tremendous advances in automotive technology no one ever again came close to building a car that could perform like that would that seem at all odd there are indications that this lie does indeed have a shelf life according to a July 17 2019 post on CNN.com quote it's been 37 years since the last Apollo moon mission and tens of millions of Young Americans have no memories of watching the moonlandings live a 20052 2006 poll by maryn dmar a space consultant based in Houston Texas found more than a quarter of Americans 18 to 25 expressed some doubt that humans set foot on the moon the goal of any dissident Rider is to crack open the doors of perception enough to let a little light in so that hopefully the seeds of a political Reawakening can be planted there are many doors that can be Pride open to achieve that goal but this one seems particularly vulnerable join me then as we take a little trip to the moon or at least pretend to NASA had really wanted to fake the moon landing we're talking purely hypothetical here the timing was certainly right the Advent of Television having reached worldwide iCal Mass only years prior to the moon landing would prove instrumental to the Fraud's success Wired Magazine Adolf Hitler knew a little bit about the Fine Art of lying and M comp he wrote that if you're going to tell a lie make sure it's a really big lie truth be told I'm not exactly conversing in the German language so that might not be an exact translation but it certainly captures the gist of what the future fur was trying to say he went on to explain that this was so because everyone in their everyday life tells little lies and so they fully expect others to do so as well but most people do not expect anyone to tell a real Whopper you know the kind of brazen outlandish lie that is just too absurd to actually be a lie the kind of lie that is so over the top that no one would ever dare utter if it was in fact a lie you know this type of lie according to Hitler will fool the great masses of people even when the LIE is so transparently thin that it couldn't possibly stand up to any kind of critical analysis by anyone actually exercising their brain rather than just blindly accepting the legitimacy of the information they're fed for example the rather fanciful notion that the United States landed men on the moon in the 1960s and early 1970s that's the kind of lie we're talking about here the kind that seems to defy logic and reason and yet has become ingrained in the National psyche to such an extent that it passes for historical fact and anyone who would dare to question that quote historical fact needless to say must be Stark raving mad before proceeding I should probably mention here that until relatively recently if I had heard anyone putting forth the obviously drug ad notion that the moon landings were faked I would have been among the first to offer the said person a ride down to the grip store while conducting Research into various other topics however it has become increasingly apparent that there are almost always a few morsels of Truth in every conspiracy theory no matter how outlandish that theory May initially appear to be and so despite my initial skepticism I was compelled to take a closer look at the Apollo program the first thing that I discovered was that the Soviet Union right up until the time that we allegedly landed the first AP spacecraft on the moon was solidly kicking our butts in the space race it wasn't even close the Soviets launched the first orbiting satellite sent the first animal into space sent the first man into space performed the first Space Walk sent the first three-man crew into space was the first nation to have two spacecraft in orbit simultaneously performed the first unmanned docking maneuver in space and landed the first unmanned Probe on the moon everything the US did prior to actually sending a manace spacecraft to the Moon had already been done by the Soviets who were clearly staying at least a step or two ahead of our top-notch team of imported Nazi scientists the smart money was clearly on the Soviets to make it to the moon first if anyone wants to do so their astronauts had logged five times as many hours of space as had hours and they had a considerable amount of time money and scientific talent and perhaps most of all national pride riding on that goal and yet amazingly enough despite the incredibly long odds the underdog Americans made it first and not only do we make it first but after a full 40 years the Soviets apparently still haven't quite figured out how we did it the question that is clearly begged here is a simple one why is it that the nation that was the leading in the field of space travel not only didn't make it to the moon back in the 60s but still to this day have never made it could it be that they were just really poor losers in truth the entire space program has largely been from its Inception little more than an elaborate cover for the research development and deployment of space-based weaponry and surveillance systems the media never talk about such things of course but government documents make clear that the goals being pursued through space research are largely military in nature for this reason alone it's inconceivable that the Soviets would not have followed the Americans onto the moon for the sake of their own National Defense it's not just the Soviets of course who have never made it to the moon the Chinese haven't either nor of any other industrial nation despite rather obvious fact that every such Nation on the planet now possesses technology that is like light years beyond what was available to NASA scientists in 1960 some readers will recall and young readers might want to cover their eyes and ears here because the information to follow is quite shocking in the 1960s a full complement of home electronics consisted of a fuzzy 13 Channel black and white television set with a rotary tuning dial rabbit ears and no remote such cuttingedge technology as the pocket calculator was still 5 years away from hitting the consumer Market it is perfectly obvious of course that it was not consumer electronics that allegedly sent man to the moon the point here though is that advances in Aerospace technology mirror advances in consumer technology and just as there has been a revolutionary change in entertainment and Communications technology so too has Aerospace technology advanced by light years in the last four decades technologically speaking the NASA scientist working on the Apollo project were working in the Dark Ages so if they could pull it off back then then just about anyone should be able to do it now it would be particularly easy needless to say for America to do it again since we've already done all that research and development and testing why then I wonder have we not return to the moon since the last Apollo flight following the alleged Landings there was a considerable talk of establishing a space station on the moon and a possibly even colonizing Earth's satellite yet all such talk was quickly dropped and soon forgotten and for nearly four decades now not a single human has been to the Moon again the question that immediately comes to mind is why why has no Nation ever duplicated or even attempted to duplicate this miraculous feat why has no other Nation even sent a man's spacecraft to orbit the Moon why has no other Nation ever attempted to send a man spacecraft anywhere Beyond low earth orbit is it because we already learned everything that was to learn about the moon if so it could reasonably be argued that it would be possible to make six random Landings on the surface of the Earth and Come Away with a complete and thorough understanding of this heavenly body are we to believe that the international scientific Community has no questions that could be answered by a return trip to the moon is there no military advantage to be gained by sending men to the moon has man's Keen interest in exploring celestial bodies evident throughout recorded history suddenly gone into remission maybe you say it's just too expensive but the 60s were not a particularly prosperous time in US history and we were engaged in an expensive Cold War throughout the decade as well as an even more expensive Hot War in southeast Asia and yet we still manage to finance no less than seven Mann missions to the Moon using a new disposable multi-section spacecraft each time and yet in the four decades since we are apparently supposed to believe that no other nation has been able to afford to do it even once while we're on the subject of the passage of time exactly how much time do you suppose will have to pass before people in significant numbers begin to question the moon landings NASA recently announced that we will not be returning as previously advertised by the year 2020 that means that we will pass the 50-year anniversary of the first alleged Landing without a sequel will that be enough elapse time that people will begin to wonder what about after a full Century has passed by will our history books still talk about the moon landings and if so what will people make of such stories when they watch old preserved films from the 60s how will they reconcile the laughably Primitive technology of the era with the notion that NASA sent men to the Moon consider this peculiar fact in order to reach the surface of the Moon from the surface of the Earth the Apollo Astronauts would have to have traveled a minimum of 234,000 mil since the last Apollo flight allegedly returned from the Moon in 1972 the furthest that any astronaut from any country has traveled from the surface of the Earth is about 400 miles and very few have even gone that far the primary components of the US Space Program the shuttles the space station and the Hubble telescope operate at an orbiting altitude of about 200 miles NASA gives the distance from the center of the earth to the center of the Moon as 239,000 M since the Earth has a radius of about 4,000 Mi and the moon's radius is roughly 1,000 Mi that leaves a surfac to surface distance of 234,000 mil the total distance traveled during the alleged missions including the Earth and Moon orbits ranged from 622,000 in the 21st century utilizing the most cuttingedge modern technology the best man spaceship the US can build will only reach an altitude of 200 miles but in the 1960s we built a half a dozen of them that flew almost 1200 times further into space and then flew back and they were able to do that despite the fact that the Saturn V rockets that that powered the Apollo Rocket flights weighed in at a poultry 3,000 tons about 00 4% of the size that the principal designer of those very same Saturn Rockets had previously said would be required to actually get to the moon and back primarily due to the unfathomably large load of fuel that would be required to put that into more Earthly terms the US astronauts today travel no further into space than the distance between the San Fernando Valley and Fresno the Apollo Astronauts on the other hand traveled a distance equivalent to circumnavigating the planet around the equator 9 and a half times and they did it with roughly the same amount of fuel that it now takes to make that 200 mile Journey which is why I want NASA to build my next car for me I figur they'll only have to fill the T want should be good for the rest of my life but wait you say NASA has a very solid evidence of the validity of the moonlandings they have for example all of that film footage shot on the moon and being live directly into our television sets I have to mention that transmitting live footage back from the moon was was another rather Innovative use of 1960s technology more than two decades later we would have trouble broadcasting live footage from the deserts of the Middle East but in 1969 we could beam that stuff back from the Moon with ner a technical glitch as it turns out however NASA doesn't actually have all that Moon walking footage anymore truth be told they don't have any of it according to the agency all the tapes were lost back in the late '70s all 700 cartons of them as Reuters reported on August 15 2006 quote the US government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing including astronaut Neil Armstrong's famous one small step for man one giant leap for mankind Armstrong famous moonwalk seen by millions of viewers on July 20 1969 is among Transmissions that NASA has failed to turn up in a year of searching spokesman gray hotala said quote we haven't seen them for quite a while we've been looking for over a year and they haven't turned up in all some 700 boxes of Transmissions from the Apollo lunar missions are missing given that these tapes are allegedly documented on an unprecedented and unduplicated historical event one that is said to be the greatest technological achievement of the 20th Century how in the world would it be possible to lose quote unquote 700 cartons of them would not an Irreplaceable National Treasure such as that be very carefully inventoried and locked away in a secure film Vault and would not copies have been made and would not those copies have also been securely tucked away somewhere come to think of it would not multiple copies have been made for study by the scientific and academic Community had NASA claimed that a few tapes or even a few cartons of tapes had been misplaced then maybe we could give them the benefit of the doubt but perhaps some careless NASA employee for example absent-mindedly taped a Super Bowl over one of them does it really seem at all credible to claim that the entire collection of tapes has gone missing all 700 cartons of them the entire film record of the alleged moon landings some of you are probably thinking that everyone has seen the footage anyway when it was actually broadcast live back in the ' 60s and 70s we're on NASA's website we're on YouTube or numerous television documentaries but you would be mistaken the truth is is that the original footage has never been aired anytime anywhere and now since the tape seemed to have conveniently gone missing it quite obviously never will be the fact that the tapes are missing according to NASA have been for over three decades amazingly enough was not even the most compelling information that the reuter's article had to offer also to be found was an explanation of how the alleged moonwalk tapes that we all know and love were created because NASA's equipment was not compatible with TV technology of the day the original Transmissions had to be displayed on a monitor and reshot by a TV camera for broadcast so what we saw then and what we have seen in all the footage ever released by NASA since then were not in fact live Transmissions to the contrary it was footage shot off a television Monitor and a tiny black and white monitor at that that monitor may have been running live footage I suppose but it seems far more likely that it was running taped footage NASA of course has never explained why but even if it were true that the original broadcast had to be reshot they never subsequently released any of the actual live footage so I guess that's a moot point now with the tapes having gone missing with NASA's admission of how the original broadcasts were created it certainly is not hard to imagine how fake moonlanding footage could have been produced as I have already noted the 1960 were a decidedly low Tech era and NASA appears to have taken a very low Tech approach as moonlanding Skeptics have duly noted if the broadcast tapes are played back at roughly twice their normal running speed the astronauts appear to move about in ways entirely consistent with the way ordinarily humans move right here on the earth here then is the formula for creating moonwalk footage take footage of guys in ridiculous costumes moving around awkwardly right here on our home planet broadcasted over a tiny low resolution television monitor at about half speed then refilm it with a camera focused on that screen the end result will be broadcast ready tapes that in addition to having that all important grainy ghosty rather surreal broadcast from the Moon look also appears to show the astronauts moving about in entirely unnatural ways but not it should be noted too unnatural and doesn't that seem a little odd as well if we're being honest here and for my testosterone producing readers this one is directed to you the average male specimen rather astronaut or plumber never really grows up and stops being a little boy and what guy given the once in lifetime opportunity to spend some time in a reduced gravity environment isn't going to want to see how high we can jump or how far we can jump hitting a golf ball who the hell wants to see that how about tossing a football for a 200 yard touchdown pass or how about the boys dazzling the viewing audience with some otherworldly acrobatics and yes Neil and the guys did exhibit some playfulness at times while allegedly walking on the moon but doesn't it seem a bit odd that they failed to do anything that couldn't be faked simply by changing the tape speed when I attended a college I knew a guy on the volleyball team who had a 32in vertical leap right here on Earth so when I see guys jumping maybe 12 in if that in a 1 six gravity environment with no air resistance I'm not really all that impressed am I the only one by the way who finds it odd that people would move in slow motion on the moon why would a reduced gravitational pull cause everything to move so much more slowly given the fact that they were much lighter on their feet and not subject to Air and wind resistance shouldn't the astronauts have been able to move quicker on the moon than here on Earth was slow motion the only thing NASA could come up with to give the video footage an otherworldly feel needless to say if what has been proposed here is indeed how the moonlanding footage in the public domain was created then highly incriminating original footage which would have looked like any other footage shot here on Earth except for the silly costumes and props would have to have been destroyed because it's not surprising that NASA now takes the position that the original footage has been missing since sometime in the late 197s unfortunately it isn't just the video footage that's missing also allegedly beamed back from the moon was voice data biomedical monitoring data and Telemetry data to monitor the location and mechanical functioning of the spaceship all of that data the ENT enire alleged record of the moon landings was on the 13,000 plus reels that are said to be missing also missing according to NASA and its various subcontractors are the original plans and blueprints for the lunar modules and for the lunar Rovers and for the entire multi-section Saturn 5 Rockets there is therefore no way for the modern scientific Community to determine whether all of that fancy 1960s technology was even close to being functional or whether it was all for show nor is there any way to review the physical records so to speak of the alleged flights we cannot for example check the fuel consumption throughout the flights to determine what kind of magic trick NASA used to get the boys there and back with less than 1% of the required Fuel and we will never it would appear see the original first generation video footage you would have thought that someone at Nasa would have thought to preserve such things no wonder we haven't given them the money to go back to the Moon they'd probably just lose it and that's the end of part one head over to Center forign informed america.com scroll down to the features tab look for moond doggy click and feel free to join us down the road as always thank you for joining me look forward to catching you next time take care hello everyone welcome back we're going to pick up today 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along so jumping right back in wagging the moond doggy part two by David McGowan well you now say what about all those cool moon rocks how did they get those the Moon is you know the only source of moon rocks so doesn't that prove that we went there no a matter matter of fact it do not pro that we went there as odd as that may sound the Moon is not the only source of moon rocks as it turns out authentic moon rocks are available right here on Earth in the form of lunar meteorites because the moon lacks a protective atmosphere you see it gets smacked around quite a bit which is why it's heavily cratered when things smash into it to form those craters lots of bits and pieces of the moon fly off into space some of them end up right here on Earth by far the best place to find them is in Antarctica they are most plentiful and due to the terrain relatively easy to find and well preserved that is why it is curious that Antarctica just happens to be where a team of Apollo scientists led by verer Von Bron ventured off to in the summer of 1967 2 years before Apollo 11 blasted off you would think that with the demanding task of perfecting the hugely complex Saturn V rockets that Von Bron and his cronies at Nasa would have had their hands full but apparently there was something even more important for them to do down in Antarctica NASA has never offered much of an explanation for the furiously timed Expedition some Skeptics have said that it is possible that moon rocks could have been gathered from the Moon with robotic probes but while it isn't being argued here that unmanned craft haven't reached the Moon it seems virtually inconceivable that any unmanned spacecraft could have landed on and then been brought back from the surface of the Moon in the 1960s or 1970s there's no indication that it can even be done today it's been more than three decades since anyone has claimed to do it and that claim by the Soviets is highly suspect what is known for sure sure is that even some of the quote debunking websites have albeit reluctantly acknowledged that meteorite samples gathered from Antarctica are virtually indistinguishable from NASA's collection of moon rocks of course as we have very recently learned that is not true of all of NASA's Moon rocks some of them apparently bear no resemblance at all to lunar meteorites instead they look an awful lot like petrified wood from the Arizona desert such was the case with a quote moonrock that the Dutch national museum has been carefully safeguarding for many years now before discovering in August of 200 n that they were in reality the proud owners of the most overinsurance and figured the Dutch wouldn't know the difference anyway or maybe Washington was a little peeved over the fact that the Dutch newspapers reportedly called NASA's Bluff at the time of the first alleged moonlanding and you can see photos of these things guys over on the website how to recommend go checking that out this is not to suggest of course that all of the moon rocks passed out by NASA and the state department are obvious fakes most presumably are of lunar origin but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were gathered by American astronauts walking on the surface of the Moon they could have just as easily come to Earth as meteorites it is also possible that they are of other worldly origin but not from the moon at all such as meteorites from other sources that have been collected here on Earth the only way to know for sure what NASA's Moon rocks are of course would be to compare them to a quote control rock that is known to be from the Moon the problem alas as the only known source for authenticated moon rocks is NASA the very same folks who are known occasionally to hand out chunks of petrified wood the other problem it turns out is that most of the moon rocks are missing does anyone see a pattern developing here since the discovery of the fake moonrock in the Dutch Museum quote debunkers have claimed that the fact that no other moon rocks have been declared fake proves that the Dutch case is an isolated one quote after that announcement the argument wouldn't every other country in possession of a moonrock have rushed to have them authenticated and since no other country has made a similar announcement doesn't that prove that the moon rocks are real at first glance that would appear to be a valid argument the problem however is that the vast majority of those countries can't test their quote moon rocks because shockingly enough no one knows where they are as the Associated Press reported on September 13th 2009 quote nearly 270 rocks scooped up by us astronauts were given to foreign countries by the administration of 135 rocks from the Apollo 17 Mission given away to Nations or their leaders only about 25 have been located by collectspace.com a website for space history Buffs that is long attempted to compile a list the outlook for tracking the estimated 134 Apollo 11 Rocks is even Bleaker the locations of fewer than a dozen are known it appears then that having a control rock really wouldn't be much of a help at all since nearly 90% of the alleged moon rocks that we would want to test don't seem to be around anymore but I've also heard you now say that photos have been taken of the equipment left behind by the Apollo Astronauts on the surface of the Moon like The Descent stages of the lunar modules how do you account for that it's certainly true that there have been numerous claims over the years that various satellites or unmanned space probes or space telescopes were going to capture images that would definitely prove that man walked on the moon thus settling the controversy once and for all and in recent years the debunkers have openly gloated whenever such an announcement has been made boldly proclaiming that all the quote hes believe will soon be exposed as the ignorant buffoons that they are despite all the promises however no such images have ever been produced a fact that the debunkers seem to conveniently Overlook while forever rushing to announce that the hoax theories are about to be discredited for at least two decades now since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope we have been promised dazzling images of the lunar modules sitting on the surface of the Moon the Hubble technology needless to say never managed to deliver more recently in 2002 the European Southern observatory's very large telescope whose inventor apparently coined the name while watching Sesame Street was also supposed to deliver the promised images and 7 years later the fabled images have yet to materialize in March of 2005 space.com boldly announced that quote a European spacecraft now orbiting the moon could turn out to be a time machine of sorts as it photographs old Landing sites of Soviet robotic probes and the areas where American Apollo Crews sat down and explored new imagery of old Apollo touchdown spots from the smart one probe might put to rest conspiratorial thoughts that us astronauts didn't go the distance and scuff up the lunar landscape NASA carried out six piloted Landings on the moon in that time period 1969 through 1972 Fringe theorists have said that NASA never really went to the moon I'm guessing that most quote Fringe theorists will continue to Harbor quote conspiratorial thoughts for as long as pompous websites like space.com continue making arrogant proclamations such as that and then not following them up with so much as a single image in well over 4 years Who Knew by the way that the European Space Agency had the technology and the budget to send a spacecraft to orbit the Moon who knew that the Europeans even had a space agency I wonder given that they obviously have the technology to send spacecraft to the Moon why haven't they sent any man's missions there I mean I would think that it should be fairly easy to send some guys to at least orbit the Moon right I mean all they have to do is add a couple of seats to the spacecraft design that they already have they should be ready to go here's another thing that I sometimes wonder about why is it that in the 1960s we possessed the advanced technology required to actually land men on the moon but in the 21st century we don't even have the technology required to get an unmanned aircraft close enough to the Moon to take usable photographs or could it be that there's just nothing there to photograph just this year NASA itself boldly announced that its lunar reconnaissance Orbiter or lro has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites the picture showed the Apollo missions lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon surface As Long Shadows from low Sun angle make the modules locations evident the El Rock team anxiously awaited each image said El Rock principal investigator Mark Robinson of Arizona State University we were very interested in getting our first Peak at the lunar module descent stages just for the thrill and to see how well the cameras had come into Focus indeed the images are fantastic and so is the focus sounds promising doesn't it the images however hardly live up to the billing they are in fact completely worthless all they depict are tiny white dots of the lunar surface that could be just about anything that would be barely visible at all without those handy quote Long Shadows from the low Sun angle and the weird thing is about those Shadows is that in the very same NASA article it says that quote because the sun was so low to the Horizon when the images were made even subtle variations in topography create Long Shadows unquote and yet while it's perfectly obvious that there are more than just quote subtle variations in the lunar topography and the images and you can see the images on his website the alleged lunar modules are the only things casting The Long Shadows even if we give NASA every benefit of the doubt and assume that the images have not been amateurishly photoshopped and that the indiscernable white dots are indeed something of man-made origin the most likely culprit would be those Soviet robotic probes mentioned by space.com which presumably did land on the moon a number of those probes which were part of the Apollo era lunar program were very similar in size and shape to the lunar modules certainly enough so that images of much higher resolution would be required to make a definitive judgment actually after studying the image above and you have to see this image one of the alleged Luna probes I'm going to have to say that the Soviets were lying their asses off almost as much as NASA was there's no way I'm going to buy into the notion that the Soviets sent a free form abstract sculpture which appears to have been constructed by Fred Sanford and Granny clampet on a 234,000 m Journey from Earth to the Moon careful study of the central area of the photo however does reveal why the spacecraft were known as probes according to NASA Japan and India have also sent unmanned orbiting spacecraft to the Moon in recent years as has China as with the esa and NASA's orbiters they too have failed to return any images of Earthly artifacts left behind on the surface of the Moon if the hoax debunking websites are to be believed by the way the reason that no one has returned to the Moon in 37 years is because we pretty much already tapped that Celestial body for all the information it had to offer there's really you see nothing much left to see there a quote debunking article posted by abcnews.com for example quoted Val German the president of the Central Missouri astronomical Association is saying quote there's no reason to go back quite frankly the Moon is a giant parking lot there's just not much there I wonder why it is then that just about everyone wants to send unmanned probes there or to train enormously powerful telescopes on the moon's surface what could they possibly learn about the quote parking lot from those distances that our astronauts didn't already discover by actually being there some True Believers also claim that what was dub the lunar laser ranging experiment also proves that we really went to the moon as The Story Goes the astronauts on Apollo 11 Apollo 14 and Apollo 15 all allegedly left small laser targets sitting on the lunar terrain one of them can be seen in the official NASA photograph reproduced below so that scientists back home could then bounce lasers off the targets to precisely gauge the distance from the Earth to the Moon according to the debunkers the fact that observatories to this day bounce lasers off the alleged Target proves that the Apollo Mission succeeded it is perfectly obvious though that the targets if there could have been placed robotically most likely by the Soviets it is also possible that there are no laser Targets on the moon in December 1966 National Geographic reported that scientists at MIT had been achieving essentially the same result for four years by bouncing a laser off the surface of the Moon the New York Times added that the Soviets had been doing the same thing since at least 1963 there was much about the Apollo flights that was truly miraculous but arguably the greatest technological achievement was the design of the lunar modules has anyone by the way ever really taken a good look at one of those Contraptions I mean a detailed up close look I'm guessing the vast majority of people have not but luckily we can quickly remedy that situation CU I happen to have a really good highresolution image that comes directly from the good people at Nasa while what is depicted in the images May initially appear to the untrained eye to be some kind of mockup that someone cobbled together in their backyard to make fun of NASA I could assure you that is actually an extremely high Tech man spacecraft capable of landing on the surface of the Moon and Incredibly enough it was also capable of blasting off from the Moon and flying 69 Mi back up into the lunar orbit though not immediately apparent is actually a two-stage craft the lower half the part that looks like a tubular aluminum framework covered with myar and old Christmas wrapping paper being The Descent stage in the upper half the part that looks as though it was cobbled together from old air conditioning duct work is primarily held together as can be seen in a closeup with zippers and gold tape being the ascent stage the other half of course is the more sophisticated portion being capable of lifting off and flying with enough power to break free of the moon's gravity and reach lunar orbit it also of course possess sophisticated enough navigational capabilities for it to locate literally out of the middle of freaking nowhere the Command Module that it had to dock with in order to get the astronauts safely back to Earth it also had to catch that Command Module which was orbiting the moon at a leisurely 4,000 mph but we'll get to all that a little later I think we can all agree for now that such a Sleek stylish well-designed craft would have no problem flying with that kind of Power Precision and stability there is one thing that appears to be a problem though how did they get everything on board these modules that they were going to need to successfully complete their missions according to NASA the modules were excluding the landing pads were only about 12 ft in diameter that is obviously not a whole lot of space to work with so let's try to think of everything that we would need if we were astronauts venturing off on a little Journey To The Moon first of all of course we would have to account for the space taken up by the various components of the ship itself there is the framework and the uh let's call it the fuselage of The Craft uh we will need a lot of VAR sophisticated navigation and guidance Communications equipment all of which took up a whole lot more space back in the 60s than it would today and then needless to say there is the power supply or rather multiple power supplies for The Descent stage there is the reverse thrust rocket that allegedly allowed the craft to make soft landing on the moon and then for the ascent stage there is a more powerful rocket to propel the random bundle of sheet metal into lunar orbit there are also additional Rockets to allegedly stabilize the vessel in Flight the random clusters of what look like bicycle horns next up is the massive amount of fuel that would be required to power all of those rockets for both the ascent and descent stages of the mission the ascent stage in particular is going to be a bit of a fuel hog as ascending 69 Mi and Breaking Free of the moon's gravity is a formidable challenge to say the least though it might only have 1 16 the gravitational pool of the earth keep in mind that it's still a force strong enough to create the tides here on Earth 234,000 Mi away I'm not a rocket scientist by the way so I'm sure that there are quite a few components that I'm leaving off my lunar module but that's okay because our spaceship is already feeling really cramped just with the stuff listed so far and we're just getting started next we'll have to include everything required to keep ourselves alive and well we aren't going to be there very long of course and space is obviously limited but we will still require some basic amenities we will after all have to have somewhere to sleep in the ship won't we or will we just unfold Cs on the lunar surface will also require sanitation septic system of some kind or did those missions bring about another first that NASA has been reluctant to brag about anyway getting back to our packing list in addition to a sanitation system it is imperative that we bring along an adequate supply of food water and oxygen and not just enough to last for the planned duration of our visit but enough to supply a small safety cushion should anything go wrong because from what I've heard running out of food water and oxygen while on the moon can really mess up an otherwise perfectly good trip the oxygen is especially important so we're going to need a really good reliable system to deliver that oxygen and to you know recharge the oxygen tanks in our spacit so we can walk around on the moon and jump like 8 or n in high like the Apollo guys did and a backup oxygen system probably wouldn't be a bad idea we're also going to need to install a top-of-the-line heating and cooling system probably several of them actually because the quote weather on the moon so to speak can be a bit unpleasant according to the experts over at Nasa daytime highs average of Bal me 260° f but it cools off quite a bit at night dropping to an average ofus 280 fah so if you're looking for anything between those two extremes you really won't find it on the moon it's pretty much one or the other if you're in the sun you're going to be boiled alive and if you're out of the sun you're going to be flash frozen I'm not at all sure how the air conditioning system is going to work come to think of it since air conditioning requires a steady supply of and please stop me if I'm stating the obvious here air and the moon really doesn't have a lot of that it would help of course if our spacecraft was heavily insulated in some manner but that doesn't appear to be the case so we'll need a really good heating and cooling system and plenty of freeon whatever it is that we'll need to keep it running and so now add up all of the following to our already crowded spacecraft ourselves a minimal amount of room to sleep and otherwise take care of basic necessities of life some type of plumbing and sewage system really good heating and cooling system a considerable food supply water oxygen and we're still not done packing for our trip now we have to add all the equipment that will be required to maintain the ship and complete our planned missions first of all we're going to definitely need to pack an exhaustive supply of spare parts and wide variety of tools that's an absolute must there are lots of things that can go wrong with our spaceship and the only thing harder than finding a good mechanic here on Earth is finding one on the moon and then of course we'll have to bring all the fancy testing equipment that we'll use to pretend to conduct experiments some of it is quite bulky so we'll need to set aside some storage space for all of that and we're going to need some additional storage to bring back all those petrified wood samples but we should have room for that after we jettison most of the fake testing equipment our spaceship is now so ridiculously over loaded that we may have had to add a roof rack and we still aren't even quite done yet we still have a couple more items to pack and we probably should have gotten them on sooner because they're going to require a lot of space since this is one of the later Apollo flights you see and we also have to pack a dune buggy otherwise known as a lunar rover and the pictures down here guys and The Rovers according to NASA are a full 10 ft long just 2 ft less than the diameter of our craft but not to worry according to NASA The Rovers pictured below folded up to the size of a large suitcase when released they would just sort of magically fold and snap into place ready to roam the lunar terrain to be perfectly honest I'm not really sure why we have to pack the damn Rover there is no real compelling reason to take it to the moon except for the fact that they make for good TV and that seems to be of Paramount importance and so as can be seen below it should easily fit into our spaceship one last thing we're going to need is a whole lot of batteries lots and lots of batteries that's going to be the only way to power the ship while we're on the moon and we'll definitely need to run the communication systems and the oxygen supply system and the heating and cooling systems and the cabin lights and the TV cameras and transmitters and all the testing equipment and our space suits and that damn Rover and we won't be able to recharge any of the various batteries so we're going to need like a lot of backups especially the really big batteries that run the ship we may need a separate ship just to carry all the batteries that we're going to need by the way I can't possibly be the only one who's disappointed that we never followed up on that breakthrough folding vehicle technology if we had folding Moon buggies back in the early '70s then how far behind could folding automobiles have been had we chosen to stay the course had NASA's pioneering Vision been followed up we could all be folding up our cars and tucking them away under our office desks but as with all the Apollo technology it existed only in that specific period of time and has now sadly been lost to the ages NASA has done something very odd by the way with the lunar module that it has on display for Museum visitors to Marvel at it has stapped it with miniature astronauts wearing miniature space suits the module may be scaled slightly larger than the real modules that allegedly landed on the moon I wonder why they would do that I'm pretty sure that buzz and NE were of normal stature so the only reason that I could think that they would use miniature astronauts would be to portray the modules as larger than what they actually were and in better condition too did they pick up the ones they sent to the moon at a used car lot before moving on I need to emphasize here just how sophisticated the lunar modules actually were these remarkable spacecraft and I understandably get a little choked up here talking about this because I'm just so damn proud of our team of Nazi scientists managed to make six perfect takeoffs from the surface of the Moon and understand here people that they did that amazing ly enough with completely untested technology you can't duplicate the conditions on the moon here at home you see or even provide a rough approximation and since no one had ever been to the Moon they didn't exactly know what to replicate anyway so this part of the mission was pretty much a crapshoot conditions on the moon are to say the least a bit different than here on Earth the gravitational pull is only about 1 six of what it is here and then there is that whole lack of atmosphere thing and the decidedly unearthly temperatures and then of course there are high levels of space radiation I'm quite sure that we had the best Minds available working on the Apollo project but none of them could have accurately predicted and compensated for how all those unearthly conditions would combine to affect the flight potential of the lunar modules so the ability of the modules to actually Blast Off from the Moon and fly was at best a theoretical concept it is also important to remember that unlike the initial Blast Off from Earth seen above which involve the collective efforts of thousands of people and the use of all types of peripheral equipment the astronauts taking off from the Moon only had themselves and a strange vessel that looked like it had been salvaged from the set of lost and space what would you be thinking by the way if you suddenly found yourself on the surface of the Moon with what looked like a cheap movie prop as your only way home would you feel comfortable hanging around for a few days doing experiments confident that when the time came the untested contraption behind you would actually get you back home from the moon or with the words bad career choice be running through your head but as it turns out America kicked ass back then and those lunar modules performed like Champions every single time they didn't even need modifications despite the completely foreign environment they work perfectly the first time every time thereafter on Earth it took many long years of trial and error many failed test flights many unfortunate accidents and many many trips back to the drawing board before we could safely and reliably launch men into low earth orbit but on the moon we nailed that the very first time today of course we can't even launch a space shuttle from right here on the planet without occasionally blowing one up even though we have lowered our sights considerably after all sitting spacecraft into low earth orbit is considerably easier than sending spacecraft all the way to the Fring moon in back it would appear then that we can draw the following conclusion although technology has advanced immeasurably since the first Apollo moon landing and we have significantly downgraded our goals in space we can't come close to matching the Kick-Ass safety record we had in the Apollo days the thing is that back in the frontier days we didn't need all that fancy technology and book learning to send buzz and the boys to the moon and back but then back then we had that American can do Spirit we just cowboyed up and mcgyver those spaceships to the Moon all we needed was an old Volkswagen engine some duct tape and a roll of bailing wire throw a little toilet paper and Tang on board and you're good to go how about the speed with which we cranked out those Apollo spacecraft once we figured out how to make them we were stamping them out like Coke cans we fired off seven of them in just under 3 and 1/2 years or about one every 6 months given the extreme complexity of those vessels and the fact that every component had to perform flawlessly under largely unknown conditions that's a pretty impressive production schedule America I think it's safe to say totally rocked back then and that's the end of part two of wagging the moon doggy by David McGowan follow the links over in the blog post or head over to Center for informed america.com and head down to the Moon doggy Tab and check it out go support Dave and his family with a purchase of a book or a donation and thank you for joining me catch you next time hello everyone welcome back today we're going to pick up in wagging the moond doggy with part three by David mcgallen head over to Center for informed am.com and scroll down to the features Tab and once again we're on part three feel free to to pick up and join us let's Jump Right In if the moon landings were fake then one question that naturally arises is why would the government go to such extreme links to mount such an elaborate hoax the most obvious answer and the one most frequently cited by Skeptics is to reclaim a sense of national pride that have been Stripped Away by America's having played Follow the Leader with the Soviets for an entire decade while this undoubtedly played a large role there are other factors as well factors that haven't been as fully explored but before we look at those we must first deal with the question of whether would have even been possible to pull off such an enormous hoax could so many people have really been duped into believing such an outrageous lie if that in fact was what it was to answer that question we have to keep in mind that we're talking about the summer of 1969 here those old enough to have been there will recall that they along with the vast majority of politically active people in the country spent that particular period of time primarily engaged in tripping on some really good asset most likely from the lab of Mr Oley in truth not everyone was fooled by the alleged moon landings though it is rarely discussed these days a significant number of people gave NASA's Television Productions a thumbs down as Wired Magazine has reported quote when night newspapers pulled 1,721 us residents one year after the first moon landing had found that more than 30% of the respondents were suspicious of NASA's trips to the Moon given that overall trust in government was considerably higher in those pre-water gate days the fact that nearly a third of Americans doubted what they were quote witnessing through their television sets is rather remarkable when Fox ran a special on the moonlanding some years back back and reported that one in five Americans had doubts about the Apollo missions various quote debunking websites cried foul and claimed that the actual percentage was much lower bad astronomy.com for example claims that the actual figure is about 6% and that roughly that many people will agree quote with almost any question that is asked of them hence there are only a relative handful of cooks who don't believe that we've ever been to the Moon all of those websites fail to mention of course that among the people who experienced the events as they were occurring nearly one in three had doubts number considerably higher than the number that F used and needless to say the debunkers also failed to mention that one in four Young Americans a number also higher than the figure Fox used have doubts about the moon landings returning then to the question of why such a ruse would be perpetrated we must transport ourselves back to the year 1969 Richard Nixon has just been inaugurated as our brand new president and his Ascension to the throne is in part due to his promises to the American people that he will disengage from the increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam Patrick dick has a bit of a problem on his hands in that he has absolutely no intention of ending that war in fact he would really like to escalate the conflict as much as possible but to do so he needs to set up a diversion some means of stoking the Patriotic fervor of the American people so that they will blindly rally behind him in short he needs to Wag the Dog this has of course traditionally been done by embarking on some short-term low-risk military Endeavor the problem for dick however is that a military mission is exactly what he is trying to divert attention away from what then is a beleaguered president to do why send Neil and Buzz to the Moon of course instead of wagging the dog it's time to try something new wagging the moon doggy Nixon's actions from the very moment he takes office bely his campaign pledges to the American people in May of 1969 with Nixon just a few months into his term the Press Begins publicizing the illegal B-52 carpet bombing of Cambodia engineered by irrepressible war criminal Henry Kissinger by June Nixon is scrambling to announce what his dub the quote Vietnamization of the war which comes with a concomittant withdrawal of US troops in truth however only 25,000 of the 540,000 US troops then deployed will be brought home this ruse is therefore transparently thin and it will buy the president little time to make matters worse on July 14th Francis W Meers granted conscientious objector status on the basis of a petition his attorney has filed which explicitly details the training and instruction he has just received in assassination and torture techniques in conjunction with his assignment in The cia's Phoenix Program with these documents entering the public domain the full horrors of the war are beginning to emerge just in time to save the day however Apollo 11 blasts off on July 16th on its allegedly historic Mission and with the entire nation enthralled 4 days later the eagle purportedly makes its landing on the pristine lunar surface Vietnam is temporarily forgotten as America swells with patriotic Pride for having beaten the evil empire to the Moon there's little time to worry about the brutality of War when Neil is taking that quote one giant leap for mankind the honeymoon is shortlived however for Just 4 months later in November of 1969 Seymour hirs publishes a story about the massacre of 504 civilians in the village of my li bringing home to America the full savagery of the war in Southeast Asia it's time then for another Moon launch and Apollo 12 dutifully lifts off on November 14th making another picture perfect lunar Landing before returning on November 24th the country is once again entranced by the exploits ofer America's new breed of hero and suddenly every kid in the country wants to grow up to be an astronaut all is well again until March of 1970 at which time a us-backed coup deposes Prince Sanuk in Cambodia and Lon null is handpicked by the CIA to replace him Cambodia then immediately jumps in the frey by committing troops to the US war effort the war is further escalated the next month when Nixon authorizes an invasion of Cambodia by us and arvn ground forces another move engineered by Henry Kissinger Nixon has been in office just over a year and the war far from Winding down has now expanded into Cambodia both in the air and on the ground meanwhile it's time for yet another Moon launch but this one is not going to be just any Moon launch this one you see is going to introduce the element of danger with the first two having gone off without a hitch the American people known for having notoriously short attention spans are already adopting a been there done that attitude the problem in a nutshell is that it just looks a little too damn easy in order to regain the attention of the American people it has to be impressed upon on them that our brave astronauts are placing themselves in grave danger and so it is that on April 11th 1970 Apollo 13 blasts off with Tom Hanks and a couple of somewhat lesser known actors on board but unlike the first two missions this Apollo spacecraft fails to reach the moon and instead drifts about for the next 6 days with the crew in Mortal danger of being forever Lost in Space now that gets our attention so much so that when three Vietnam Vets hold a multi-city press conference in New York San Francisco and Rome on April 14th attempting to public publicize the ongoing Phoenix Program in which they have participated and have firsthand knowledge nobody can really be bothered with paying much attention it's hard to be too concerned with the fate of Vietnamese villagers you see when Tom and the boys are clearly in trouble awaiting news of the fate of the Apollo 13 crew we all have our eyes glued to the TVs as though we're watching postmortem coverage of Michael Jackson when our heroes somehow make it back alive defying seemingly impossible odds we're all so damn proud of them that we decide to award Tom another Oscar and all is well for the remainder of the year I really have to repeat here by the way that in the late 1960s and early 1970s America really did Rock I mean how about the Apollo's safety record seven manned moon launches with seven perfect takeoffs Tom and the boys obviously never did make it to the moon but the other six crew sure as hell did and all six set those lunar modules down like the consummate professionals that they were and all six used that untested technology to successfully Blast Off from the Moon and attain lunar orbit and then all six successfully docked with the orbiting Command Module and all seven of those command modules even Apollo 13's returned intact with their Crews happy and healthy that was just an awesome time to be an American and especially to be an American astronaut well except for three guys Virgil Gus gome Ed White and Roger chaffy who were burned alive during a test procedure in the Command Module of what was to be Apollo 1 but they were troublemakers anyway who probably wouldn't have wanted to go along with the moonlanding Fable and then there was that Thomas Baron guy who was a safety inspector for NASA and who delivered highly critical testimony and a 1500 page report to Congress only to them be killed a week later that report seems to have been sucked into the same black hole that swallowed up all the other Apollo evidence anyway returning now to our timeline the dawn of 1971 brings the trial of Lieutenant William C on charges that he personally ordered and oversaw the mass murder of the inhabitants of the village of my li and on January 31st Apollo 14 is launched and once again makes a Flawless lunar landing on February 9th the Apollo team returns just a few weeks before c is convicted of murder he served an absurdly short sentence under house arrest and none of his superiors were ever held accountable a few months after that the New York Times begins publication of the infamous Pentagon Papers revealing American policy in Vietnam to be a complex Web of Lies publication is quickly stopped by the justice department but resumes once again as June turns to July this is quickly followed on July 26th by the launch of Apollo 15 4 days later yet another Flawless lunar Landing clearly demonstrates that America is the most badass Nation on Earth but moonwalking has become a bit of a boore for the American people so a new element is introduced and from now on our beloved astronauts will roam the lunar surface in dune buggies the lunar modules haven't gotten any bigger but now they can transport vehicles to the Moon cool back on Earth the astronauts return on August 7th and the rest of the year passes uneventfully on March 30 1972 North Vietnamese troops mount a massive offensive across the DMZ into kangre Province revealing as lies the ppus statement by numerous Washington hacks that Victory is close at hand Nixon and Company respond to the offensive with deep penetration bombing of North Vietnam and for good measure the illegal mining of North Vietnam's ports they also respond by launching on April 16th another rocket and another dune buggy to the moon on April 27th the crew of Apollo 16 once again returned to a hero's welcome by the end of the year as ceasefire is finally looming on the horizon beginning in October Kissinger and David Bruce a member of the Infamous melan family are secretly negotiating peace terms with leuko of North Vietnam in December however those talks break down but not before Apollo 17 is launched on December 7th in a most spectacular way it's the first night launch of a Saturn V rocket with the latest Apollo Mission still a few days away from returning the talks cease and Dick and Henry unleash a final ruthless carpet bombing campaign against North Vietnam snuffing out countless thousands of Civilian lives meanwhile America warmly greets its returning astronaut just 5 Weeks Later the talks having resumed a peace agreement is announced within a few days a ceasefire is in effect thereby officially ending America's involvement in Southeast Asia though the CIA will remain to continue directing the war by proxy America's men and women in uniform come home and the Apollo program despite several additional missions having been planned and discussed and despite the additional funding that should have been available with the war drawing to a close will never be heard from again in addition to restoring national pride and providing a diversion from The Savage colonial war being waged in Southeast Asia the Apollo program undoubtedly served another function as well covert funding of that war effort needless to say faking moon landings is less expensive than actually making moon landings and a whole lot of money was funnel NASA's way during the Vietnam years to accomplish the latter it stands to reason that a considerable amount of that money could well have been diverted into covert operations being conducted in Vietnam Cambodia and LA in addition a portion of of the Apollo funding likely financed the early stages of the militarization of space there's no shortage of moon Hox debunking sites out there on the Wild and willly worldwide web the majority of them are not particularly well written or argued and yet they tend to be rather smug and self- congratulatory most of them tend to stick to debunking the same facts and they use the same arguments to do so one thing they like to talk a lot about is the Van Allen radiation belts the moon hoax sites talk a lot about them as well the hoaxers will tell you that man cannot pass through the belts without a considerable amount of RIS radiation protection protection that could not have been provided in the 1960s through any known technology and the debunkers claimed that the Apollo Astronauts would have passed right through the belts quickly enough that given the levels of radiation no harm would have come to them the hookers say debunkers are just being girly men as it turns out both sides are wrong the debunkers shockingly enough are completely full of and the hookers have actually understated the problem by focusing exclusively on the belts we know this because NASA itself whom the debunkers like to treat as virtually unimpeachable Source on all things Apollo except apparently when the agency posts an article that implicitly acknowledges that we haven't actually been to the moon has told us that it is so they have told us that in order to leave low earth orbit on any future space flights our astronauts would need to be protected throughout the entirety of the flight as well as and once again this comes directly from NASA while working on the surface of the Moon on June 24 2005 NASA made this rather remarkable admission quote NASA's vision for space exploration calls for a return to the Moon as preparation for even longer Journeys to Mars and Beyond but there's a potential showstopper radiation space beyond low earth orbit is a wash with intense radiation from the Sun and deep Galactic sources such as supernovas back in the 1960s of course we didn't let a little thing like space radiation get in the way of us beating the ruskies to the moon but now I guess being that we're more cultured and sophisticated we want to do it the right way so we need to come up with a way of shielding our spaceships and our temporary moon bases and figuring out how to do that according to NASA could be a real quote showstopper as NASA notes the most common way to deal with radiation is simply to physically block it as the thick concrete around a nuclear reactor does but making spaceships from concrete is not an option lead which is considerably denser than concrete is actually the preferred material to use for radiation shielding but lead also isn't very popular with spaceship designers in fact word on the street is that one of the main reasons the Soviets never made it to the moon was because their scientists calculated that four feet of lead shielding would be required to protect their astronauts and those same scientists apparently felt that spaceship ships wouldn't fly all that well when clad with 4et of lead now NASA is thinking outside the box and contemplating using force fields to repel the radiation a seemingly ridiculous idea that whether workable in the future or not certainly wasn't available to NASA in the 1960s below is NASA's own artist rendering of a proposed force field radiation Shield that would allow astronauts to work safely on the moon as you may have noticed in the earlier photos of lunar modules our guys didn't bring anything like that with them on their earlier missions to the moon and you might have also noticed that the modules have any type of physical shielding he's got the pictures up here guys you have to check it out on the website how then did they do it my guess is that the answer lies in that gold foil wrap while it may look like an amateurish attempt to make the modules appear more high tech I have a hunch that what we're looking at is another example of that lost 1960s technology this time in the form of a highly Advanced super poer that provided maximum radiation shielding while adding virtually no weight so all we have to do is track down a few leftover rolls of that stuff and we should be well on our way to sending guys back to the Moon Moon according to Charles berer a NASA scientist currently working on the force field concept quote using electric fields to repel radiation was one of the first ideas back in the 1950s when scientists started to look at the problem of protecting astronauts from radiation they quickly dropped the idea though because it seemed like the high voltages needed and the awkward designs that they thought would be necessary would make such an electric Shield impractical what a real journalist would have asked here of course is quote after dropping the electric Shield concept what exactly did they decide to use to get our astronauts safely to the moon and back on the Apollo missions and why can't we do the same thing now rather than Reinventing the wheel don't you guys have some of that gold foil in a closet somewhere no one in the American Media of course bothered to ask such painfully obvious questions the 2005 report from NASA ends as follows quote but who knows perhaps one day astronauts on the moon will work safely unquote yes and While We're Dreaming The Impossible Dream let's add a few more things to our wish list as well like perhaps one day we'll be able to listen to music on eight track tape players and talk to people on rotary dial phones and carry portable transistor radios and use cameras that shoot pictures on special film that develops right before our eyes only time will tell I suppose the Van Allen belts by the way trap most Earthbound radiation thus making it safe for us Mortals down here on the surface of planet Earth as well as for astronauts in low earth orbit the belts extend from 1, to 25,000 Mi above the surface of the Earth the danger is in sending men through and Beyond the belts which apart from the Apollo missions has never been attempted well actually there was that one time but I think we all remember how badly that turned out in case anyone is forgotten the astronauts returned to a world dominated by extremely poor acting Apes speaking with British accents and a shirtless Charlton hon and I don't think anyone wants to see that happen again the 2005 report was not the first time that NASA had openly discussed the high levels of radiation that existed beyond the van Ellen belts in February 2001 the space agency posted a debunking article that argued that the rocks allegedly brought back from the moon were so distinctive in nature that they proved definitively that man had gone to the moon the problem though with maintaining a lie of the magnitude of the moonlanding LIE is that there is always the danger in that defending one part of the LIE another part will be exposed such was the case with NASA's ill conceived the Great Moon Hox Post in which it was acknowledged that what are referred to as cosmic rays have a tendency to quote constantly bombard the moon and they leave their fingerprints on moon rocks NASA scientist David McKay explained that quote there are Isotopes in moon rocks Isotopes we don't normally find on Earth that were created by nuclear reactions with the highest energy cosmic rays the article went on to explain how quote Earth is spared from such radiation by our protective atmosphere and magnetosphere even if scientists wanted to make something like a moon rock by say bombarding an earth rock with high energy Atomic nuclei they couldn't Earth's most powerful particle accelerators can't energize particles to match the most potent cosmic rays which are themselves accelerated in Supernova blast waves and in the vient cores of galaxies so one of the reasons that we know that the moon rocks are real UC is because they were blasted with ridiculously high levels of radiation while sitting on the surface of the Moon and our astronauts one would assume would have been blasted with the very same ridiculously high levels of radiation but since this was NASA's attempt at a debunking article they apparently would prefer that you don't spend too much time analyzing what they have to say how exactly are we to reconcile NASA's current position on Space radiation with the same agency simultaneous claim that we've already sent men to the Moon there are a few different possibilities that come to mind the first of which is that in the late 1960s and early 1970s we simply threw caution into the wind and sent our boys off to the Moon with no protection whatsoever from space radiation if that were true however then the question that would naturally be raised is why not just do it again after all all of our moon Walkers made it home safe and sound and most have lived long healthy cancer-free lives so while the fuss over space radiation NASA could I suppose take the position that space radiation is a recent problem perhaps in the 60s and 70s space was relatively free of radiation allowing unshielded Apollo Rockets to cruise about without a care in the world it was just a different solar system back in those days as aging hippies like to say if you remember the solar system of the 60s you weren't really flying around in it if it proves to be the case that this space radiation quote showstopper is a new development then I suppose that the only explanation that we are left with is that we did indeed have the technology to Shield our astronauts from radiation back in the' 60s but at some time during the last four decades that technology was simply lost what probably happened was an overzealous night custodian threw the data away the conversation around the NASA water cooler the next day probably went something like this has anyone seen the folder I left on my desk last night it contained the only copy of the secret formula that I devised for building a weightless space radiation Shield it could be 40 years or more before someone else can duplicate it my ass is so fired and that's the end of wagging the moon doggy part three once again head over to to Center for informed am.com and follow the feature tab down to moond doggy and feel free to follow along as we continue in this interesting and entertaining read thanks again for joining me look forward to catching you next time take care hello everyone welcome back I hope you're enjoying this reading of wagging the moond doggy by Dave mcgallen but today we're going to pick up in part four which is a part that I really like because it's very heavily centered on photography and it's a topic that I have a background and interest in Dave has a strong background in photography uh which is evident in his breakdown and Analysis of this particular issue which he really moves through quickly and he provides tons of examples Straight From the Source so let's Jump Right In wagging the moon doggy part four by David McGowan once on the moon on the lunar surface in the dress in the life support system you couldn't see the camera they couldn't bend their head that far down to see the scale they had no viewfinder they had to aim by moving their body Yan lunber chief designer of the Hassel black cameras allegedly used by the Apollo astronauts they had to effectively guess where they were pointing the camera hjp Arnold the codec executive who supplied the ectom film for the missions the issue that most of the Moon Hox and debunking sites spend the most time on by far is the photographic anomalies and that I suppose is to be expected with the original video tapes Telemetry tapes and blueprints all having conveniently disappeared and with most of the moon rocks missing and their legitimacy being unverifiable there isn't much else in the way of physical evidence to examine Skeptics have identified a number number of problems with NASA's official photographs of the alleged moon landings including Flags appearing to wave despite the lack of atmosphere non-parallel Shadows suggesting multiple light sources objects in the shadows that are clearly visible when they shouldn't be again indicating multiple light sources the complete lack of stars in the lunar Sky identical backgrounds and photos that NASA claim were shot at different locations and inconsistency with the Crosshair reference marks we'll look at each of these in some detail well we'll actually look at most of them in some detail because as it turns out and I know that this will come as a huge disappointment to all the debunkers but I don't really give a whether the flag is waving or not many of the debunking websites devote an inordinate amount of time to the issue as though it were the primary plank on which the quote conspiracy theories rested they do this because the videos and photos are ambiguous and open to interpretation and the debunkers realize that people are going to see in them what they want to see the truth though is that it doesn't matter in the least whether the flag is waving that is just one tiny drop of potential evidence in an overflowing bucket some of the other problems with the images are considerably less ambiguous but before we even get to those we must first discuss the fact that the very existence of the photographs is a technical impossibility simply stated it would not have been possible to capture any of the images allegedly shot on the moon in the manner that NASA says they were captured back in the day you see and younger readers May again want to cover their eyes cameras weren't all that smart so everything had to be done manually the photographer had to manually focus each shot by peering through the viewfinder and rotating the lens until the scene came into Focus us the proper aperture and shutter speeds had to be manually selected for each shot as well to ensure a proper exposure that required peering through the viewfinder as well to meter the shot finally each shot had to be properly composed and framed which obviously also required looking through the viewfinder the problem for the astronauts is that the cameras were mounted to their chests which made it impossible to see through the viewfinder to meter frame and focus the shots everything therefore was pretty much of a guess focusing would have been entirely guesswork as with the framing of each shot an experienced photographer can accurately estimate the exposure settings but the astronauts lacked such experience and they were also handicapped by the fact that they were viewing the scenes through heavily tinted visors which meant that what they were seeing was not what the camera was seeing to add to their troubles they were wearing space helmets that seriously restricted their field of vision along with enormously bulky pressurized gloves that severely limited their manual dexterity the odds of then getting even one of the three elements exposure focus and framing correct under those conditions on any given shot would have been exceedingly low and yet amazingly enough on the overwhelming majority of the photos they got all three right a rather self-important gent by the name of Jay winley one of the most prominent of the NASA approved debunkers attempts to spin all this away on his website claus. org according to winley quote the exposures were worked out ahead of time based on experimentation the ASA ISO rating of the film was known and NASA photographers pre-computed the necessary exposures in many cases the camera setting things for Planned photos were given in the astronauts cuff checklists did they send an advanced team to the Moon to do that experimentation because the lighting conditions on the moon are pretty unique as you well know and nobody had ever been there before so I'm not really seeing how NASA's photographers were able to work out the exposures quote ahead of time and what quote planned photos are you referring to how did they know what they were going to photograph before they even knew what was there they knew they were going to take photos of each other I suppose and of the flag and the Lander but they would have had no clue how those things were going to be lit and it's the lighting not the subject that primarily determines the exposure settings Wiley of course knows that since he claims on his site that he is quote an experienced photographer who has worked professionally in that area from time to time he must also know then that his comments about the unimportance of properly focusing a shot are intentionally misleading he starts off on the right track more or less advising readers that an increased depth of field quote means that when the lens is set to focus at a certain distance objects somewhat nearer and farther from this ideal distance are also Sharp ly focused the narrower the aperture the greater the depth of field it is certainly true that the smaller the aperture the greater the depth of field will be and the greater the depth of field the more of the background and foreground will be in Focus assuming that the subject is in proper Focus Wiley like the rest of the debunkers would like us to believe that all of the photos shot on the lunar surface were shot with a very small aperture setting which supposedly explains the lack of stars in the lunar sky but we'll get to that soon enough which would maximize the depth of field and the greater the depth of field according to wendley the sloppier the photographer can be about his Focus settings unquote I might jump in really quick and add a couple of notes just for those that really are unfamiliar with photography uh the word aperture think of the iris in your pupil of your eye when you are outside on a bright sunny day the pupil dilates to a very small opening to effectually stop light from coming in only so much light is required to light a scene the pupil of the eye adjusts to the proper setting every time and as we all know you step out of a brightly lit day into a dark room the pupil of the eye dilates now to a large aperture in photography the larger the number the smaller the aperture it'd be a bright sunny day the smaller the number the larger the aperture it's just the opposite of what one would intuitively think so in effect the larger the number the more light you're stopping from entering the scene landscape and Architectural photographers tend to work in a wide angle environment with a wide depth of field if an individual is in doubt they can set the aperture to f8 it's called the f8 rule for street photography you're just walking around and you want to shoot and if your focus ring is somewhere in the middle or maybe even set to Infinity uh you'll most likely get a clean shot of something portrait photographers will work in a shallow depth of field to isolate their subject to throw the background and the foreground out of focus you know the eyes are usually the the focal point of a portrait and so that's usually where you locate aack sharp focus and let everything else fall out as need be some of the images that Dave shows here that are provided by NASA are captured with a shallow depth of field the more open the lens is the faster it is that one can shoot and when that occurs when when one is shooting at a fast aperture not even a very long shutter speed is required to really bring in a lot of stars in the sky if the imagees sto down to like say F-16 which is a very small opening it's going to require a much longer shutter speed you're going to require a tripod every time if you're going to shoot in a broad depth of field a tripod is almost always required in today's cameras the iso which was the former ASA the film speed is now the sensor sensitivity being able to see real time in today's mirrorless cameras the that I use will actually show me what's in Focus they didn't have that luxury back in the day and they were shooting with Rangefinder cameras to Mr windley and to the uh NASA photography team's credit Rangefinder cameras can be calculated based on distance uh they don't function as a 35mm SLR usually a rangefinder camera has a lens assembly that is acquiring the image and the viewer is not looking through an image that's bounced which is what a single L reflex is an SLR it's bouncing the the image that you're seeing from the lens it's bouncing it through two mirror assemblies up into your eye through the viewfinder whereas a rangefinder camera doesn't do that it's off to the side and it's just there for a distance calculation so if they have their distances calculated they can guess and point and shoot uh whether they're looking through or not doesn't matter all they're going to be seeing is something that is a tool there to help them calculate the distance and usually Rangefinder photography requires the use of peripheral tools to help you really dial in an accurate shot so photographically speaking it's not an allog together Beyond The Pale impossibility but the likelihood of such imagery coming back in such fashion is just as fantastic as anything else when looked at in detail continuing so the greater the depth of field according to Wiley the sloppier the photographer can be about his Focus settings that last statement for those who may have missed it is the part that actually isn't true an increased depth of field most certainly does not mean that you can use the close enough technique to focus your camera depth the field has nothing to do with whether your subject is sharply focused or not if your subject is sharply focused then depth of field determines how many of the other objects in your background or foreground of your photo will be in Focus as well if your subject is not sharply focused however then your photo is going to suck regardless of the amount of depth of field and that is true as for framing the shots windley claims that mostly wide-angle lenses were used which meant that quote it was sufficient enough to point the camera in the general direction of the subject and you would be likely to frame it well enough unquote so apparently all the bus about framing exposure and focus is much a do about nothing all you need do is write down the exposure settings on your sleeve ballpark the focus and point your camera quote in the general direction of your subject and you'll get great shots nearly every time windley then adds and this is my favorite part of his photography tutorial that on the later missions quote a 500 mm telephoto lens was also taken and the cameras were modified with sighting rings to help aim them normally the camera would be mounted on the spacit chest bracket but for telephoto use the astronaut would have to remove it and hold it at eye level in order to sight down the Rings as any photographer knows getting a decent shot with a 500 mm lens without the use of a tripod is a pretty tall order even for a seasoned professional getting a decent handheld shot with a 500 mm lens while wearing bulky pressurized gloves would be just about impossible and the notion that you could come anywhere close to properly framing or focusing an image captured with a 500 mm lens without looking through the viewfinder is laughably absurd and that is true uh shooting with a long lens like that is very difficult uh 500 mm is inherently a very shallow depth of field regardless you can open it up but you are going to be using a tripod or that image is going to be utterly useless and blurry and not only a tripod but a gimbal head a gimal head is a Precision ball bearing head that usually is what is attached to the tripod the the actual lens is so huge the lens is attached to the tripod not the camera body so shooting handheld with a 500 mm lens uh is a very very challenging task without a tripod I can't emphasize that enough and the point that Dave aptly makes here very soon is that we should see especially with the absence of an atmosphere on the moon supposedly allegedly we should be having very vibrant star shots from the surface of the Moon and these don't exist and look at the photos and just determine for yourself normally if no stars are present in a night photograph it's because the image is likely underexposed and stopped down too far the aperture isn't open enough not enough light is coming in uh the conditions are not sensitive enough and the settings are not proper in the exposure triangle that is aperture shutter speed and ISO despite frame in issues again they can't look down so they're just going to be pointing and shooting allegedly but again in their defense it could have happened that way but the likelihood of it is just it is really hard to believe photographically especially with the quality of these images if it's legit they had to really practice this uh photographically it just doesn't happen like that I mean this is what separates paid photographers from from those who are just enthusiasts is really dialing in the exposure triangle and how important it is to acquire Tac sharp Focus to really flatter your subject to really separate it from its background to do everything that's possible in the camera without the use of any post production to separate their subject and flatter their subject as much as possible then when they bring it into post they can really go further and go the extra mile to further flatter their subject this happened in the analog world now it happens in the digital world today Photoshop is just a digital dark room it was developed after anel Adams's processing technique uh these are things that a lot of people aren't aware of it's not there for photo surrealism and to add things that don't exist it's there to actually make the photograph uh as anel Adam famously quoted you don't take a photograph you make it and he understood that and that's why his photos stand the test of time he made them such you can't just take that photograph you have to make it the dunkers will also tell you that it is not true that all the moonlanding images were Keepers and that NASA only release the best of the photos the debunkers however do not know what they're talking about the reality is that NASA has released all of the alleged photos taken during the Apollo missions including indecipherable ones that are labeled quote inadvertent shutter release which I have to admit is a nice touch with the exception of what are most likely deliberate mistakes the clear majority of the shots are pretty well composed exposed and focused for those who don't find that at all unusual here's an experiment that you can try at home grab the nearest 35mm SLR camera and strap it around your neck it's probably an automatic camera so you'll have to set it for manual focus and manual exposure now you'll need to put on the thickest pair of winter gloves you can find as well as a motorcycle helmet with a visor once you've done all that here's your assignment walk around your neighborhood with the camera pressed firmly to your chest and snap a bunch of photos you'll need to fiddle with focus and exposure settings of course since you won't be able to see or feel what you're doing also needless to say you'll have to just guess on the framing of all the shots you should probably use a digital camera by the way so that you don't waste a lot of film cuz you're not going to have a lot of keepers of course part of the fun of this challenge is changing the film with the gloves and helmet on and you'll miss out on that by going digital anyway after you fill up your memory card head back home and download all your newly captured images while looking through your collection of unimpressive photos Marvel at the incredible awesomeness of our Apollo Astronauts who not only risked life and limb to expand man's Frontiers but were also amazingly talented photographers I'm more than a little surprised that none of them went on to lucrative careers as professional shudder bugs even if our fine astronauts could have captured all those images the film would have never survived the journey in such pristine condition even very brief exposure to relatively low levels of radiation used in airport security Terminals and damag photographic film so how would the film have fared after prolonged continuous EXP exposure to far higher levels of radiation and what of the 540° fhe temperature fluctuations that must have been some amazingly resilient film stock and yet another example of the Lost technology of the 1960s even though the images are clearly not what NASA claims they are we're going to play along and pretend as though Neil and Buzz and all the rest of the guys could have actually taken them the question is where did they take them hoax theorists debunkers and NASA are all in agreement on at least one thing conditions on the surface of the Moon are decidedly different than the conditions here on the surface of planet Earth for one thing the moon has no atmosphere also there is only one source of Light which is of course the sun NASA has verified that no other light source was available to the astronauts due to the lack of atmosphere on the moon light is not scattered and travels only in a straight line from the Sun and is reflected back in the same direction what that means is that anything that falls in the shadows will be in virtually complete darkness it also means that all shadows will be cast in the same direction and it means that the sky is always black and with no atmosphere filtering The View that Sky will be filled at all times with a dazzling display of stars unlike anything ever before seen by man as other Skeptics have noted none of the other photos supposedly brought home from the moon show a single star in the sky debunkers have claimed that this is because the exposure settings on the cameras didn't allow for the stars to be captured on film in order to properly expose for the objects being photographed debunkers claim shutter speeds had to be too fast and apertures too small to capture the stars and that applies according to the debunkers to every single photo taken on the moon even all the ones that according to those same debunkers were improperly exposed NASA's own website has boldly stated that quote astronauts striding across the bright lunar soil in their sunlit space suits were literally dazzling setting a camera with the proper exposure for a glaring space suit would naturally render background Stars too faint to see the problem with this claim which should be obvious to any photographer is that a variety of different exposure settings would have been required to shoot all the photos allegedly taken on the moon when Le acknowledged as much when he claimed that NASA precomputed the necessary exposures all of the scenes below for example which are obviously not very well lit would have required long exposures exposures that would have definitely captured the brilliantly shining stars since they would have been the brightest objects in the camera's field of view the photos are great one thing that I love about the debunking websites by the way is how frequently they contradict themselves while working their way through their debunking checklists the ever pompus Phil play proprietor of the appropriately named bad astronomy.com website is a prime example fairly early on in his debunking rant he writes as follows quote I'll say this here and now and return to it many times the Moon is not the Earth conditions there are weird and our common sense is likely to fail us unquote play does indeed return to it often whenever it advances his argument to do so but he just as frequently tosses his own cardinal rule aside when that is what serves his purposes like for example just four paragraphs later when he advises readers to quote go outside here on Earth in the darkest night imaginable and take a picture with the exact same camera settings the astronauts used you won't see any stars it's that simple ever the koi one Phil doesn't tell us what those quote camera settings are but he clearly implies that those same settings were used in every photo which is clearly not the case Phil also conveniently forgets that the view from the Moon is not filtered through an atmosphere so the stars have many times the Luminosity as here on Earth Phil's little experiment therefore is entirely invalid since he forgot to take into account that conditions on the moon are quote weird and as with all the debunkers he also forgot to explain why it is that no one thought to expose a photo or two to specifically capture the brilliant display of stars Legend holds that a dozen astronauts walked upon the surface of the Moon for varying amounts of time the Apollo 17 astronauts alone were purportedly there for 3 days for the duration of their visits each of the 12 would have been treated to what was by far the most dazzling display of stars ever seen by the human eye what they would have seen was many times more stars burning many times brighter than can be seen anywhere here on planet Earth collectively The Dirty Dozen took thousands of photos throughout their alleged Journeys and yet amazingly enough not one of them thought it might be a good idea to snap even a single photograph of such a wondrous site of course endless photos of the lunar modules and the monotonous lunar surface are exciting too but just one or two photos of that dazzling lunar sky might have been nice as well it's as if someone went to Niagara Falls and the only photos they brought back were of the car they drove sitting in a nondescript parking lot now let's turn our attention to the subject of shadows as Skeptics have no noted some of NASA's photos seem to depict non-parallel Shadows indicating more than one light source debunkers have claimed that all such discrepancies can be explained by quote perspective and topographical variations on the surface of the Moon and truth be told many of the images that I've seen on websites on both sides of the aisle are ambiguous enough that such explanations can be plausibly argued but there are as it turns out images in NASA's collection that aren't quite so easy to debunk there are in fact images that demonstrate unequivocally that more than one light source was used take for example the image below of one of the landing PODS of the Apollo 11 lunar module allegedly parked on the surface of the Moon the primary light source meant to simulate the sun is obviously positioned to the right of the scene as is clearly demonstrated by the shadows of all the objects in the background but there's just as obviously a secondary light source coming from the direction of the photographer we know this because we can see in the foreground that the Shadows coming off the small moon rocks point away from us we know it also because we can see the light being reflected off of the gold foil wrap onto the ground in front of the Pod but we also know it most of all because we can actually see the light reflected in the foil wrap on the leg of the Pod the shadows in the foreground and in the background are at nearly right angles a phenomenon that cannot by any stretch of imagination be explained away as a perceptual problem especially when we can clearly see the reflection of the secondary light the other question concerning this particular photo how do you suppose you would go about capturing such a low angle shot with a chest mounted camera was the astronaut or photographer standing in a foxhole the other issue involving Shadows concerns the fact that in the majority of the photos alleged taken on the moon objects lying in the shadows are clearly visible even though due to the moon's lack of atmosphere and the fact that the sunlight therefore does not scatter those shadowed areas should be completely black the moon you see is kind of a black and white world if something is in the direct path of the unfiltered sunlight it should be well lit on one side if it's not it should be as black as NASA's starless lunar Sky the debunkers of course have an explanation for this let's turn once again to bad astronomy.com for that explanation since that seems to be the website that all the other fing websites consistently reference and link to the one that all the major media Outlets endorse and the one that even NASA apparently refers Skeptics to according to the site quote the lunar dust has a peculiar property it tends to reflect light back in the direction from where it came play Then goes on to provide the following explanation of the lighted Shadows phenomenon quote let's say the sun is off to the right in a picture it's Illuminating the right side of the Lander but the left is in Shadow however the sunlight falling beyond the Lander on the left is being reflected back toward the Sun that light hits the surface and reflects to the right and up directly onto the shadowed part of the Lander in the previously cited sample play managed to make it through four entire paragraphs before contradicting himself here he has easily shattered that record by incredibly enough contradicting himself in back-to-back sentences and this keep in mind seems to be the best debunker that NASA has to offer play is right on the money when he says that the light falling beyond the lunar module on the left would be reflected back towards the sun unfortunately he then immediately contradict himself by claiming that that same light would be reflected to the right onto the module the only way that could happen as play surely knows is if the light were to shine through the Lander and reflect off the Shaded portion of the soil but that makes no sense of course just as Phil's explanation makes no sense light does not disperse on the moon as play himself notes Elsewhere on his website and the surface of the Moon or at least what passes for the surface of the Moon in NASA's photos is not a very reflective surface as can clearly be discerned in the photographs actually it would be more accurate to say that the Moon is a very select ly reflective surface with the light choosing to reflect only on the astronauts and on flags and other patriotic symbols not too surprisingly play once again invites readers to reproduce the effect right here at home completely ignoring the fact that as he himself has acknowledged light behaves in entirely different ways here on Earth than it does on the moon play also claims that quote a Nifty demonstration of the Shadow filling was done by Ian Goddard and that can be found here and there's a link to it on his website his demos are great and really drive the point home unquote in truth godard's quote 50 demonstrations are entirely dependent upon the effects of atmosphere causing light to disperse and thus they have no validity whatsoever I forgot to mention in the earlier discussion by the way that play also appeals to readers to conduct an Earthbound experiment to debunk the diverging Shadows conundrum according to Phil quote you can experience this for yourself go outside on a clear day when the sun is low in the sky and compare the direction of the Shadows of near and far objects you'll see that they appear to diverge here is a major claim of the hoax Believers that you can disprove all by yourself here's another experiment that play might want to try himself go outside during the daytime on any day of your choosing and look up at the sky if it's absolutely jet black then feel free to continue advising your readers to conduct Moon simulations here at home if it is blue however or gray or white or pretty much any other color than black then stop pretending as though the conditions on the moon can be replicated here on Earth when we all know better or we all should and when you're done with that experiment give the camera to the chest challenge a try and let everyone know how well that works for you and try to get some of those low angle shots that NASA likes the truth is that even though a limited amount of light would reflect into the Shadows there's still way too much detail visible in the shadows in virtually all of NASA's photos if the arguments that NASA and play put forth earlier are at all accurate as readers will recall the earlier claim was that the lunar surface and the astronaut space suits were so dazzlingly bright in the unfiltered sunlight that very fast shutter speeds and very small apertures were required to avoid overexposing the shots the problem for NASA and its attack dogs is that you can't have it both ways if the camera has stopped down to avoid overexposing extremely bright highlights it cannot simultaneously capture full detail in the shadows and if the aperture and shutter speeds are set to capture detail in the shadows the camera would necessarily also capture the brilliant Stars which would be far brighter than anything lying in the lunar Shadows other planets would be pretty hard to miss in the lunar sky as well though none can be seen in any of NASA's photos Do You Remember by the way what Wiley told us earlier about the relationship between the aperture setting and the depth of field the basic rule is that the smaller the aperture setting the greater the depth of field will be with a wide aperture conversely the photo will have little depth of field that is why portrait photographers tend to shoot with the lens wide open to deliberately isolate the subject from the foreground and background elements landscape photographers on the other hand stop The Lens down to keep the entire scene in focus with that bit of basic photographic knowledge in hand it's fairly easy to determine whether NASA's photographs were in fact taken with a very small aperture setting and a good place to start I suppose is with the very first photo taken allegedly by a man standing on lunar soil below is what is alleged to be Armstrong's very first attempt at lunar photography just after climbing down from the module wow clear shot very shallow depth of field first off I think we can all agree that under the circumstances it's a pretty damn good first effort there are problems right off the bat of course with the fact that the Shadows are obviously lit with a diffused secondary light source or else we wouldn't be able to see the top of the bag or the United States signs or the shadowed side of the landing strut but what we're really looking for here is depth of field which this photo has very little of the photographer is focused on the United States sign and he did it blindly but little else is sharply focused hence we know from the very first shot that the debunkers are lying about the exposure settings moving on to Armstrong's second alleged photo seen below we again find that there is very little depth of field and what he means folks is that there is some elements out of focus at the foreground and in the background if it were a very wide depth of field everything would be in Focus but it's not the case with this shot this is what he's trying to say is that the camera was used in a fast way which should be showing stars in those Skies both the foreground and the background are quite blurry indicating that it clearly was not taken with a small aperture setting and yet there is Nar a star to be seen before moving on there's one more of Armstrong's photos that I feel obligated to present here it is after all his Masterpiece as well as being probably the most iconic of all the Apollo photos I'm talking of course about the so-called man on the moon shot of cohort Buzz Aldren seen below which is probably not actually Aldren my guess is that the same two actors did all of the Moon walking in the videos and photos from the alleged missions we must first of course compliment Neil on the awesome composition it hardly looks staged at all once again I'm just not seeing the depth of field that windley promised us it's also pretty hard not to notice that Buzz's SPAC suit isn't pressurized furthermore the surface of the quote moon is quite unevenly lit indicating that the light source used was much closer than the Sun and then there is the noticeable lack of any shadowing on buzza spacit he's casting a shadow but there is no corresponding shadowing of his body even here on Earth that is only possible with a secondary light source there are some photos in NASA's collection that were taken without a secondary light source so we do know what fake moonlanding picture should look like the action shot below of a lunar rover for example was taken without the secondary light to fill in the shadows the Shadows still aren't quite as dark as they would be on the moon but the difference between a fake moonshot taken with a fill light and a fake moonshot taken without a fill light couldn't be more obvious NASA liked the man on the moon image so much by the way that they essentially restaged it for the Apollo 12 mission as can be seen below a secondary light was used for that shot as well without the fill light there was simply no way that a portion of the astronaut spacit would not be shadowed as it is in the Rover photo above moving on then to the next issue we have the mystery of the disappearing crosshairs the problem according to Skeptics is that the Crosshair reference marks which are etched into the camera's lenses and therefore should always appear on top of any objects in the photos sometimes disappear behind those objects play actually gets this one correct in explaining the phenomenon as a problem of overexposure and contrast when some the brighter objects in the photos are Overexposed the fine crosshairs tend to get washed out that is in fact a reasonable explanation for the effect by the way I mentioned before that I was not a rocket scientist I am however a photographer the claim that the crosshairs should be visible presupposes that NASA added objects to the photos creating composits I seriously doubt though that that would have happened the scenes appear to have been carefully staged before the photos were taken so that there would have been no need for cutting and pasting and if NASA had planned on adding additional elements to the photos I doubt they would have complicated that process by using cameras with crosshairs it would have been much easier to create the composits first and then overlay the grid marks on top of them however the same can certainly not beet of the images that purport to show various parts of the ship flying through space which is supposed to be a two-dimensional rendering of a three-dimensional scene of the command and service modules in lunar orbit if it were an actual three-dimensional scene the spaceship would be 69 Mi above the lunar surface which would I would think make it difficult for a portion of that lunar terrain to obscure part of the ship's s-band antenna assembly the shot as can be seen in the enlargement below is clearly a composite and not even a very good one so it is entirely possible that some of the photos allegedly shot on the moon are composits as well I obviously haven't studied every one of them I'm just saying that the ones that I have seen that have disappearing crosshairs do not appear to be Composites the next problem with the NASA photos is that some of them seem to have identical backgrounds but different foregrounds as Phil play explains quote in one photo they show the lunar Landing with a mountain in the background they then show another picture of the same Mountain but no Lander in the foreground at all the astronauts could not have taken either picture before landing of course and after it lifts off the Lander leaves the bottom section behind therefore there would have been something in the second image no matter what and the foreground could not be empty play begins his debunking by stating rather hilariously qu as always repeat after me the Moon is not the Earth unquote play goes on to claim that distances are very difficult to judge on the moon and that the two photographs were actually taken from much different angles and yet the background remains virtually unchanged because despite appearances it is a really really long way away either that or one of the astronauts was really David Copperfield the two photographs appear below I'll leave it to the readers to decide whether as play claims the mountains are in fact many many times further away from the Lander than the Lander is from the photographer and I'll do so while noting that Phil provides neither the photographs nor a link to them but instead asks readers to accept what he says on faith I wonder why he would do that if he were so sure of his conclusion inions I also wonder why in the final photo the Lander appears to be parked much closer to the quote mountains than play would have us believe and once again folks the photos are all right there on the website and that concludes part four of wagging the moon doggy by David McGowan head over to Center forign informed america.com scroll down to the features tab look for moond doggy click and feel free to join us down the road we'll be picking up with part five here in the next day or two be sure to visit the book tab and purchase a book or make a donation to support the work of the late Dave McGowan and his family as always thank you for joining me look forward to catching you next time take care hello everyone welcome back today we'll be picking up in part five of wagging the moond doggy by David McGowan where he'll be kind of continuing with the photography theme it's kind of part two to the last section and so you'll definitely want to head over to the website centerfor andin am.com and take a look at the photographs that he provides as well and so let's Jump Right In part five wagging the moond doggy by David McGowan stars are not the only thing missing in the moon photos also conspicuously absent is in the indication that the lunar modules actually landed in the locations in which they were photographed specifically there is no crater visible under any of the modules despite the fact that NASA's own artist renderings clearly showed the presence of a substantial crater also not a speck of dust appears to have been displaced by the 10,000lb reverse thrust engine that powered the alleged descent NASA's artist renderings also depict a considerable quantity of smoke and flames shooting out from the bottom of the modules though nothing of the sort is visible in the purported video footage of the first landing of a lunar module and it's linked here if you want to watch that allegedly shot from inside the module as it set down on lunar soil in addition despite the ridiculously close proximity of the immensely powerful rocket engine no noise from that engine can be heard on the video as can be seen in the photo above the area directly under what is supposed to be the nozzle of The Descent stage engine is completely undisturbed not only is there no crater there is no sign of scorching and of the small moon rocks and not a speck of the lunar soil has been displaced and if you refer back to the earlier closeup of the module's landing pod you'll see that not so much of a single grain of lunar soil settled onto the lunar modules while they were setting down your initial response to this may well be well duh why shouldn't the surface of the Moon be undisturbed glad you asked the answer is that the lunar modules were not placed upon the Moon by the hand of God they had to actually land there and in order for them to land there in one piece they had to make use of the powerful riverse thrust Rockets if they hadn't they would have made Landings roughly comparable to a piano falling off the balcony of a high-rise apartment building but you say isn't the gravitational pool of the Moon considerably less than that of the earth well of course it is but that does not render objects weightless a vehicle of a curb weight of 33,000 lb here on Earth what the lunar modules weigh according to NASA still weighs close to 3 tons on the moon so it's not going to make a very soft Landing without assistance and the assistance options were necessary limited NASA could not have used parachutes such as were used with the returning command modules because parachutes don't really work without air so that would have been a dead giveaway that The Landings were faked they also couldn't use a helicopter type rotor because those also don't work in an environment devoid of atmosphere what they allegedly used then to provide the necessary brakes was a powerful reverse thrust rocket engine that is why in the artist renderings of The Landings The Landings obviously couldn't be filmed because no one was supposed to be there yet an enormous blast of flame and a hot gas is seen shooting out of the bottom of the module this massive reverse force would have served to counteract the effects of the moon's gravitational pole allowing the module to gently set down in the lunar dust unharmed and intact and needless to say that is kind of important when the very same vehicle is your only ride home B bunkers by the way like to pretend as if the hoax there has made those artist renderings up themselves as if to say hey look over here I just made up this drawing of what I think the landings should look like and NASA's Landings looked nothing like my drawing the reality though is that NASA's own artists provided those images based on the way that NASA claimed the modules would perform what the debunkers are telling you in other words is that NASA didn't really understand how their own technology was supposed to work given the manner in which the modules allegedly landed the problem here is that unless the landing service was paid with say concrete an inordinate amount of material should have been displaced by the force of the rocket blast as the module was setting down jumping down how then did the modules get there could it be that the lunar surface was so compact that even the considerable force of the rocket could not dislodge it that might be a credible explanation were it not for the fact that the astronauts themselves who with the moon's reduced gravitational pull weighed in at about 30 lb a piece maybe 60 lb each with the additional alleged weight of their packs made readily identifiable Footprints from the moment their feet hit the ground it appeared in fact as though the lunar soil had roughly the same consistency as baby powder and yet amazingly enough not a single grain of this soil seems to have been displaced by the landing of the modules the debunkers naturally enough have an explanation for this according to them it's all about throttle control sure the rocket on the Lander was capable of 10,000 lb of thrust but they had a throttle they fired the rocket hard enough to deorbit and slow enough to land on the moon but they didn't need to thrust that hard as they approached the lunar surface they throttled down to about 3,000 lb of thrust let's try again to inject a little sanity into this discussion shall we first of all no one with an ounce of Common Sense is going to cut the engine and let their 3 ton spaceship simply dropped to the lunar surface nor are they going to cruise on in while progressively easing up on the throttle effortlessly setting the module down like a car pulls into a parking spot as if they had been Landing lunar modules since the day they were born because the reality is is that six astronauts who allegedly landed six lunar modules hadn't done it before and they only had one chance to get it right because that lunar module was their only ride home and if they damaged it in any way they weren't going home ever they weren't going to do anything except die within days in the most most desolate Place imaginable and that is why it is perfectly obvious that if they had really gone to the Moon they would not under any circumstances have landed the module either of the ways that the debunkers have suggested has anyone ever seen a helicopter land that is essentially how you would land a lunar module as well the basic technique is to line yourself up with your Landing sight while hovering a fairly short distance above the ground with the module I presume you would Hold Your Position by utilizing those clusters of horns then when you're stabilized and lined up just where you want to be you very slowly ease off the throttle so as to very gently set it down and if you've never done it before you're definitely going to want to take your time and that is why there should quite obviously be blast craters under those lunar modules that is why NASA itself indicated that there would be blast craters under the lunar modules and that is also why it is fundamentally impossible for the modules to be as impeccably clean and dust free as they are in all of NASA's photos and no amount of spinning from the debunkers will ever explain that way as previously mentioned there was much about the Apollo project to stand and in awe of every individual phase of the mission was in and of itself a breathtaking technological achievement just blasting men into Earth orbit is a daunting task so much so in the nearly half century that has passed since the first two Nations did it the US and the USSR only one other China has managed to join that elite club and China has only done it a few times in the entire history of space exploration just over 500 men and women have ever orbited the Earth achieving Earth orbit was just the beginning then there was the 234,000 Mi journey through through the unknown to get to the moon on a single take of gas in an unshielded spaceship then there was the main ship giving birth to the lunar module and that untested lunar module then flying down and making a perfect landing on the surface of the Moon then there was that same untested lunar module blasting off from the surface of the Moon without the assistance of any ground crew and ascending 69 Mi to attain lunar orbit then there was the ever reliable lunar module finding catching and docking with another ship while in lunar orbit utilizing yet more untested technology then there was the Command Module shedding the lunar module and then commencing that 234,000 Mi Journey back home but as remarkable as it was to get the astronauts safely to and from the Moon their survival while on the moon was equally remarkable to say that the Moon is an environment incompatible with the survival of humans would be a considerable understatement which brings us to our next topic of discussion those amazing NASA moonwalking suits those suits were able to provide the astronauts with everything they needed to stay alive in the Moon harsh environment remember NASA's elaborate rendering of what a moon workstation protected from space radiation would look like NE and Buzz didn't need any of that fancy stuff because they were wearing the magic suits and those extreme temperatures of plus 260 F to -280 Fahrenheit not a problem when you're wearing the magic suit not only could they provide the cooling needed to combat the Searing temperatures in the Sun but they could also provide the heat to counteract those frigid shadows as can be seen in NASA's photos the egress side of the lunar modules decide what the latter in hatch was usually in the shade though almost always well lit what that means is that after traing around in the Sun for a spell the astronauts would have to step into the Shadows to reenter the spacecraft and when they did so those space suits were apparently smart enough to react instantly and switch over from turbocharged air conditioning to blast furnace Heating in the blink of an eye in addition to providing radiation protection that today's technology is unable to match and a climate control system that is beyond anything available in the 21st century the magic suits also provided astronauts with breathable air which definitely came in handy what the suits did in essence was provide the astronauts with their own little portable climate control radiation protected atmosphere of course to actually do that if we're pretending that it could be done at all the suits would have had to have been pressurized and it is perfectly obvious from all of the photos that the suits were not in fact pressurized because if they were the astronauts would have looked like the Michelin Man bouncing around on the surface of the Moon the magic suits had to perform one other function as well they had to serve as head-to toe body arm because the moon according to NASA had a serious problem with driveby shootings from outer space seriously I'm not making that up I read it on NASA's own website in the very same NASA post that discusses moon rocks being constantly bombarded with absurdly high levels of radiation another curious admission can be found quote meteoroids constantly bombard the moon our old friend from NASA David McKay explains that quote Apollo moon rocks are peppered with tiny craters from meteoroid impacts quote NASA explains then that that could only happen to rocks from a planet with little or no atmosphere like the moon meteoroids NASA continues are nearly microscopic specs of space dust that fly through space at speeds often exceeding 50,000 mph 10 times faster than a speeding bullet they pack a considerable punch the tiny space bullets can plow directly into moon rocks forming miniature and unmistakable craters according to Nessa every square inch of every exposed surface of every Rock allegedly gathered from the surface of the Moon shows this pattern by extension then we know that every Square in of the lunar surface is peppered with meteoroid CR ERS there really is no safe place to hang out there you are minding your own business lining up your golf shot and the next thing you know a meteoroid is ripping through your spacit at 50,000 mph that has to sting a little bit actually what it would do is kill you almost instantaneously not the projectile itself which probably wouldn't be lethal after passing through the space suit but ripping or puncturing your magic suit while on the moon is certainly something that you would want to avoid you know that old saw about nature of Horrors of vacuum how that applies here is that any penetration of your suit would result in all the air being immediately sucked out and then your blood would begin to boil and that can be rather unpleasant I guess the Apollo Crews really dodged a bullet on that one not one of the astronauts was hit nor any of the lunar modules nor any of the lunar Rovers nor any of the equipment that was used I have to say here by the way that those Apollo guys were studs of the highest magnitude did they know what they were signing up for what did NASA's ads say astronauts wanted no experience necessary duties will include taking a trip to the Moon return trip cannot be guaranteed applicant must be able to withstand levels of radiation higher than anything that can be generated here on Earth applicant must also be able to work comfortably and heat in excess of 250° f as well as in cooler conditions approaching minus 300° a continuous supply of breathable air may or may not be provided by employer snacks and water will be necessarily limited to what fits an employee provided lunchbox restroom facilities will not be available the ability to dodge 50,000 mph space bullets is not re requ ired but would be helpful this is a great money-making opportunity payex will be picked up upon return to Earth the Apollo guys didn't have to worry about any of that of course because they were wearing the magic suits apparently those suits were yet another example of NASA digging deep into The Well of lost 1960s technology a huge shout out by the way is an order for the guys at Nasa for posting that article about the moon rocks being bombarded with radiation and meteorites it makes it so much easier for me when NASA has already done so much of the work of debunking the moon landings when announced on January 14 2004 that America was going to be returning to the Moon we were quickly advised by NASA types and various television Talking Heads that such a goal would require about 15 years to achieve no one in the media thought to ask why it would take 15 years to do with 21st century technology what it only took 8 years to accomplish with 1960s technology not one voice was raised to ask how with the twin advantages of improved technology and prior experience would it still take twice as long this time around it's not after all as if we have to reinvent the wheel here not only have we done this before we've done it safely and reliably how could NASA possibly improve upon the record of the Apollo missions what could they come up with that could outperform those vintage Saturn V rockets that made it to the moon every time and made it home safe every time how do you improve upon a lunar module that not only performed flawlessly every time but that was also the very model of lightweight compact efficiency when you have a system that performs flawlessly on SI incredibly technologically complex missions and that delivers your astronauts home safely even on the one occasion that the systems run a muck why in the world would you toss it in the trash and start from scratch the next time around according to a Fox news report published after this announcement quote the effort to return to the moon will require building new spacecraft and sending out robotic craft to provide materials to be used later by human explorers say experts wonder why they would need to do that we didn't need to do stuff like that last time why does NASA keep insisting on Reinventing the wheel here why do they seem to have forgotten that we're old hands at this sort of thing anyway doesn't it seem just a little strange that experts would now suggest that if we get to work right away we might be able to land men on the Moon by the year 2020 isn't that like saying with a lot of hard work and a little luck we might be able to develop a video game as technologically advanced as pong by the year 2025 or that by 2030 the scientific Community might produce a battery operated calculator small enough to fit into your pocket and if you think that if we do go back the the voice actors will be given a better script a NASA statement released in July of this year contained a rather curious assertion quote conspiracy theories are always difficult to refute because of the impossibility of proving a negative unquote it is not of course NASA that is being asked to prove a negative but rather those pesky conspiracy theorists NASA is merely being asked to prove a positive which should be a relatively easy task all they have to do is produce some actual evidence beginning with all those reals of tape containing the elry data the biomedical data all the voice Communications the original video tape they could also release the plans and specifications for all that fancy space hardware and maybe offer some kind of reasonable explanation for why so many of the official photographs are demonstrably fraudulent alternatively they could just send some guys back there to prove that it can be done it's been 37 years and counting since the last guest on the moon checked out NASA allegedly filmed that final liftoff from the Moon by the way in case you haven't seen the historic film footage you can view it here it's a very short clip and it's actually quite funny so be sure to check it out I can't be 100% certain of this of course but I have a very strong hunch that NASA picked up this footage off The Cutting Room floor after Ed Wood had finished editing plan N9 from outer space actually I probably shouldn't joke about the clip because I kind of do feel bad for the guy that they had to leave behind to operate the camera I wonder how he's doing these days actually NASA claims that the camera was mounted to the abandoned lunar rover even in space Americans are arrogant litterbugs and that pan and zoom functions were operating remotely by the ground crew back on Earth they couldn't control your television from across the room but NASA could ban and zoom a camera from 234,000 Mi away and there apparently either wasn't any delay in Signal or NASA had the foresight to hire a remote camera operator who was able to see a few seconds into the future you have to really hand it to the Nasa boys those guys think of everything the Visionary proposal envisioned the moon as a stepping stone for man travel to Mars how that works though is a bit of a mystery to me the minimum distance astronauts would have had to travel to reach Mars from the Earth is 36 million miles and the minimum distance astronauts would have to travel to reach Mars from the Moon is also 36 million miles so I guess what I'm wondering is what exactly would be gained by making a pit stop on the moon but let's take a big bite out of the reality sandwich here shall we the human animal is quite simply not equipped for space travel Beyond low earth orbit there is virtually no chance that we are going to send men to the Moon anytime soon despite what NASA would like you to believe the combination of lethal space radiation lethal temperatures a complete lack of breathable air and a lower gravitational attraction that produces serious health problems including Rapid tissue and Bone degeneration is simply not compatible with human existence neither is getting pelted with space bullets neither is a lack of food and water astronaut Steve Lindsay after being chosen to command the final plan mission of the Space Shuttle had this to say quote everybody at Nasa feels the same way we in favor of taking the next step and getting out of low earth orbit so while technology and every other realm of human existence Contin continues to take giant strides forward everyone at Nasa appears to want to take a big step backward to 1969 before bidding Ado I have one final note to add a certain Dr Thomas gold was an early skeptic of the feasibility of landing on the moon he made headlines prior to the alleged flight of Apollo 11 when he predicted that any attempt at a moon landing would be disastrous NASA of course reportedly proved the good doctor wrong longtime readers will remember that Dr gold was America's first prominent proponent of the abiotic theory of oil and gas production and that he went and dropped dead just before the peak oil propaganda started to heat up Dr gold was recently proven to be correct on the origins of so-called fossil fuels and that article is linked here the article curiously enough refers to the research as quote revolutionary which it is I suppose if you ignore the fact that the Soviets and ukrainians did the same research and Drew the same conclusions some 50 years earlier we all know that that can't be true however because it would be impossible to keep a secret of that magnitude from the entire Western World right and that concludes wagging the moon doggy part five by David mcgallen feel free to jump over to centerfor and informed am.com take a look at Dave's books consider purchasing one or a donation to help his family wagging the moond doggy part six by David mcgaan it took Pilots 50 years to progress from scarf and goggles barnstorming to setting down footprints on the Sea of Tranquility it will have taken another half century iny for us to return to the Moon David Nolan writing in Popular Mechanics March 2007 according to the latest from NASA we won't be returning even after another half century has passed it was to be such a big event that NASA decided to throw an all night party at its AES Research Center to celebrate Moon themed movies and a big screen set up for the main event what NASA built as the quote spectacular lcross lunar impacts according to a media advisory linked NASA's lunar crater observation and sensing satellite lcross Mission will come to a dramatic conclusion at approximately 4:30 a.m. Pacific Time 7:30 a.m. eastern time on Friday October 9th 2009 with the impact of the elros centur upper stage rocket and 4 minutes later the impact of the elros shepherding spacecraft into KBS crater near the Moon South Pole to Mark the event NASA a research center is hosting lcross impact night news media are invited to cover the three-part event that is open to the public and free of charge clear back in June when the mission was launched Scientific American explained to readers how quote scientists expect the blast to be so powerful that a huge plume of debris will be ejected the second impact the magazine further explained would produce a spectacular explosion that should be visible in amateur astronomers telescopes the plan was that the first impact would send up such a huge cloud of lunar dust and debris the larger spacecraft would then follow the same course directly through the cloud before necessarily crashing into the surface of the Moon it would have only 4 minutes to gather data and transmit it back to Earth as the LA times explained the day before the big event quote if all goes according to plan the spacecraft will fly through the cloud of debris that will rise above the lunar surface and linger there briefly as it passes through the cloud the satellite's nine instruments will analyze the dust and debris for evidence of water before crashing itself so in addition to providing a spectacular show the mission was also going to feed the American public's need for instant gratification by providing some relatively quick results in that short 4-minute span of time we would gather all the data needed to determine within days if there is water Frozen in the Deep craters on the moon the times noted that quote scientists preparing for the Collision could hardly contain their excitement over what might turn up in that short time the crowd at ases was expected to number in the thousands possibly even as many as 10,000 all there to see quote a dust cloud Rising as much as 6 Mi above the lunar surface providing a rare show for amateur astronomers with telescopes 10 in or longer in addition to gathering at the amim complex countless other viewing parties were organized around the country and around the world to view NASA's live footage and were dutifully lined up at their telescopes awaiting the show and the times noted quote observatories around the world will be watching along with the Hubble Space Telescope and the lunar reconnaissance Orbiter Steve Hixon vice president of advanced concepts at North rip Grumman the manufacturer of the spacecraft assures reporters that the craft was quote looking great I don't think we could miss the moon now if we tried a full 40 years ago we were able to set a man spacecraft gently down on the moon and then fire the engine back up and fly home now with four Decades of additional experience and vastly improved technology all we had to do was send an unmanned spacecraft on a one-way mission to crash into the moon how could NASA possibly mess that up the media kept referring to the lcross mission as the quote bombing of the Moon given that NASA is essentially an arm of the US Department of Defense there should have been a cakewalk last time I checked no one knew more about dropping bombs and firing missiles than the US military no other country on Earth has come anywhere close to dropping as many bombs on as many parts of the world as Uncle Sam has the moon May well be the only landmass with in reach of the United States that we haven't bombed before with the United States having long L the world in both lunar exploration and blowing stuff up this Mission couldn't really have been any easier so it came as no surprise that everyone seemed to be brimming with confidence as it turned out the front page space that all the major media Outlets had undoubtedly set aside for the dazzling images wasn't needed after all with all eyes on the moon what all those viewing parties and all those amateur astronomers and all those giant telescopes saw was absolutely nothing the first impact was supposed to be captured on live video being back from the second spacecraft never materialized as the LA Times politely put it quote the plume failed to show on screen there is an explanation of course quote some scientists suspect the camera settings on the second spacecraft were incorrect preventing it from spotting the plume you would think though that with the importance of the second craft being able to see the plume so that it could then fly through it that they would have gotten that detail right but apparently they just don't have the quality control over at Nessa that they had back in 1969 as for why none of the amateur professional telescopes aimed at the Moon captured the first plume or the allegedly even larger second plume well NASA's going to have to get back to you on that but probably not right away the times was quick to reassure readers that quote scientists might still pluck success from the mission's anticlimactic ending at a news conference more than 2 hours after the crash Mission scientists confirmed that the centur rocket made a crater when it hit and that crater was about the expected size of more than 60 ft across there's no way to confirm that claim of course since the ship allegedly impacted inside a 2m deep pitch black crater that hasn't seen daylight for millions of years which is exactly why it was targeted and how pointless by the way was this Mission the goal was supposedly to discover if there were large deposits of Frozen water on the moon that could be mined to provide water breathable oxygen and rocket fuel for future lunar exploration and colonization the water if it exists is at the bottom of deep permanently black craters where the temperature is said to hover aroundus 400° F at those temperatures the scientific Community tells us the water would be Frozen as hard as a rock even if we assumed that NASA could overcome all the problems with getting astronauts to the moon and guaranteeing their survival while there how exactly would they recover that water toss bombs in the craters and then try to run around and gather all the chunks of ice before they melt at plus 280° drive down into the craters and one of those folding dune buggies with flashlights and a couple of battery powered jackhammers some warm clothes and a bunch of batteries we're going to build a giant mechanized water extraction facility of some kind with parts brought up one at a time from Earth how long do you suppose that will take it's anyone's guess what the real purpose of this mission was but whatever goals were being pursued it doesn't seem to have gone so well all that can be said for sure is that NASA appears to be but a shadow of its former self once upon a time we were able to blast men off into space and then turn on our televisions and watch them Just 4 days later stroll around on the moon nowadays we send off an empty spaceship wait patiently for nearly 4 months and then watch as NASA fails to successfully crash that empty ship into the moon since the news media fell asleep at the wheel and failed to bring you the spectacular images that had been promised I dropped by NASA's website to pick up a few and bring them to you the following three photos were labeled as lcross impact images following that is a link to NASA's thrilling live video footage enjoy the show it's quite dazzling did anyone notice by the way all the other lunar modules that are recognizable in the larger image captured by NASA's lro as will be recalled they are recognizable by The Long Shadows they cast there are most notably probably near a dozen of them CL Ed around the crater to the right of the image I wonder how the boys at Nasa figured out which one was the real lunar module great photographs need to go check them out guys and that is the end of part six for wagging the moon doggy Dave mcgallen as always be sure to head over to centerfor Anin informed am.com and consider purchasing a book or making a donation to support his family be sure to jump over to frr network.com check out the wide variety of hosts as always thank you for joining me I look forward to catching you next time take care wagging the moond doggy part seven by David mcgallen the Lem lunar Excursion module was coded in myar to many Engineers the final vehicle was an insult to every notion of what a spacecraft should look like it was one of the weirdest and most improbable flying machines ever conceived Moon machines the lunar module Science Channel 2008 while idly flipping through the channels the other day I noticed that the Science Channel was planning to air a couple of moonlanding documentaries luckily I was a bit bored that day so I decided to tune in though was not really expecting much beyond the standard claims that have been made in numerous other documentary films focusing on the alleged Apollo missions I was pleasantly surprised however to find that the two hours that I spent watching the Science Channel spin the moon landings was time well spent seeing as how I picked up quite a few facts that I had not previously come across in other source material the most important thing that I learned was a lesson of sorts never attempt to mock the Apollo missions for the simple reason that such efforts will be in vain since no claim made in just no matter how absurd can never at top the lunacy of the actual claims made by NASA and its subsidiaries the better of the two televised documentaries was Moon machines the lunar module which turned out to be part of a series which as luck would have it is readily available on Netflix with all six hours conveniently packaged on a single DVD Netflix seemed to think that I might also enjoy Nova's 2hour to the moon and the Discovery Channels multi-part when we left Earth so I added those to my queue as well having now absorbed everything that these have to offer I realized that my debunking of the alleged moon landings wasn't really as thorough as it could have been so another chapter is on order maybe two or three perhaps even four Moon machines the moar module began by having a talking head explain to viewers that when JFK delivered his historic speech on May 25th of 1961 the one in which he boldly proclaimed that Americans would walk on the Moon by the close of the decade quote the United States had a total of 15 minutes of space flight experience and now we were committed to go to the Moon we knew nothing about the moon unquote indeed if Kennedy had delivered that speech Just 3 weeks earlier this statement would have to be modified to quote the United States had no flight experience at all and now we're committed to going to the moon on May 5th 1961 Alan Shepard had become the first American in space when he took a 15-minute ride in a Mercury capsule that basically went up and then came right back down that mission was a hastily assembled hey look we can do it to response to the USSR having put the first man in space on April 12th 1961 Shepherd's accomplishment didn't even come close to what the had achieved Yuri gagaran had written Theos 1 into low earth orbit completing a single orbit in 1 hour and 48 minutes in comparison shepher had essentially taken a short ride aboard an oversized bottle rocket it would take another four months until September 13th 1961 for the United States to get its first unmanned spacecraft to complete an Earth orbit it would not be until near the end of February 1962 nearly a year after gagarin's flight that NASA would claim to have gotten an American John Glenn into orbit on the day of gagarin's historic flight a clearly uncomfortable President Kennedy fielded questions from a concerned press Corp if we intended to be the Russians to the Moon Kennedy testly replied that quote we first have to make a judgment based on the information we can get whether we can be ahead of the Russians to the Moon asked a follow-up question about the Saturn Rockets already under development by the Von Braun team and obviously annoyed Kennedy replied that quote Saturn is still going to put us well behind Conrad danenberg a rocket propulsion engineer who worked alongside Von Brun for some 33 years first in NACI Germany and then in Huntsville Alabama readily agreed that quote they the Soviets were really in all areas way ahead of us so despite the frequent claims of the debunkers that it was actually a really close race or that the Soviets weren't really leading at all everyone from the president to the scientists who actually designed and built the machines that allegedly took us to the Moon agreed at the time that the Soviets were far ahead of the US in virtually all aspects of the Space Race truth be told I appear to have sold the Soviet sh by leaving out a number of the early accomplishments of their space program including a couple of Firsts that the United States was unable to match for decades here then is a more complete list of Russian firsts in the Years leading up to and during the alleged Apollo missions May 15th 1957 the Soviet Union tests the R7 sorca the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile October 4 1957 the Soviets launched Sputnik 1 Earth's first man-made satellite November 3rd 1957 a dog named laa becomes the first animal to enter Earth orbit aboard Sputnik 2 January 2 1959 Luna 1 becomes the first man-made object to leave Earth's orbit September 13 1959 after an intentional Crash Landing Luna 2 becomes the first man-made object on the moon October 6 1959 Luna 3 provides mankind with its first look at The Far Side of the Moon August 20 196 6 belela and stroka aboard Sputnik 5 are the first animals to safely return from Earth orbit October 14 1960 Mars neck 1 the first probe sent from Earth to Mars blasts off February 12th 1961 vanera 1 the first probe sent from earth to Venus Blast Off April 12 1961 Yuri gagaran writing aboard the VTO 1 becomes the first man in earth orbit May 19 1961 fera 1 performs the first ever flyby of another planet which is Venus August 6th 1961 German tto aboard the vasto 2 becomes the first man to spend over a day in space and the first to sleep in Earth orbit August 11th and 12th 1962 BTO 3 and BTO 4 are launched the first simultaneous man flights though they do not rendevu October 12 1964 BOS Cod 1 carrying the first multim man crew is launched March 18 1965 Alexa leonov riding aboard the voshod 2 performs the first space wall February 3rd 1966 Luna 9 becomes the first probe to make a controlled soft landing on the moon March 1 1966 Venera 3 launched November 16 1965 becomes the first probe to impact another planet Venus April 3rd 1966 Luna 10 becomes the first man-made lunar satellite October 30 1967 Cosmos 186 and Cosmos 188 become the first unmanned spacecraft to rendevu and dock in Earth orbit the United States Will Not Duplicate this maneuver for nearly four decades January 16 1969 soyuz 4 and soyu 5 become the first man spacecraft to dock in Earth orbit and the first to exchange crws November 17 1970 the lunar code 1 the first robotic Rover to land on and explore an extraterrestrial body lands on the moon 27 years later the United States lands its very first robotic Rover on Mars December 15 1970 vanera 7 becomes the first probe to make a soft landing on another planet April 19 1971 salute 1 becomes the world's first orbiting space station and August 22nd 1972 Mars 2 becomes the first probe to reach the surface of Mars I feel much better now that we've set the record straight on all that the Soviets achieved the first flyby of the Moon launched the first craft to impact the moon were the first to make a soft landing on the moon put the first object into lunar orbit and remain to this day the only nation to land and operate a robotic vehicle on the moon it should now make perfect sense to everyone then why the Soviets who were ahead of us in virtually all aspects of space exploration in some cases by decades never landed a man on the moon or even sent a man to orbit the Moon Moon come to think of it they never even sent a dog to the Moon it would have been difficult to argue that the Russians didn't have adequate funding for their space program or that they didn't have some of the finest scientific Minds on the planet working for that space program or that they didn't have the will or the desire to succeed what they were lacking I'm thinking is access to Hollywood production facilities returning then to our prior topic of discussion on April 14 1961 2 days after gagarin's historic flight a panicked Kennedy reportedly inquired of NASA what goal in space we might be able to attain before the Soviets according to Legend Kennedy was told that America's best hope to beat the Russians was with a manned moon landing the reasoning was that the Soviets were so far ahead of us that they would surely troun Us in achieving any Milestones attainable in Earth orbit space walks prolonged flight rendevu and docking Maneuvers Etc so our best bet was to shoot for a far-off goal the problem however was that none of the technology requires to attain such a goal existed at that time we did not have the rocket techn techology to power such a mission nor the navigation system to guide such a journey nor the digital computer technology to control that navigation system nor the space suit technology to protect our astronauts nor the technology to rendevu or dock in space nor the technology to create a dune buggy capable of operating on the moon nor the technology to design and create a lunar Landing vehicle NASA had been in existence for Less Than 3 years having been created in 1958 as a direct response to the ussr's launch of Sputnik nevertheless just eight Summers later we allegedly did indeed land men on the moon in just eight short Years starting essentially from scratch we designed built tested refined and perfected every piece of technology required to put men on the moon and we did it so well in the brief period of time that by July 1969 every Cog in the wheel performed flawlessly and yet now with a half century of space exploration now under our belts and with all the Necessary Technology Long perfected NASA advises us that it would take twice as long to put a man on the moon but I may have already pointed that out following in Kennedy's bold declaration nobody really had a clue how to get astronauts to the Moon in back one school of thought held that what was needed was a humongous rocket ship that would fly all the way there and land and then fly all the way back the main drawback to this proposal was that it was completely Preposterous the biggest problem was that it would somehow require Landing a 300t tall cylinder in a perfectly upright position but that wasn't the only problem getting in and out of a capsule amounted a top such a tall rocket ship can be a bit of a problem as well as well as relaunching that rocket without a launch pad and a ground crew another idea called for the launch of two large rocket ships one primarily carrying Fuel and the other carrying our fearless astronauts the idea was that the two vehicles would rendevu and dock in Earth orbit the man ship would refuel from the other ship and our boys would then leave for the moon why this was deemed necessary is anyone's guess given that the debunkers generally claim that you don't really need much fuel once you leave Earth orbit because you just kind of fall through the vacuum of space until you get to the moon amidst all the Preposterous ideas on how to get our guys to the Moon ahead of the ruskies one lone voice in the wilderness an obscure engineer by the name of John hubal had been promoting a radically different plan build a second lightweight spacecraft to be carried aboard the larger mother ship that would be capable of shuttling down to the Moon in back while the larger ship remained in lunar orbit there was only one massive drawback to get back to Earth would require the lunar shuttle to rendevu with the mother ship in lunar orbit what scared everybody about it was that you had to rendevu and dock around the Moon you're a quarter of a million miles from Earth and he's proposing this in 1961 when we had no space flight experience and just ruing an Earth orbit concerned everybody needless to say everyone scoffed at Holt's radical suggestion the very vocal opposition at Nasa was led by Mr Von Brun who categorically and heatedly dismissed the notion of completing a lunar orbit Rendevous the idea by the way appears to have been cribed from an early Soviet study but hubot was allegedly tenacious sort who wasn't about to give up easily even going so far as to write directly to B B Seaman at the top of the NASA food chain on November 15th 1961 hubot was of course immediately taken seriously by the NASA brass who promptly decreed that his ideas should get a serious hearing a major turning point was supposedly reached when a meeting was convened in June of 1962 during that historic meeting we were informed by the narrator of moon machine quote Von Bron took everybody by surprise farner's own team gave a detailed presentation to the assembled scientists after which Von Bron thanked and profusely complimented them before telling them that he was going to recommend that NASA not go with his own team's concept instead he was going to recommend the so-called lro or lunar orbit rendevu option jumping down quote it is such a surprise to everybody that even his own staff people several days later had a private meeting with him and they said why in the world did you say that why indeed my guess is that someone finally passed verer the memo explaining that we needed to get over the silly notion that the plan was to actually go to the Moon well was needed instead was a plan that could be feasibly sold to the American people curiously Mr hubal who we are led to believe was single-handedly responsible for selling NASA on the lunar module Kaa and without whom we probably would have never allegedly sent men to the moon at all has been all but forgotten that seems a rather strange way for history to treat a man whose brilliant mind allegedly opened the door for man to walk on the moon the man whose name is most commonly referenced when discussing the lunar module by the way is a gent by the name of Thomas Kelly who served as a project manager for the the design construction and testing of the Lem Kelly happened to be a member of the quill and Dagger Society Cornell University's answer to Yale University's notorious Skull and Bones I just thought maybe I should mention that July of 1962 NASA announced that it was fully committed to the lunar shuttle concept and began shopping around for a contractor to build it as fate would have it a small aircraft company on Long Island the Grumman Corporation had already been working on the design of an independent lunar shuttle vehicle cleverly anticipating the market demand Grumman thus was able to submit a much more detailed proposal than other competitors sealing the deal with NASA in November of 1962 Grumman was awarded the contract to build what moon machines described as quote the most complicated and sophisticated spacecraft ever conceived soon after we're also informed that the Lem was quote what many regarded as the first true spaceship in other words America's quote First True spaceship was also America's most complicated and sophisticated spacecraft to this day no other spacecraft has been built that is capable of Landing man on a planetary body to this day no other spacecraft has been built that is capable of taking off from and flying home from a planetary body to this day no other spacecraft has been built that is capable of Performing rendevu and docking Maneuvers in lunar orbit to this day no other spacecraft has been built that can protect astronauts from the hazards of flying through space outside of the Van Allen belts when you think about it of course it makes perfect sense that America's first true spacecraft coming as it did from the infancy of the space stage but also stand to this day as the most complicated and sophisticated spacecraft quote ever conceived after all didn't Henry Ford build the most complicated and sophisticated automobile ever conceived and didn't Orville and Wilbur build the most complicated and sophisticated aircraft ever conceived and didn't Alexander Graham Bell invent the iPhone from the outset Grumman envisioned a two-stage vehicle with as much of the weight as possible carried in the lower half or descent stage of the spacecraft eliminating excess weight was of Paramount importance early designs included no ladder for example as a ladder was considered unnecessary weight in six gravity it was assumed the astronauts would be able to climb in and out of the capsule using just a rope of course the modules never came anywhere close to being in a reduced gravity environment which is probably why a ladder was added to the landing vehicle according to the Science Channel the only constant ing grumman's drive to design the modules was changed so much so that quote finally in the spring of 1965 NASA worried the design changes would never stop imposed a freeze NASA had apparently decided that 2 and A2 years working in the knowledge and Technology of the early 1960s was plenty of time to design the most complicated and sophisticated spacecraft ever conceived whatever the Grumman team had come up with to that point would have to be good enough to get our fly boys from the mother ship to the Moon in back it was now time to go to work actually building what was described as quote an entirely independent spacecraft with its own Motors fuel life support system and navigation equipment to summ at the time it seemed excessive unquote to many others at the time it just seemed ridiculous I happen to stumble across by the way an image depicting a 1963 era LM prototype parked on the surface of the Moon as has been the case throughout this series the image comes directly from NASA's website where it was proudly presented as image of the day it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what it is that I love about this image even if it does prove me to be a liar given that I have previously claimed that none of NASA's Moon Photos depict any stars in the lunar sky according to the folks of the Science Channel the lunar module was quote built in one of the world's first clean rooms and zero gravity any floating foreign body would be a hazard a hazard that is to both the astronaut's health and to the ship's delicate onboard Electronics workers were required to wear gowns masks hair nets and booties technicians meticulously cleaned the interior with camel hair brushes and filter paper and the modules were robotically lifted inverted and shaken to rid the cabin of any debris left unexplored by the makers of machines was the obvious question of how those clean room conditions could have been maintained once the Lander sat down on the moon the astronauts couldn't shed their protective suits until they were back in the safety of the pressurized capsule so how exactly did they keep from tracking copious amounts of that lunar dust back into the allegedly sterile Elm cabin as is revealed in the lunar rover episode of the Moon machine series quote the astronauts quickly learned that the dust adhered to everything it touched everything that is except the outside of the lunar module which as we have already scene remained as clean as if it were sitting on the showroom floor and the dust apparently didn't also adhere to the astronauts boots or space suits even if Apollo astronut Charlie Duke did say while describing what it was like to ride in the lunar rover that quote Mund dust was pouring down on us like rain and so after a half a moonwalk our white suits turned gray none of that dust of course was introduced into the sterile interior of the cabin we know that with absolute certainty because we've already been told that in order for the lunar module to operate safely and correctly the cabin had to be kept dust free astute readers by the way may have noticed that Duke's comments about driving the Rover directly contradict another of the fables sold by The debunkers Who then are we to believe the guy who actually operated the Rover allegedly on the surface of the Moon and said that dust was raining down on he and his partner from all directions or a couple of self-proclaimed experts who directly contradict NASA's man on the scene there is a reason I might add here why NASA defers to these while not officially endorsing their debunking arguments it's called plausible deniability NASA knows that debunking the fact that the moon landings were hopes requires a lot of twisting of facts and the promotion of a lot of dubious science and they choose not to be directly involved in such Endeavors and that brings us to the end of part seven of wagging the moond doggy by Dave McGowan head over to Center for and informed america.com jump down to the features Tab and look for moond doggy and feel free to join along with us uh we have a few more to go feel free to jump over to the books tab and take a look at Dave's books or consider a donation to support his family thanks again for stopping by these are going quickly I'm trying to get them up and out as quickly as I can and uh as always thank you once again for joining me and I will look forward to being back with you next time take care hello everyone welcome back we'll be picking up in section eight of wagging the moond doggy by David mcgan head over to Center for and informed am.com head down to the features tab look for moond doggy and feel free to pick up with us in section A I really appreciate you guys stopping by and I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am I found it to be a very thought-provoking and entertaining read and thought maybe that you would to Let's Jump Right In shall we wagging the moond doggy part 8 by David mcgallen whenever I saw a model of the lunar module it had these rigid sides and it looked really strong turns out that external portions of the lunar module are made up of myar and cellophane and it's put together with Scotch tape and Staples we had to have pads on the floor because if you dropped a screwdriver it would go right through gem level astronaut Gemini 7 Gemini 12 Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 a quick note before moving on a little research has revealed that NASA now acknowledges that maintaining clean room conditions on space exploration Vehicles while performing Evas on planetary bodies poses a bit of a problem the agency's solution is something known as a suit Port the basic idea is to design a rear entry space suit that will remain attached to the exterior of the vehicle when not in use the astronaut will enter through the rear of the suit and then detach himself from the vehicle re-entry will require reversing the procedure NASA has even generously provided an image of a proposed lunar rover with two integrated suit ports as seen above the agency feels that such technology will be required for any return trips to the moon or for landing on and exploring other planets as with the space radiation Shield that will also be required for any return trips to the Moon NASA offers no explanation for why such technology was not required back in 1969 moving on then to the lunar modules propulsion system we were informed that the LM was equipped with two very different Rockets the first so-called descent engine would take the LM from The Command Module down toward the lunar surface it was an entirely new and untried piece of technology up until this point in history no one had ever built a rocket engine with a throttle they were either on or they were off since the LMS never had to actually perform as advertised it's doubtful that they actually had a throttle it's doubtful that they even had engines we're going to play along though and pretend as though they did Lyn Radcliffe who managed the facility at White Sands was specifically constructed to test and develop the lm's rocket engines describes the technology required to land the lunar modules quote this was an unbelievable maneuver when you stop to think about it I mean you're sitting on a column of thrust just hovering there like a helicopter and then you let it go the throttle a little bit and you lower just a few feet per second until you make contact all of this is an amazing set of requirements to put on anyone trying to design a rocket Radcliffe is absolutely right I did stop and think about it and it is unbelievable what's interesting here though is that when I describe the technique that would have been used to land the modules as being very similar to The Landing of a helicopter some of the debunkers got their panties all in a wad over it and yet here we have the guy who oversaw the development of the rocket engines describing the alleged Landings in exactly the same manner so I guess we can safely conclude that he really doesn't know what he's talking about either and Jean Cowart who served as Boeing's chief engineer on the lunar rover project from 1969 to 1971 didn't know what he was talking about either when he noted that the quote Lem when it comes down over the moon is not just immediate set down it hovers over the moon and Charlie Duke the alleged pilot of the Apollo 16 lunar module who was no doubt mistaken as well when he recently told James May from James May on the moon that flying the Lander quote was like flying a helicopter amusingly enough while the landing of the lunar module was being described on moon machines vintage animation from the gang at Nasa Grumman was displayed on the screen below are a couple of screen caps of that animation as with the verbal descriptions of course I'm sure this is just another case of the folks who actually designed and operated the technology actually being clueless about how it was supposed to work as it turns out designing that throttle equipped descent engine was Child's Play compared with the task of perfecting the spacecraft's second rocket engine as our narrator solemnly in toned quote it was the module's second rocket the so-called Ascent engine that caused Grumman the most lost sleep it didn't need a throttle but it did need to work with absolute reliability as ly Radcliff noted you're totally dependent on the ascent engine to work to put you back in orbit if for any reason the ascent engine failed to work the astronauts are doomed dick Dunn grumman's director of public relations during the time of the alleged Apollo missions described the astronauts predicament in Stark terms quote two astronauts were going to climb into this thing and essentially they were going to press a button if it worked it worked and if it didn't there weren't many things that they could do about it to keep the operation of the engine as simple as possible so-called hypergolic propellants were used that is to say a fuel and an oxidizer that explode on contact that Simplicity though came at a price the fuel were extremely toxic what most concerned grumman's Engineers was that the fuel was so corrosive that at the end of a test each engine had to be rebuilt it meant that the final assembly of an engine could never be tested unbelievably explains Radcliffe the first time these engines would ever have been fired ever no checkout at the factory the first time would be when they were fired on their mission as Dunn noted I don't think anyone could at that time tell you 100% that it was going to work seeing how the engines were completely untested both in terms terms of being able to operate within the environment of the Moon and in terms of the individual engines being Factory tested to see if they worked at all dun's evaluation would seem to be a bit of an understatement luckily though none of the Landers actually made it to the moon so whether the engines worked or not is a bit of a moot point another problem the Grumman team faced was how to adequately insulate the vehicle from the intense Heat Of The unshielded Sun there was curiously enough no mention throughout the hour about the necessity of shielding the craft from space radiation as stof noted you have to insulate the spacecraft as well as as possible because there's huge fuel tanks in there and the fuel is going to boil if not adequately protected also we are informed the huge temperature variations on the moon could also cause the craft to buckle since weight was an issue heavy heat shields could not be used luckily though Dupont had developed this new material it was a aluminized myar it was a gold color and they found that if you built it up to perhaps 25 layers it's an excellent insulator Dupont Space Age material as we all know can be obtained pretty inexpensively these days and it's still a very lightweight material I wonder why it is then that you rarely see spaceships wrapped in it anymore meanwhile down in Texas astronauts had been training on a simulator That was supposed to teach them to land the lunar module unfortunately the simulator was quote unstable and dangerous and never worked properly no one ever actually landed the contraption but on the plus side there's lots of film stock of fiery simulator crashes staf notes that quote at some point the program NASA eventually stopped using it because it was just it was a lot safer to land on the moon than it was to fly this machine down in Texas of course it was why waste time with a simulator when the real thing was going to be so much easier and NASA no doubt knew that would be the case before we even faked going to the Moon I'm pretty sure that Armstrong was pulled aside and told don't worry about almost being killed in that Simulator the real thing is going to be so much easier you'll see when you get up there just trust us on this one and we're fairly certain that there is at least a slim possibility that the ascent engine will work when it's time for you and Buzz to come home unless you know you guys happen to get a dud there's really no way for anyone to know know for sure until you get there and try to fire it up have a safe trip in the summer of 1967 the first space ready LM was delivered to Cape Kennedy to be loaded aboard the Apollo 4 launch vehicle incredibly it has taken less than 5 years to get the quote most complicated and sophisticated spacecraft ever conceived from the chalkboard to the Launchpad and in the mid1 1960s no less by the way I happen to stumble across this footage of Apollo 4 sitting on the Launchpad it is I have to say a mighty impressive shot kudos to the non- astronaut photographer who snapped it wow it's a great shot the lunar module never made it aboard that impressive looking rocket ship upon delivery the module was found to have quote hundreds of problems including bad wiring faulty Parts an abundance of poor workmanship and most alarmingly serious leaks throughout the fuel system Grumman had neglected it seemed to perform any pre-flight checks worse yet as grumman's team raced to correct the numerous problems a pressure test caused a window to blow out blasting Jagged holes in the skin of The Craft and sending debris flying throughout the formerly dust-free module because of this blowout was never determined NASA and Grumman though decided to take the what's the worst that could happen with roach and merely replace the window and ignored the failed pressure test making no design changes to the modules after all there was a timetable to adhere to in the end as we all know the lunar modules performed flawlessly according to Legend Neil Armstrong set the LM down with barely 15 seconds of fuel remaining in the tank and when he had Buzz fired up that Ascent engine for the very first time it popped them off the surface of the Moon as if they were riding on a champagne Court as it turned out though the lunar module had not yet faced its toughest challenge in the spring of 1970 fittingly enough on April 13 Apollo 13's command and service modules were allegedly rendered powerless by an explosion on the ship while cruising through space some 200,000 mi from home though in its official NASA footage the windows of the module are filled with blue light not the Blackness of space the oxygen tank explosion was allegedly powerful enough to do serious damage to the exterior of The Craft but apparently not powerful enough to alter the course of the ship that was a lucky break for the guys the three-man crew allegedly retreated to the two-man Lem which as we know had its own oxygen and fuel supplies not only did the LM allegedly keep the brave Trio alive but its descent engine was allegedly used to slingshot the crippled spacecraft around the moon and set in on a course back to Earth their ordeal wasn't over though while camped out in the L the Apollo 13 astronauts were allegedly faced with another life-threatening situation carbon dioxide was rapidly building in the ship's confined airspace lithium hydroxide cartridges were supposed to remove the carbon dioxide but there was a limited supply of said cartridges in the LM luckily though there were additional cartridges in the Command Module but they were incompatible the command module's cartridges were Square while those in the L were round what to do then according to Moon machines the Brain Trust down at Mission Control had a brilliant idea NASA suggested using duct tape and tubing from the space suits to jury rig a connection dramatic pause it worked I needless to say was just being a smart ass when I said that all we needed back in the 1960s was a roll of duct tape and we could magyer those spaceships to the moon and back NASA on the other hand is dead serious when it says that it was indeed a roll of duct tape that got the Apollo 13 crew home safe and sound with needless to say a huge assist from that spunky little lunar module which not only powered the flight home but also kept three astronauts alive for nearly 100 hours when it was only designed to keep two men alive for 50 hours according to level who was on the Apollo 13 flight we did it with duct tape and a piece of plastic and a piece of cardboard and an Old Sock the key ingredient here seems to be the duct tape it would probably be fair to say that with a roll of duct tape and any other two random items you could fix most problems that might arise on a spaceship moving on then to the other Science Channel offering a 2005 effort entitled first on the moon the untold story we learned that mission control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas quote was not as high-tech as it looked on television it looked pretty damn impressive for the era at least as anyone alive in the time recalls what the world saw was an enormous room filled with computer consoles each staffed by a key member of the Apollo team diligently monitoring his computer screen for any signs of trouble but in reality as Apollo 11 computer engineer Jack Garmin Clues Us in quote the computer screens that we looked at in Mission Control weren't computer screens at all they were televisions all the letters or characters they were all handdrawn I don't mean with a brush but I mean they were painted on a slide but they sure looked pretty damn impressive Jack Garmin by the way was not just some random low-level computer hack recruited by the Science Channel to offer commentary according to the official Legend Garmin was the guy on the Apollo 11 crew who cleared the eagle to land despite the fact that multiple alarms were going off that would tend to indicate that he was a pretty important player at Mission Control every one of those consoles on the floor of Mission Control was powered by a single Mainframe computer that had the computing power of a single laptop computer actually make that a 2005 era laptop computer and the spaceship itself that multi-staged engineering Marvel carried a computer roughly equivalent to what powers a modern digital watch total memory capacity was about 72 Koby or just about enough to hold one of the smaller images on this page as I was typing these very words I realized that I was doing so on a genuine vintage 2005 laptop computer if I were inclined to wear digital watches which I am not I would now be holding in my hands all the computing power needed to get me and a couple of friends to the Moon in back if we utilize the power of my desktop computer as well and went down to the party store to get a few rolls of myar we could probably make it all the way to Mars and back another curious fact that first on the Moon made note of was that according to Herold Len Apollo 11 Mission controller quote the skin on the crew cabin of the lunar module was very thin and that was all done because of weight savings another added that quote if you really took your finger and poked hard at it you could poke right through the outer skin of the spacecraft it was about the thickness of two layers of aluminum foil project manager Thomas Kelly concurred noting that quote the aluminum alloy skin of the crew compartment was about 121 1, Sub in thick that's the equivalent of about three layers of rental draft that you would use in the kitchen it's difficult to see then why that window would have blown out during the LM pressure test you would think that the guys at Grumman would have securely duct taped it to the fuselage and I'm also sure that had the window not blown out and released the pressure the rest of the ship would have passed the pressure test with flying colors it would appear that what was deployed by the mother ship to get our guys down to the moon was essentially an oversized Jeffy Pop container with the brain power of a digital watch the show's narrator was quick to point out that the astronauts had to be very careful while moving about in their bulky suits lest they puncture or otherwise damage the delicate skin of The Craft what wasn't pointed out was that the vacuum of space had to be very careful as well careful not to rip the pressurized craft to shreds the instant it was deployed one would logically assume by the way the LMS would have to be kept safely tucked away within the Mother Ship until lunar orbit was achieved but according to NASA that's not the case the official Legend holds that the lunar modules were deployed shortly after leaving Earth orbit about 3 hours after blasting off and that they then doed in a nose to noose configuration with the command and service modules while both spacecraft were flying through the vacuum of space at either 177,000 or 25,000 mph depending on the source in other words for virtually the entire 234,000 miile Journey from the Earth to the Moon that flimsily constructed lunar module essentially served as the front bumper of the Mother Ship other than to allow for the creation of The Little Engine That Could Fable surrounding Apollo 13 which holds that the conjoined spaceships flipped over and the front bumper became the engine it makes little sense why that would happen to be done Not only would it have exposed the fragile lunar modules to the hazards of a lengthy space flight it could have also required a docking maneuver in outer space one that seems to go unmentioned in the majority of the Apollo literature amazingly enough not only were the lunar modules capable of making soft manned Landings on the moon and of blasting off from the surface of the Moon and of rending and docking with the Mother Ship while in lunar orbit they were also capable of docking with the Mother Ship while cruising from the Earth to the Moon by my count those spunky little modules had to dock no fewer than 17 times during the various Apollo missions and they performed perfectly every time twice in Earth orbit on the Apollo 9 Mission and twice on each of the Apollo 10 to 17 missions except for APO 13 which did not complete the second docking maneuver let's pause here for a brief moment to reflect on the alleged plight of the Unlucky Apollo 13 crew there were no seats in the L as it had been decided that they would just add unnecessary weight and there was just barely room for two guys in the space allegedly being occupied by three all three had this had been a real life and death situation would have been wearing bulky space suits boots gloves and helmets however somehow they had to coexist for 4 days during that time all that would have separated them from the extreme hazards of outer space was a double layer of aluminum foil one microm meteorite or one misplaced elbow would result in immediate death for the trio as the narrator informs US during when we left Earth quote if the flight suit fails or even tears a little the difference in pressure will cause the astronaut's blood to boil killing him instantly the same would be true of course about the skin of the spacecraft the smallest tear would mean instant death for all three of course their suits would have allegedly provided a second line of defense except that as can be seen in one of the handful of Apollo 13 mission photos released by NASA the astronauts weren't bothering to wear their suits as they cheerfully went about the business of macgyvering their spaceship as we already know their Cockiness was entirely Justified since that aluminum foil capsule provided all the protection the astronauts needed to get home safely no fewer than eight lunar modules allegedly made the Hazardous Voyage to the moon and all of them arrived in Immaculate condition the Apollo 13 lunar module was exposed throughout virtually the entire Mission all the way to the moon and all the way back in all the 8 LMS allegedly log some 2 million miles of unprotected space flight and not one of them suffered so much as a scratch that my friends is 1960s technology at its finest and that concludes part eight of wagging the moond doggy by David McGowan once again head over to Center for informed america.com head down to the features Tab and scroll down to moond Doggy be sure to pick up with us in part nine so uh we look forward to uh catching you then as always thank you for joining me and we will catch you next time take care hello everyone welcome back today we're going to jump into part nine of wagging the moond doggy by David mcgallen as always jump over to Center for nined america.com hit the features Tab and jump down to Moon doggy and feel free to pick up with this in section nine the section actually starts off with a bit of a debunking of a MythBusters episode but we're going to bypass that and get on into the meat of the uh technical aspects of the space suits once again the photographs are excellent so by all means head over to that website and check out the photographs that uh go along with the article so let's Jump Right In wagging the moon doggy part nine during the flight of Gemini 7 the crew will remove their lightweight space suits and fly in their underwear James V Coral Jr the head of the Gemini Support Office there's no question in our minds the only way to fire these things is without pressure suits I'm convinced we could run the whole works without suits all we need is a suit for re-entry and emergency stored on board somewhere astronaut Frank Bor and voice Transmissions from the Gemini 7 capsule in the early 1960s as NASA began training astronauts to meet President Kennedy's challenge it realized that there was one key area of expertise that it knew nothing about nobody knew how to build a space suit that would enable a human being to survive in the lethal lunar environment so begins Moon machines the space suit as previously noted Alan Shepard had ridden the first manned Mercury capsule into suborbit just before Kennedy's announcement the Mercury program launched in 1959 just after the formation of NASA was America's first Space Program the suits used for that program were according to both NASA and the talking heads on the Science Channel redundant the capsules provided the astronauts with their first line of defense the suits were only an emergency backup that no one was sure would even work but now with Kennedy's commitment to the Apollo program our astronauts are going to need suits that provided their first and only line of defense NASA didn't yet have suits that could operate off the ship's life support systems through umbilical cords such as would be needed to perform space walks and now it needed suits capable of providing fully independent life support starting essentially from scratch NASA was going to have to come up with one of the most technologically advanced space suits ever conceived and was going to have to do it very quickly eight companies reportedly submitted proposals to NASA for consideration almost all were companies that were known within the Aerospace industry one however was known for its work in somewhat different field of endeavor the international latex Corporation was best known for the manufacturer of platex bras and girdles impr probably enough though it would soon be adding Apollo space suits to its product line Wikipedia it should be noted contains a much different version of events than what was provided by Moon machines including a claim that ilc began designing space suits as early as 1955 the version provided by the Science Channel however came directly from the people who were involved in the project and the company's own promotional material hold that quote ilc started designing suits in 1961 started making test and prototype suits in 1964 and started delivering suits for use by Apollo Astronauts in 1966 in April 1962 NASA awarded the Apollo space suit contract to ilc Hamilton standard a company known for manufacturing aircraft propellers was assigned to oversee the project ilc quickly put its bra and girdle seamstresses to work cutting and sewing Apollo space suits meanwhile Hamilton standard went to work designing and building the life support packs known as plss units or portable life support systems amazingly enough the first space suits to roll off the line were delivered to NASA for testing in 1963 ilc had designed and built the suits in just over a year unfortunately though they had a major flaw astronauts testing them quickly overheated in the Florida sun which is roughly 160° F cooler than the surface of the Moon NASA issued an ultimatum to Hamilton standard solve the cooling problem and do it immediately or the contract would be cancelled the solution was to design a water cooled undergarment by early 1964 just 2 years after the awarding of the contract the redesigned suits were being shipped to NASA for testing NASA however was still not impressed with what Hamilton and ilc had come up with the suits were deemed to be too heavy extremely difficult to move around in and intensely uncomfortable to wear even for short durations in the fall of 1964 NASA canceled the contracts with both ilc and Hamilton standard which was 5 years left to fulfill Kennedy's dream NASA had no working space suits and no contract with anyone to design and build working space suits after briefly experimenting with the so-called hard suits NASA decided in the spring of 1965 to reopen the bidding on the space suit contract both Hamilton and ilc again submitted proposals and again the contract was awarded to the makers of play teex bras Hamilton was awarded a separate contract to design and build the life support packs just weeks after NASA awarded those contracts Gemini astronaut Ed White allegedly became the first American to perform a space walk despite the fact that NASA did not yet appear to have a suit that would allow for such a maneuver nevertheless on June 3rd 1965 white allegedly performed a successful 22-minute Eva extra vehicular activity in NASA jargon which was yet another week and do it two response to the Soviet Union's first Space Walk as astronaut Jee kernin recalled leonov's spacewalk on March 18 1965 shocked a lot of people it caught us totally unexpected and you know we were just barely flying in space in our own little capsules they weren't even big enough to be called spaceships indeed the United States hadn't yet gotten the first two-man capsule into space the Mercury program which had ended nearly 2 years earlier had only gotten four single occupancy capsules into orbit NASA's plan had been to attempt a space walk on the fourth man Gemini flight and it had not yet gotten the first Gemini capsule off the ground NASA's plan apparently changed rather abruptly and a few days before the launch of Gemini 4 which was only the second man Gemini Mission the first having completed just three orbits it was announced that white would be performing an Eva while Jim mcdot piloted the capsule according to astronaut Frank Borman NASA scrambled around kind of hurriedly and in my estimation without a great deal of safety Factor had edgo Eva on Gemini 4 as MCD recalled our Eva was very confidential at the time we had not announced we were going to do this we were all doing all of our training at night and only a group of maybe 30 or 40 people even knew that we were going to try it translated from NASA speak what that very likely means is that a select group worked covertly with the astronauts to fake the spacewalk footage prior to the launch of Gemini 4 notably NASA did not attempt to maneuver again for an entire year until June 3rd 1966 despite the fact that four Gemini capsules were launched during the intervening year and those four spent a combined total of 23 days in low earth orbit yet none of those four crews it would appear had time to practice space walking even though practicing in perfecting Evas was one of the primary goals of the Gemini program not even Frank Borman and Jim LEL who spent nearly two weeks orbiting Earth in a tiny capsule with virtually nothing to do for the majority of their mission had time to perform a space walk it was not until Gemini 9 that NASA attempted to duplicate White's alleged performance but that second Space Walk by Jean Kernan was by all accounts a complete failure that almost cost Kernan his life problems began almost immediately with kernan's heart rate at times soaring as high as 170 his visor became fogged leaving him blinded and disoriented his breathing was labored and he was sweating profusely doctors on the ground monitoring the situation feared he would not make it back alive and he would have to be cut loose the next two Eva attempts by Michael Collins aboard Gemini 10 and Richard Gordon aboard Gemini 11 were failures as well as 1966 was drawing to a close three astronauts in a row had failed to replicate what Ed White had supposedly easily accomplished over a year earlier but then in November 1966 a year and a half after White's alleged spacewalk none other than Buzz Aldren performed a wildly successful Eva during the Gemini 12 mission aldred had come through just in time Gemini 12 was the last Gemini mission in some the Gemini program resulted in one faked Eva three failed Evas and one presumably successful Eva even if we give the agency every benefit of the doubt the record would be three failures and only two successes and with that impressive record we're ready to send our guys off on a series of Evas of a complexity that remains unmatched to this day curiously the footage of White's alleged spacewalk is characterized by the very same slow motion photographic Tech technique later employed on the alleged Moon missions the footage released by the Soviets of leonov's Eva on the other hand does not appear to be slowed down the logical conclusion to draw of course is that moving in slow motion in space is more of a matter of culture than science the final space suits sent by ilc to NASA were supposedly composed of three layers the water cooled undergarment the pressurized inner suit that featured flexible Bellows joints and a white outer covering made of experimental fabric known as beta cloth the broad and girdle manufacturer which I'm guessing must have had a large engineering division designed and built the entire integrated suit including the helmet and visor and the specially designed boots and gloves the Apollo space suit supposedly weighed in at 180 lbs each including the plss backpacks you would think that with the advanced technology now available NASA would have been able to streamline the package to the contrary the suits now worn aboard the space shuttle weigh in at 310 lb each and ilc claims that it takes 3 months and 5,000 manh hours to produce each one back in the 1960s they claimed to be cranking out a minimum of nine of them for each Apollo flight one final note on the magic suits they were also allegedly designed for what was euphemistically dubbed sanitation management according to the designers the suits contained urine bags attached to the astronauts via what were described as condoms how that would have actually worked as anyone's guess the existence of feal bags were also alluded to but no details were given for what it's worth NASA says that its astronauts now wear what are euphemistically dubbed mags or maximum absorbency garments under their space suits the same product is more commonly referred to as an adult diaper and that is likely what the Apollo Crews would have worn as well had they actually gone on their alleged missions that would though I suppose have taken a bit of Glamour away from the romanticized notion of being a space traveler another piece of advanced technology that had to be developed for the Apollo program was the Command Module the cone-shaped tip of the Saturn V rocket that was to be the only piece of the original launch vehicle that returned to Earth to this day the Apollo command modules Remain the only capsules ever designed that were allegedly capable of keeping astronauts alive while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere for from outside low earth orbit according to those who claim to know about such things re-entering from Beyond low earth orbit is an exponentially more risky maneuver than re-entering from Earth orbit first of all Apollo capsules were allegedly traveling at 25,000 mph at the time of re-entry as opposed to the 17,000 mph that spacecraft travel in Earth orbit that additional speed results in a doubling of the already intensely high temperatures experienced during re-entry in addition the returning Apollo command modules had to enter Earth's atmosphere at precisely the right angle if they hit too wide an angle the spacecraft would essentially bounce off and Veer into space and if they hit it too sharp of an angle the spaceship and its crew would not survive the impact the capsule also had to be in the proper orientation with the bottom and thus the heat shield pointing down luckily though all nine of the Apollo modules that allegedly returned from the moon hit that narrow window in the proper orientation despite the fact that the command modules having jettison the attach service modules had no propulsion or steering capability the contract to design and build the command modules was assigned to North American Aviation whose Engineers it's safe to say had a quite formidable task before them as noted on moon machines the combined command and service modules would require a propulsion system a navigation system an environmental control system plentiful supplies of oxygen water and food heat shields capable of handling reinjury temperatures beyond anything before experienced parachutes capable of Performing near miraculous Feats a human Waste Disposal system shaving supplies hygiene supplies Life preservers protection from microm meteorites and for reasons left unexplained machetes what also wasn't explained was why the lunar modules which would be exposed throughout the flight to the Moon didn't need that very same protection from microm meteorites by the end of 1966 naturally enough North American already had a prototype Command Module ready for NASA to put through the pre-flight test regimen as designed the Command Module featured living space measuring roughly 6 ft x 6 ft x 6 fet on January 27 1967 Gus Grom Roger chaffy and Ed White squeezed into that confined space for what was dubbed a plugs out test to verify that the ship was capable of running under its own power there was another test scheduled that day as well a pressurization test of the cabin allegedly to save time NASA opted to conduct both tests simultaneously so once astronauts were in place the cabin was filled with 16 PSI of pure oxygen with the inward opening hatch sealed by the interior cabin pressure the astronauts never had a chance to survive the quote test all it took was a spark allegedly from some faulty wiring to turn the capsule into a crematorium in a pressurized oxygen environment even aluminum will ignite the crew reportedly were dead within 30 seconds of the onset of the fire it took Rescuers five minutes to pry the hatch open waiting in with perhaps the most appalling quote to make it into these articles George Jeffs the chief engineer of the command and service modules had this to say quote from a technical point of view I think the fire had a very beneficial effect on the program it enabled the program to stop and review exactly where we stood on every element of the system and to fix every problem that we saw in the system of course roughly the same effect would have been achieved by burning up the module while the astronauts were not in it but there's no need to quibble over Minor Details I suppose it took 18 months to redesign The Command Module over 100 design changes were made to correct the various shortcomings this redesign process was undoubtedly made more difficult by the fact that no paper records had been kept of what had been installed in the module as we've already seen the Apollo program didn't place a high priority on record keeping one bit of technology that had to be developed for the command modules presum for the lunar modules as well was what moon machines described as quote an environmental control system designed to cope with the most extreme environment ever encountered by humans Cliff hes was an environmental systems test engineer with NASA during the Apollo days and he described the challenge they faced as follows quote you can go from 250° F down to minus 250° F and it can happen just as you cross the line of a shadow so you can instantaneously go from one extreme to the other and have like a 500° Fahrenheit change apolloeight astronaut Frank Borman described his alleged flight to and from the Moon in precisely the same terms quote you'd be 250° Plus on the sunny side and once the spaceship rotated and you were in the shade then you were minus 250 this is yet another example of a claim that I previously made that was ridiculed by the debunker Brigade as being ill-informed and yet here we see once again that the very same claim has been made by one of the guys who actually worked on that aspect of the project as well as by one of the guys who allegedly flew the missions it's rather shocking to find that so many of the people who developed Andor utilized the Apollo technology actually know significantly less about it than the debunkers before running their mouths off to documentary film Crews these Old-Timers should really visit a couple of debunking websites I wonder why it is by the way that the Apollo 13 astronauts were said to have been very cold throughout their return flight in their allegedly crippled spaceship as recalled by Jim lble the trip was marked by discomfort Beyond lack of food and water sleep was almost impossible because of the cold when we turned off the electrical systems we lost our source of Heat and the sun streaming in the windows didn't help much it wasn't simply that the temperature dropped to 38° F the sight of the perspiring walls and wet Windows made it seem even colder we considered putting on our SPAC suits but they would have been bulky and too sweaty we found the CM a cold clammy Tin Can when we started to power up the wall ceiling floor wire harnesses the panels were all covered with droplets of water there's so much wrong with that brief description of the flight that it's difficult to know where to begin critiquing it but let's start by pondering why they would have been short on food and water the mission ended up returning a few days early so unless they overindulge the first few days there should have been more than enough food and water for the trio in the conjoined command and lunar modules and as for the cold how could that 250° Fahrenheit Sun streaming in the windows not help much as for the water droplets covering the interior of the command and lunar modules wouldn't many of those droplets have been Airborne if they were in a zero gravity environment wouldn't the inside of the module that looked something like a snow globe and as we're opting not to Dawn the space suits that's just laughably absurd as already noted without the suits the only thing that would have been protecting the astronauts from the hazards of space would have been a double layer of aluminum foil for that reason alone it's inconceivable that they wouldn't have been wearing them and now we find that they're also facing near freezing conditions and they still chose not to utilize the suits because the suits were you know a little bulky and it's much better to nearly freeze to death than to break a little sweat anyway returning more or less to where we left off Apollo 7 equipped with the redesigned Command Module became the first man Apollo flight to triumphantly lift off from Cape Kennedy on October 11 1968 three previous flights had gone up unmanned this one wasn't quite a real Apollo launch however since it was powered by the smaller Saturn 1B rocket no one had yet ridden a Saturn V rocket off the Launchpad and there's just one year to go to meet Kennedy's goal of Landing men on the moon Apollo 7 was the first of a series of Apollo launches that came in an incredibly rapid succession just 71 days after Apollo 7 took flight Apollo 8 lifted off Apollo 9 followed just 72 days later followed by Apollo 10 76 days after that a mere 59 days later Apollo 11 took flight in just nine months NASA assembled and launched five incredibly complex multi-staged rockets and ilc provided at least 45 space suits three of those ships allegedly flew all the way to the Moon Apollo 8 would be the first to allegedly do so and that concludes part nine of wagging the moond doggy by David mcgallen once again head to Center for an informed america.com the features tab scroll down to moond doggy and pick up with us next time in part 10 so uh once again thank you for joining me look forward to catching you next time take care hello everyone welcome back today we'll be getting into part 10 of wagging the moond doggy by David McGowan let's Jump Right In the mission of Apollo 8 quite apart from its significant scientific meaning stimulated an immense Rejuvenation of the spirit of mankind and that Spirit needed Rejuvenation a year featured by two Grim assassinations Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy by riots by racial and social strife and a baffling attempt to end the war left men with a dull sense of frustration then at the end of such a year came be Apollo 8 an incredible Adventure Dr Norman Vincent Peele 33rd degree Scottish right reason Apollo 8 was the last Apollo flight to leave the ground during the Johnson Administration a decade before the launch LBJ had laid out America's goals and the space race and none of them had much to do with sending men to the Moon quote control of space means control of the World from space the masters of infinity would have the power to control Earth's weather to cause drought and flood to change the tides and raise the levels of the sea to divert the Gulf Stream and change climates I thought it was global warming That was supposed to be causing most of that but I guess that's a bit off topic to anyone paying close attention in the 1960s the ridiculously improbable flight of Apollo 8 should have sent a clear signal that the Apollo Moon missions were going to be seriously lacking in credibility launched on the winter solstice of 1968 Apollo 8 was only the third launch of a Saturn V rocket and the first to carry a crew the first two Saturn V launches Apollo 4 and Apollo 6 were what NASA referred to as all up tests of the three-stage launch vehicle those tests didn't go so well the team of Rocket scientists who had developed the F1 and J2 rocket engines that powered the flights most of whom were former Nazis recorded through Project Paperclip and relocated to White Sands and then to Marshall space flight center in Huntsville Alabama one of the best sources of information on this is Hunt's secret agenda St Martin's press 1991 see also Tom Bowers the paperclip conspiracy by littl in brown 1987 this team of scientists had assumed that each stage of The Craft would be tested separately they were reportedly horrified to find that NASA was bypassing such tests and proceeding directly to an all-up test of Apollo 4 but probably not nearly as horrified as the American people would have been if they had known the truth about the past lives of NASA's rocket scientists and there's a photo of the team here nevertheless the launch of of Apollo 4 the very first Saturn V launch was allegedly a smashing success that claim seems rather dubious however given that the next all-up test of Apollo 6 was marked by multiple malfunctions the first stage burn had serious vibration problems and two of the second stage's five engines cut out throwing the ship seriously off course according to Moon machines NASA was undeterred by the serious problems encountered during the flight of Apollo 6 quote despite the near loss of Apollo 6 NASA was pushing ahead with Apollo 8 the third Flight of the Saturn V and the first to carry a crew NASA was so confident in fact that they decided to throw caution to the wind and swing for the fence with Apollo 8 quote the third Flight of the Saturn V would carry astronauts not to orbit the earth as everyone had expected but to orbit the Moon had the Apollo program been a real space exploration Endeavor the first man Flight of the Saturn V would obviously have gone no further than low earth orbit as had been planned this would have likely have been followed by an unmaned flight to the moon and then possibly a flight piloted by a dog or some other such Maman life form but taking logical methodical steps toward achieving goals in space was for the guys over in Russia America was going to take the John Wayne approach without taking any of the preliminary steps and with a launch vehicle that had failed on its last outing and without knowing if the ship itself could make the journey there in back America was going to send men all the way to the Moon not to worry though NASA was confident that all the problems with Apollo 6 had been diagnosed and fixed and in record time despite the fact that the failed stages of the aircraft weren't available for inspection NASA's C team were able to expertly pinpoint and correct all of the deficiencies so thoroughly that the new and improved Saturn V rocket didn't even need a test flight to see if it was going to be working correctly indeed it was ready to go all the way to the Moon given America's track record in the Space Race which from the very beginning was marked by disappointments and desperate attempts to keep up with the Joneses it was a serious move following the October 4 1957 launch of Sputnik 1 a 184 lb Soviet satellite the US attempted to respond by launching Vanguard a 3- lb sphere the size of a large grapefruit on December 6th 1957 with the nation nervously looking on Vanguard Rose approximately 5T from the Launchpad before blowing up in a blaze of glory the US had better luck on January 31st 1958 when it officially entered the space race with the successful launch of Explorer 1 a 31lb satellite the Soviets meanwhile had already successfully launched Sputnik 3 a nearly 3,000lb satellite described in time lives to the Moon as an orbiting space laboratory America clearly had some catching up to do once NASA's Engineers turned their attention to the Moon as a target of unmanned space flights disappointment continued to be the operative word beginning in August 1961 the United States began attempting to crash land and unmanned craft onto the moon through the ranger program the first six such attempts failed Ranger 1 and Ranger 2 both failed on the Launchpad Ranger 3 launched successfully but missed the moon Ranger 4 became disabled and drifted about aimlessly Ranger 5 also shut down and miss the moon and the cameras aboard Ranger 6 failed rendering it useless finally on July 31 1964 nearly three full years after the first launch Ranger 7 successfully impacted and photographed the moon Rangers 8 and N followed in February and March of 1965 the three successful probes gathered a combined total of roughly 17,000 images which didn't change the fact that the ranger program overall had a 67% failure rate the next year NASA launched two new lunar reconnaissance programs surveyor and the lunar orbiter program the first surveyor blasted off on May 30 1966 was six more to follow the last on January 7 1968 the goal of the program was to attempt soft Landings on the lunar surface two of the missions surveyor 2 and surveyor 4 crashed leaving the program with roughly 29% failure rate the surveyor and Ranger programs had a combined failure rate of 50% NASA had much better luck with the lunar orbiter program which involved putting five satellites into lunar orbit between August of 1966 and August of 1967 each of the five orbited the moon capturing high resolution images for an average of 10 days each in addition to mapping the lunar surface the orbiters also sent back the first images of Earth from space and the first photos of the Earth rising over the lunar Horizon in all some 3,000 images were beamed back officially at least the problem here of course is that NASA's numbers don't seem to add up does it make any sense at all that the three successful Ranger missions which flew directly to the moon and immediately crashed sent back 17,000 images and yet the five orbiters which spin a combined total of 53 days orbiting the moon sent back just 3,000 images there's a capture rate of just over two images per hour and the orbiters had multiple cameras on board there's little doubt that the orbiters returned far more images than claimed of which only a select few relatively speaking were released what then happened to the rest of them I'm going to go way out on a limb here and guess that NASA needed those images for another more important project faking the Apollo moon landings all of those glorious shots of Earth from space and of those Earth Rises and superimposed space craft in lunar orbit were undoubtedly created from unreleased imagery captured by the orbiters as were no doubt the fake lunar sets and the fake lunar backdrops one final note on the lunar orbiters during their flights to and around the moon the five satellites recorded 22 micr meteoroid events the eight lunar modules that made the trip to the moon apparently recorded no such events or maybe the guys just put some duct tape over the holes meanwhile NASA's man space programs were having trouble as well in the beginning of course there were the Mercury Seven the nation's first Space Age celebrities immortalized in the movie The Right Stuff the first Seven astronauts were handpicked from among hundreds of the nation's finest fighter pilots six of those seven Alan Shepard Gus gome John Glenn Scott Carpenter Wally Shira and Gordo Cooper would become the first Americans in space but for most of them it would not be an entirely smooth ride Shephard was the first to take flight aboard the freedom 7 launched on May 5 1961 his was an uneventful 15minute suborbital flight grm followed on July 21st 1961 in the Liberty Bell 7 and things didn't go so well for him as with Shephard his was just a suborbital flight but it nearly cost him his life immediately after splashing Down the Hatch blew on his capsule and it began taking on water Grom got free but his suit which was supposed to serve as a flotation device also began taking on water pulling him under grum's plight did not improve with the arrival of a rescue helicopter which concentrated exclusively on trying to save the capsule ignoring the Str Grom who now also had to contend with the helicopter's rotor wash gram was pulled to safety only when a second rescue helicopter arrived the capsule sunk to the Bottom of the Sea 3 mil below Glenn was up next he was slated to be the first American in orbit riding aboard the Friendship 7 launched on February 20th 1962 Glenn did make it into orbit but NASA was not at all sure how they were going to be able to get him back the launch had been delayed for a month as NASA worked out various problems but there was still a serious glitch during Glenn's second orbit technicians on the ground determined that the heat shield essential for re-entry had come loose Glenn's capsule was seriously damaged during re-entry but he survived on harm and became an instant national hero next up was Carpenter who orbited the Earth three times aboard the Aurora 7 on May 24 1962 running low on fuel Carpenter barely made re-entry and the wrong angle of re-entry caused him to splash some 250 Mi off course and out of radio contact it took rescue crews 3 hours to find him floating in the Atlantic some on the ground blamed Carpenter for the the mishap claiming that he had wasted fuel by acting like a tourist trying to see all the sites Shir was up to bat next and he blasted off on October 3rd 1962 aboard the sigma 7 completing six orbits in just over 9 hours his was the first flight since Shephard's and the first orbital flight to be free of any significant malfunctions the final Mercury flight was helmed by Cooper who lifted off on May 15th 1963 inside the faith 7 capsule Cooper completed 22 orbits and was the first American to sleep in space problems arose in the final hours however when the capsule's automatic controls failed and Cooper had to execute the first fully manual re-entry it would be nearly 2 years before the next Americans followed Cooper into space overall the Mercury program was largely a success in the sense that everyone made it back alive and well but America had a very long way to go to get men to the Moon next up was the Gemini program featuring a larger two-man capsule Gemini which ran from March 1965 to November of 1966 had very specific goals testing man's ability to survive in space for up to 2 weeks testing rendevu and docking procedures performing Evas or space walks and making orbital adjustments all of these were to be practiced until they became almost second nature the Gemini capsules were launched into orbit with Titan Rockets which proved to be a bit unstable at first the first launch attempts blew up on the pad eventually NASA successfully launched two that didn't blow up and those were Christen Gemini 1 and Gemini 2 those were followed by 10 nand Gemini flights beginning with the Gemini 3 launched on March 23rd 1965 and concluding with Gemini 12 which took flight on November 11th 1966 the Flight of the Gemini 3 was a short one completing three orbits in just under 5 hours due to an equipment malfunction Pilots Gus gam and John Young had to manually control their re-entry and splash down some 60 Mi off Target other than that the first man Gemini mission was successful Gemini 4D launched on June 3rd 1965 remained in orbit for just over 4 days and featured the alleged Space Walk by Ed White NASA's photos of which are needless to say spectacular and once again these photos are great after a successful liftoff on August 21st 1965 Gemini 5 remained in low earth orbit for nearly 8 Days completing 120 orbits the flight was largely successful though a malfunctioning fuel cell and faulty thrusters did cause some problems for the crew upon their return it should be noted the Gemini 5's Pilots Cordo Cooper and Pete Conrad looked tired Haggard and unshaven with their hair greasy and Mt in other words they looked exactly as you would expect guys who had just spent a week in a cramped spaceship with no means of attending to basic matters of hygiene below left to right are photos of Conrad after returning from his 8-day mission level after returning from a 4-day mission aboard Gemini 12 and level again toward the end of his 14-day flight on jimini i7 the Apollo Astronauts on the other hand all arrived home looking rested shaved and fresh-faced as though they had just returned from a day at the spa the next schedule launch was Gemini 6 set to take flight and late October of 1965 the flight was postponed however due to the failure of an unmanned aena craft launched as a docking Target on December 4th Gemini 7 with Frank Borman and Jim level on board began a grueling 14-day stay in low earth orbit about a week later Gemini 6 was once again ready for launch but that launch was aborted when an engine shut down narrowly averting a fatal explosion on the pad Gemini 6 finally got into low earth orbit on December 11th and remained there for just over one day during that time Gemini 6 allegedly performed a rendevu maneuver with Gemini 7 the two spacecraft remaining side by side for some 5 and 1/2 hours while traveling at 17,000 mph curiously there was a launch of a military rocket in between the launches of Gemini 6 and 7 and level has said that the launch was connected in some unspecified manner to the mission of Gemini 7 Gemini 8 helmed by Neil Armstrong and David Scott blasted off on March 16th 1966 the goal of the mission was to test rendevu and docking procedures and to achieve the first successful docking between a Gemini capsule and an unmanned aena craft curiously the two pilots chosen for this complex Mission were both rookies the crew that had originally been slated to fly the mission Elliot C and Charles Basset were killed on February 28th 1966 just days before the launch when c one of the nation's top Pilots slammed a t-38 Talon into the side of a building in St Louis gimini 8 reportedly succeeded in docking with the aena target but trouble began almost immediately the conjoin spacecraft began to Tumble violently end overend forcing Armstrong to jettison the agena that however only caused the Gemini capsule to Tumble even more violently Armstrong finally had to resort to firing the Rockets used for re-entry positioning to stabilize the craft which necessitated immediately aboring the mission the capsule splashed down in the Pacific a half a world away from its Target in the Atlantic on June 3rd 1966 Gemini 9 piloted by Tom Stafford and Jee kernin took fly the launch had been postponed due to failure of another agena Target the goal was once again to dock with an unmanned aena craft that docking failed to materialize however when yet another aena Target malfunctioned this was also the flight on which kernin took his nearly fatal space walk there was a debate on the ground over whether he should be cut loose to drift in space or left Tethered to burn up upon re-entry if he couldn't make it back in following Gemini 9 there were only three man Gemini missions left and the United States had thus far failed to come anywhere close to mastering either docking procedures or Evas both of which would be absolutely essential for the uccess of the proposed Apollo missions gimini 10 with John Young and Michael Collins at the wheel lifted off on July 18th 1966 and remain in orbit for just under 3 days young and Collins reportedly achieved the first successful stable docking of a Gemini capsule with an aena Target Collins also performed a largely unsuccessful Eva though not as disastrous as kernin on the previous flight Gemini 11 piloted by Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon took to the skies on September 12th 1966 and like Gemini 10 remained in orbit for just under 3 days and like Gemini 10 the mission included a docking maneuver with an aena Target and a less than fully successful space walk by Gordon the final Gemini Miss in Gemini 12 put Jim level and Buzz Aldren into lorth orbit for just under 4 days aldr completed the first successful space walk and the two pilots once again practiced docking with an aena Target NASA had come a long way since shooting Alan Shepard out of a cannon in May of 1961 but the moon still seemed like a far off goal the progression from Mercury to Gemini from a single occupancy capsule to a somewhat more sophisticated double occupancy capsule requiring a somewhat larger launch vehicle was a natural one NASA's Next Step however was going to be more of a Quantum Leap the Saturn V rocket bore little resemblance to any previous launch Vehicles as Apollo flight director Jean cran observed quote it was a new spacecraft it was something that we had to learn from the ground up that we had to learn from scratch it was a massive and massively complex spacecraft the Saturn V was so much larger than it predecessors that all previous Mann launch Vehicles the six Mercury and 10 Gemini Vehicles could fit inside a single Saturn V casing a fully assembled launch ready Saturn V stood 363 ft tall and weighed in at roughly 6 million PBS 90% of which was fuel whe depending on who's telling the story it contained either 6 million or 9 million Parts there were three disposable launch stages at top which sat the lunar service and command modules which was then capped off with a launch Escape system that was jet shortly after liftoff the 138t tall first stage featured five massive F1 rocket engines Each of which consumed three tons of fuel per second they were fed by a 331,000 gallon tank of liquid oxygen and a 203,000 gallon tank of refined kerosene all of which was consumed in Just 2 and 1/2 minutes generating some 7.5 million pounds of thrust or 160 million horsepower after that first stage fell away at an altitude of approximately 35 Mi the 8 2ot long second stage powered by five J2 rocket engines took over the j2s burned a combination of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propelling the ship to an altitude of 115 mil after the second stage dropped away the 61t long third stage powered by a single J2 engine took over putting the spacecraft into low earth orbit As Time Life noted the third stage quote will not be jettison at this time instead 3 hours later it will be restarted to fire the Apollo toward the moon at 10 ,350 mi from Earth The Command Module powered by its service module will separate from the third stage make a half circle turn back toward the third stage as the lunar module shroud of the third stage opens the Command Module will dock with the lunar module which is to Ferry the astronauts between the Command Module and the moon then back it free of the third stage after completing another half circle turn the two modules nose to nose will head toward the moon sounds easy enough I can see why they were able to nail it every single time unlike the problems they had with those Troublesome aena Craft Time life also fills us in on the details of the probe and drog docking mechanism quote the probe a 10-in cylinder extending from the nose of the Command Module must be inserted into the cone-shaped receptacle the dro of the LM or the lunar module as the probe Finds Its Mark automatic spring latches lock the two together the whole probe and drogue assembly will be removed clearing the tunnel through which the astronauts will enter the lunar module inside the Command Module The Command Module pilot flips a switch that frees the lunar module pictured below are the command module's docking probe the lem's drove with the Lem allegedly in Earth orbit on the alleged Apollo 9 Mission and yet another spectacular shot from NASA's collection and a closeup of how the mechanism was supposed to work curiously left unexplained was how with the probe and drog assembly having been removed the LM was able to dock with the Command Module the second time upon his return from the lunar surface I'm sure though that the folks over at the bout Forum will be able to explain it maybe they can also explain why it is that the space shuttle never went to the moon I was thinking about that the other day as I was reading another heaping pile of debunker bla about how once you're into low earth orbit 90% of the work of getting to the Moon is already done debunkers you see claim that comparing the distance astronauts travel in space today which is 200 miles but the distance they traveled back in the magical 1960s which was 234,000 mil is entirely unfair because it is as anybody knows during the first 200 miles all that heavy lifting is done once you're in low earth orbit it's a fairly easy matter to briefly fire the engines and slingshot out of orbit and set a course for the moon and getting back is just as easy just slingshot around the moon and cruise on back to Earth it hardly even requires any fuel it's just a matter of you know falling through the void of space if that is the case however then how come none of the space shuttles during the more than a quarter Century of that program has ever done a flyby of the Moon the Apollo 13 crew allegedly made the flight in a lunar module composed of popsicle sticks and Scotch tape yet the obviously vastly more sophisticated space shuttle can't make it there and back really why couldn't it on any one of its missions just have used the old slingshot approach to get to the moon in back and please let's not Trot out the old there was no reason to do that as there was nothing to gain excuse the space shuttle is far better shielded than the Apollo craft were it carries plenty of fuel and plenty of Provisions to last for the duration of the trip indeed today's astronaut should be able to travel to the Moon in back in relative comfort so why has it never been done Apollo 8 did it all the way back in 1968 which I started to talk about at the top of this post before getting hopelessly sidetracked more on that next time and that ends part 10 of wagging the moond doggy by David McGowan once again head over to Center for nined am.com hit the features Tab and check out not only moond doggy but the other articles that Dave has written some of which have been published in book form that you can find over on the book's page thank you once again for joining me and as always we'll look forward to catching you next time take care hello everyone welcome back today we're going to continue with wagging the moond doggy part 11 we're working our way through we only have a few more parts after this so jump over to Center for and informed america.com hit the features Tab and jump down to moond Doggy by all means Avail yourself of the imagery which really make the articles that much more interesting let's Jump Right In to see the Earth as it truly is small and blue and beautiful in that Eternal silence where it floats is to see ourselves as writers on the earth together Brothers on that bright loveliness in the Eternal cold brothers who know now that they are truly Brothers archal mcle skull and bonesman and Uncle of actor Bruce D reflecting on the alleged flight of Apollo 8 in the first of this series of posts I mentioned that the Apollo story was connected to the Laurel Canyon Story by way of a facility known as Lookout Mountain laboratory the intelligence community's top secret state-of-the-art film studio nestled high in the Hollywood Hills as it turns out there's another interesting connection as well during the span of precisely one month during the infamous summer of 1969 the Laurel Canyon and Apollo stories reached a simultaneous climax of sorts on July 16 1969 Apollo 11 the flight that would allegedly land men on the moon for the first time took flight 5 days later on July 21st Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldren allegedly first set foot on lunar soil 3 days later the trio of Apollo Astronauts triumphantly returned home to a hero's welcome a exactly one week later the first letter from the so-called Zodiac Killer was received by authorities 8 days after that on the night of August 8th 1969 Sharon Tate and four others were slaughtered in Roman pansy's Benedict Canyon home the next night Rosemary and Leno Lanka were carved up and their lost F's home all of these killings would later be attributed to Canyon regular Charlie Manson and his family less than a week after the killings some of lauro Canyon's Premier bands took stage at Woodstock to celebrate the other side of the canyon scene it was a time of supreme weirdness with extreme and very high-profile violence weaving its way through the flower power scenes both in Los Angeles and San Francisco while 234,000 Mi away squeaky clean astronauts Who Bore little resemblance to members of the Woodstock generation allegedly beamed back live footage from the Moon anyway I think when we left off we were discussing the highly improbable flight of Apollo 8 the very first manned launch of a Saturn V which took flight as I previously mentioned on the winter solstice of 1968 the mighty Apollo spacecraft which had failed on its last unmanned outing reportedly flew all the way to the Moon did tin quick laps around Earth's nearest neighbor and then flew back home with every one of its 9 million Parts performing flawlessly thanks for that was due in part according to the official Apollo Legend to a band of Surfers in Seal Beach North American Aviation you see had a bit of a problem with keeping the liquefied hydrogen and oxygen in the Saturn V second stage from boiling in the Florida Sun the proposed solution was to insulate the fuel tanks with honeycomb insulation but NASA's Engineers had trouble keeping keeping the insulation from popping back off the solution to that problem was to hire local Surfers who according to Moon machines brought with them a special skill set NASA claimed by the way to shoot for 99.9% accuracy in the manufacturer of its Apollo spacecraft which shouldn't have been a problem for a Workforce composed of Nazi rocket scientists bra seamstresses and Surfers even if that lofty goal had been attained however that would still have left 9,000 defective parts per launch vehicle or 6,000 if the figure of 6 million Parts is correct the first alleged live broadcast from the Moon came during Prime Time hours on Christmas Eve though I'm sure that was just a chance occurrence the three astronauts allegedly riding aboard Apollo 8 Frank Borman William Anders and the ever popular Jim level in what was buil as a purely spontaneous gesture took turns reading aloud 10 verses from The Book of Genesis which they followed up with quote good night good luck a Merry Christmas and God bless all of you all of you on The Good Earth the impeccable timing of the historic Apollo 8 broadcast reportedly heard by one of every four people on the planet would set a standard that would be adhered to by all subsequent Apollo flights the very first moonwalk by Neil and Buzz was broadcast live of course at 9:00 p.m. eastern time as though it were a Monday night football game Prime Time Moonwalks became a staple of the Apollo program to such an extent that it was not at all uncommon for the networks to be deluged with complaints when a popular weekly sitcom was preempted for yet another fake live moonwalk after the second fake moon landing NASA began adding exciting new elements to the Apollo missions to combat public apathy Apollo 13 of course added the element of danger Apollo 14 brought us the moon in Technicolor with the first color video broadcast Apollo 15 kept us entertained with the addition of a moon buggy and Apollo 17 featured the first and only spectacular night launch of a Saturn V rocket Apollo 8 was quickly followed by Apollo 9 which was originally scheduled to lift off on February 28th 1969 just two short months after the crew of Apollo 8 had splashed down luckily the water in Southern California is a little cold during the winter months and the waves aren't so good so the Surfers down in Seal Beach were probably able to put in lots of overtime to meet the demanding production schedule Apollo 9 was the first Saturn V flight to allegedly have a lunar module stowed away on board the mission allegedly featured the first docking Maneuvers with and the very first flight of a lunar module albeit in low earth orbit rather than in lunar orbit Apollo 9 was also allegedly the first flight who crewed on the newly designed Apollo platex space suits All Things Considered Apollo 99's 10-day flight in low earth orbit was largely had let down after the previous crew had allegedly flown all the way to the Moon in back and done so like true cowboys without the new magic suits there was one very odd thing though never mentioned in the official histories of a space program that happened during the flight of Apollo 9 while lounging in the Command Module unencumbered by space suits gloves and helmets with the luxury of being able to hold their NASA issue cameras in their hands the crew James mcdot David Scott and Rusty swier took photos of each other that are unfocused poorly composed and not particularly well exposed which is of course exactly the results that one would expect from amateur photographers using cameras that lack viewfinders however after those very same astronauts Dawn their suits gloves and helmets and then ventured out for a space walk making it rather difficult for them to stabilize themselves and therefore their cameras something truly wondrous and magical happened the crew of Apollo 9 suddenly gained the ability to shoot absolutely stunning compositions that look like they were professionally produced in a studio though it's hard to pick a favorite the one featuring the Earth's reflection perfectly framed in one of the actor's helmet visors is pretty impressive all of the astronauts on the future Apollo missions of course Prov themselves to be exceptional photographers as well but only when operating under the most difficult of conditions Neil Armstrong the very first photojournalist allegedly to work on the moon that most foreign of environments set the bar exceedingly high for those who were to follow H JP Arnold considered to be one of the world's foremost Authorities on Space photography before his death in June 2006 once set of the film magazine allegedly shot by Armstrong that sequence of images on the lunar surface taken mainly by Armstrong of course with that one camera that film I would say has never ever been bettered whether on the moon or subsequently almost every one of those relatively small number of images taken by Armstrong appear to be splendidly composed you remember the classic face on picture of Aldren with his visor reflecting the entire Landing scene the lunar module the flag the TV camera and Armstrong taking the picture reflected in the visor it's a marvelous picture some may argue that he clearly was not playing in the same league as say anel Adams but I beg to differ Adams created some all inspiring work to be sure but could he have done so while wearing his spuit gloves and helmet and with his camera mounted to his chest and while acclimating himself to an environment that featured no air greatly reduced gravity and extreme heat and cold I think not speaking of stage photos by the way take a look at the photo below allegedly shot on the Moon by the last men to set foot there the crew of the Apollo 17 Jean kernin Ronald Evans and Jack Schmidt it reminds me of something I've seen before possibly some type of symbol but I can't quite place it just 2 months after the return of Apollo 99 NASA sent Apollo 10 off to the Moon with Stafford John Young and Jean kernin on board the space agency obviously wanted to get the fake preliminary flights out of the way as quickly as possible so they can get onto the main event the launch Pace would slow considerably once the fake Landings began with the next flight Apollo 11 which blasted off just 7 weeks after the return of Apollo 10 Apollo 10 the third man launch of a Saturn V once again allegedly went to the moon this time with a lunar module mounted to the nose of the Command Module the Apollo 10 Mission allegedly included everything that later missions would experience short of actually landing on the lunar surface once allegedly in lunar orbit the lunar module was deployed and flown down fairly close to the surface before returning to and successfully docking with the command and service modules having endured the perilous initial launch and then the quar million mile flight to the Moon followed by the successful deployment and Flight of the LEM and having gotten to within passing distance of being the first men to create those historic first footprints on the moon it would naturally have been tempting to ignore mission control and set down for a quick stroll into history to prevent this according to the official mythology NASA diabolically short fueled the L for the Apollo 10 Mission there was of course no possibility that some unforeseen circumstances might have necessitated a use of that additional fuel or necessitated a landing on the moon which would have been a bit of a PR nightmare for the agency Walter kronite would have had to break the news to the American people the crew of Apollo 10 unexpectedly became the first men to set foot on the moon just moments ago and we have been promised live footage momentarily unfortunately their spacecraft was deliberately short fueled so they will not be able to make the return flight to dock with the mother ship and both astronauts will soon die this should make for some riveting TV though so stay tuned the last of the major Apollo contracts to be awarded was for the ever popular Luna Rovers AKA Moon buggies the initial idea for lunar vehicle is generally credited to verer Von Brun who envisioned a mobile pressurized lab weighing some four tons capable of carrying enough Provisions to keep two astronauts alive for up to 2 weeks the concept dub molab would have required the launch of a separate Saturday rocket so the idea was dropped as being too expensive although NASA seems to have had virtually inexhaustible supply of Saturn vs when the Apollo program was scrubbed NASA already had all the hardware built for flights 18 19 and 20 and had all the crews trained as well NASA supposedly gave up entirely on the idea of placing a vehicle on the moon but General Motors defense Research Laboratories purportedly soldiered on putting the company's own money into research and development of the vehicle as a story goes NASA told the team at GM that if they could somehow come up with a way of fitting an operation vehicle into an impossibly small lunar module equipment Bay the agency might consider incorporating the vehicle into future Apollo missions speaking of the lunar modules by the way I happened to stumble across the photo below of the lm's mighty descent engine which as can be clearly seen would have hardly taken up any room at all in the spacious spacecraft's descent stage its fuel tanks wouldn't have required much space either so there should have been plenty of room left to Stow a folding Doom buggy and a curiously empty equipment Bay below is a NASA approved photo of the Rover folded up and ready to pack into its assigned equipment Bay along with a photo of the folded Rover allegedly stowed away on an LM that has clearly seen better days and here's a brief video clip of the deployment of the folded Rover being demonstrated presumably at the manufacturing plan as can be clearly seen particularly in the video clip the Rover as initially deployed was far from complete it seems to be missing such things as a floor pan seats cameras antenna battery packs various other components which raises a few questions such as where were all the other r Parts stored how many empty equipment Bays were available to accommodate all the various Rover components and how long exactly did it take the astronauts given the limitation imposed by their suits and gloves to deploy and fully assemble a moon buggy GM's crafty R&D team led by project manager Sam romano and chief engineer fence pavlet supposedly came up with the Innovative folding Rover Concept in less than a month and in July of 1969 as Armstrong and Aldren were allegedly taking man's first steps on the moon GM was awarded the contract to design design and build the Rovers GM quickly teamed with Boeing and got to work with two significant challenges to overcome the first Rover must fit into the assigned Bay and the total weight was to be kept at a maximum of 400 lb also the team had to move from concept drawing to Mission ready Rover in just 17 months as with all other aspects of the Apollo program those lofty goals proved surprisingly easy to achieve by early 1971 GM and Boeing had already delivered their first mission ready Rover to NASA for final testing and approval on July 31st 1971 just two years after the contract had been awarded what remains to this day the only manned vehicle to allegedly land on an extraterrestrial body began kicking up moondust the finished product looked not unlike an earth-based dune buggy albeit with the unique ability to neatly fold away the vehicle featured simultaneous front and rear steering and steel mesh tires mounted on wheels that were each driven by their own separate Motors power was supposedly provided by an array of batteries mounted on the front end of the Rover since no one really knew what kind of vehicle would be required to drive on the moon early conception ual Rovers ran the gamut from vehicles with massively oversized Wheels to those propelled by tank-like tracks to archimedian screws that would be able to burrow through the lunar dust like mechanical moles luckily through extensive research and development the Apollo team was able to deduce exactly which design components would allow The Rovers to operate with maximum efficiency on the lunar terrain or so the story goes in reality the Rover team had obviously no time to do much at all in the way of research development and testing the Soviets on the other hand took the development of their Moon vehicle will very seriously seriously enough to spend an entire decade researching developing and relentlessly fine-tuning every aspect of their robotic Rover dubbed the Luna code the English translation of which is Michael Jackson uh wait a minute make that moon walker the Soviet Rover was an engineering Marvel that was outfitted with an array of both still and television cameras as well as a wide assortment of testing equipment including x-ray spectrometer x-ray telescope soil testing instruments an astro photometer a laser retro reflector a fluorescent spe reter and a magnetometer Luna code 2 deployed in January of 1973 some 37 years ago to this day holds the record of having traversed further on an extraterrestrial body about 23 Mi than any other robotic Rover considerably further than America's two Mars Pathfinder Vehicles combined so serious were the Soviets about testing their Rover that in the summer of 1968 they built a secret Luna Drome or a moon Drome in the remote Village of skoi spending some two acres the moon Drome featured craters up to 50 ft in diameter and fake lunar rocks of all shapes and sizes it would have been needless to say an excellent place to create fake moon photos and television footage though conventional wisdom of course holds that Soviet scientists and American scientists didn't play well together in those days it's hard though not to conclude that NASA basically appropriated the lunar rover research done by the Soviets as their own according to a French documentary tank on the moon the Soviets did indeed spend many long years researching all the various means of locomotion that NASA claimed to study as well well and after doing so Russian Engineers led by Alexander kerian who NASA later consulted with on its Pathfinder project came up with many of the same key design elements that would be utilized on NASA's Luna Rovers such as the mesh tires and the independently powered Wheels the Luna code Vehicles had eight wheels each with its own Independent Motor suspension and Brake The Rovers were driven by a fiveman team here on planet Earth using panoramic images beam back in real time to guide the robotic Vehicles the design team had developed a special lubricant that would perform in a vacuum and they had enclosed each wheel motor in a pressurized housing the vehicle's batteries recharged via collection of solar cells on the inside of the crafts lid which was kept open during the lunar day during The Frigid lunar night the Rover hibernated kept warm by an internal radioactive heat Source Luna code 1 sat down on the moon on November 17 1970 just a few months before NASA took possession of the first mission ready lunar rover when that first Rover allegedly arrived on the moon 8 months later in July of 1971 Luna code one was still traversing the lunar landscape and that concludes section 11 of wagging the moond doggy by David McGowan once again head to centerfor uninformed am.com hit the features tab scroll down to moond doggy and pick up with us look forward to catching you next time take care hello everyone welcome back today we'll be getting into Part 12 of wagging the moond doggy by Dave mcgallen let's Jump Right In as launch Windows open and close the next missions move forward two test flights on the lunar Landing vehicle and then the proposed landing on the moon and plans are in the making now which include flybys of other planets visits to what Dr Bunch calls Neighbors from debrief Apollo 8 a NASA promotional film circuit 1968 just a few weeks ago NASA administrator Charlie Balden boldly unveiled the agency's New Vision imagine trips to Mars that take weeks instead of nearly a year people Fanning out across the inner solar system exploring the moon asteroids and Mars nearly simultaneously in a steady stream of Firsts as quoted from launching a broader vision for NASA Los Angeles Times February 2nd 2010 balin's ambitious Proclamation was intended to put a positive spin on NASA's acknowledgement that the constellation program which taxpayers have already reportedly shelled out at least $9 billion for and which will reportedly cost another 2.5 billion to cancel has been tossed on the scrap heat according to Balden things weren't really going that well anyway currently Balon said the 5-year-old constellation program is burning through billions of dollars and falling further behind schedule the program couldn't get American astronauts back to the Moon until at least 2028 so as much as we would not like it to be the case the truth is that we were not on a path to get back to the moon's surface Balden said taking into account that the constellation program was begun in 2005 and that the Apollo program allegedly landed men on the moon in a mere 8 years it would appear that it wouldn't actually take twice as long to get back to the Moon with today's technology as previously advertised but would actually take at least three times as long if that is we were able to man up and follow through with the plan which obvious obviously isn't going to happen but be assured that that's only because we don't have the money otherwise we totally would have made it back to the Moon possibly in less than 20 years by which time all the technology that we know in love today will be as obsolete as pagers and betamax video recorders and trips to the moon will still be something that we only talk about sometimes nostalgically as we finally recall the fabled Glory Days from a decade few will remember and sometimes with an eye to the Future an of Promise future that never seems to arrive in May of 1966 after spending 5 years working on the follow project we were just a year and a half away from the launch of the first Saturn V in 2010 after spending 5 years working on the constellation project NASA has nothing to present us but a hefty bill which just goes to show that that lack of technological sophistication and spaceflight experience can apparently be easily overcome with a little determination and a couple of rolls of duct tape I was thinking by the way that if the idea of an Apollo reenactment were properly pitched to the right reality television producers we could probably make it back to the Moon in just a year or so there was quite a bit of Apollo Hardware that was left over after the sudden demise of the program much of which is now in various Aerospace museums and Aerospace museums tend to be run by Aerospace Geeks Who would like nothing more than to see the US triumphantly return to the Moon it shouldn't be that hard then to convince them to donate that hardware for it to be put to use for the purpose that it was originally intended to serve we're going to need to assemble all our donated Hardware of course and for that we can turn to the guys at Monster Garage who should be able to slap it together for us in a couple of afternoons there will undoubtedly be some missing Andor non-operational Parts but that shouldn't slow things down much we can just give the guys over at American Pickers a call and they can scour Americans back roads to find the parts we need or reasonable facemile once our reconstituted Saturn V is launched ready we'll need to select a crew and the most obvious choice needless to say would be Bear Grills and his cameraman with the moonwalk footage broadcast as a special edition of man versus Moon unlike girly men like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldren bear would undoubtedly show us a few tricks that the Apollo gang never thought of like fashioning a shelter out of moon rocks foraging for the food and water that others failed to find building a roaring fire despite the lack of both air and combustible materials and finding several new and creative uses for the urine bags that his predecessors tossed aside as Space trash he could also probably design and build his own lunar rover from Parts salvaged from artifacts of the Soviet Luna program and he could probably do it all without the need of a space suit speaking of space suits just a week before NASA canned the constellation program the agency announced that it had awarded a contract to Oceaneering International and the David Clark company to design and build a brand new state-of-the-art space suit for use on future Mann missions to the moon and Beyond and this is from an article entitled NASA's next space suit published in technology review January 25th 2010 if NASA returns to the Moon in 2020 as planned astronauts will step out in a brand new space suit it will give them new mobility and flexibility on the lonar surface while still protecting them from its harsh environment the space agency has awarded a $500 million 6 and 1/2 year contract for the design and development of the constellation space suit astronauts performing Evas these days currently used something known as the extra vehicular Mobility unit it has a hard upper torso layers of material to protect astronauts from micrometeoroids and radiation a temperature regulation system and its own life support and communication system the Emu weighs over 300 lb and has limited leg Mobility astronauts feet are normally locked in place on foot restraints while performing extra vehicular tasks and during Apollo missions which used the different emun suit astronauts were forced to develop a bunny hop to Traverse the lunar surface I could of course point out once again the absurdity of it taking about four times as long to develop a space suit now than it did back in the high-tech 1960s but I'm pretty sure I've already beat that particular horse to death I could also point out that the Apollo suits somehow managed to perform all of the duties of the current emus while weighing about 40% less but that's also taken a pretty severe beating so instead I'll focus on the contention that the Apollo Astronauts were quote forced to develop a bunny hop to Traverse the lunar surface which as an alert reader pointed out flies in the face of numerous claims in which it was maintained that the quote Bunny Hop was found to be the most effective means of locomoting in a reduced gravity environment not that it was something forced upon the astronauts by the limitations of the space suits if I remember correctly one of the MythBusters propagandists claimed that he had verified that it was the most efficient means of moving in reduced gravity and he was by his own admission wearing a costume and not a pressurized spacit when he conducted his experiment someone it would appear is doing a little lying here I am needless to say as shocked as all of you when we went to the moon the first time we were just trying to get there now astronauts need to be able to explore the surface Harvest resources and do science says Daniel Barry vice president of research and development at David Clark company and head of the constellation space suit project so the Apollo missions it turns out were just about getting there and the reason I guess why we allegedly flew men to the Moon eight times including the alleged flybys by Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 was to prove that getting there the first time was no fluke sure we were told that the boys were sent there to do science and that they took a a bunch of scientific testing equipment and even on the last flight an actual scientist but that apparently wasn't really the case and the lunar Rovers allegedly flown to the moon were not brought along to enable the astronauts to quote explore the surface and conduct additional science projects this time however we're going to do it right in another 20 plus years that is if we FastTrack it what resources by the way are we planning to quote Harvest we've already allegely brought back numerous samples of moon rocks which appears to be about the only resource readily available other than the water n now Claims can be found there how much does it suck by the way for NASA to have to cancel the constellation program right after the agency had reported allegedly discovering loads of water on the moon one debunker claim that has been made Fairly frequently over the years it should be noted is that NASA's alleged moon rocks contain no traces of water proving that they are not of Earthly origin and could have only come from the surface of a waterless sphere like the moon which isn't NASA now claims waterless I have no doubt that those same debunkers will be able to come up with some convoluted hack explanation for the apparent discrepancy pictured below is the evolution of the American space suit from left to right in the top row are the Mercury suit in 1961 the Gemini suit in 1965 and the pre-ex Apollo suit 1968 and the lower row of the famous Apollo magic suit in 1969 the first space shuttle suit in 1981 and the new suit being produced for the now defunct constellation program below that believe it or not is an early prototype Apollo suit while it may appear to be a still from some 1950s sci-fi flick or a computer generated artist conception it is in fact an actual suit being tested in the Mojave Desert in the mid1 1960s pretty safe to assume that it didn't pass the test another thing Bear Grills would undoubtedly do is bring us back some of those dazzling lunar starscapes that the Apollo guys neglected to capture presented below by the way as one of NASA's former astronomy picks of the day and it's linked here it carried with it the following explanation quote if you could turn off the atmosphere is a to scatter overwhelming sunlight today's daytime sky might look something like this below that is a shot from deep space illustrating that stars in outer space Maybe aren't really as camera shy as some would like us to believe according to Balden NASA had quote focused so much of our effort and funding on just getting to the Moon we were neglecting Investments required to go beyond so while we still don't have the money required to get us back to the Moon you see we do have the money to bypass the moon and fight our guys to more distant locals like Mars no Target data been set but I'm guessing that if we focus our attention on these Bolder objectives we'll probably succeed by like 2050 or maybe 2060 or 2069 on the 100th anniversary of the first alleged moonlanding as will be recalled we set our sights a little higher in the 1960s when Kennedy delivered his famous declaration back in May of 1961 that we were going to the Moon he gave the Aerospace Community less than a decade to make it happen Engineers across the country who were well aware of the fact that the nation hadn't even taken its first baby steps yet were understandably dismayed the first Apollo contract was awarded just 2 months later in July of 1961 for the sophisticated navigation system that would allegedly guide the spacecraft to the Moon in an unusual move NASA opted not to solicit bids for the guidance system instead the contract was handed directly to MIT generating immediate controversy as noted by Moon machines quote there was actually a budding industry out there that had developed guidance systems and people from industry were quite upset they felt that they should have been given the chance to bid on the contract and a un is not ordinarily what the government contracts out to build hardware for operational systems there was alas nothing ordinary about the Apollo project the man NASA turned to First long before awarding any of the other Apollo contracts was one Charles dra who ran mit's instrumentation lab which would later carry Draper's name Draper was generally described as an eccentric charismatic colorful gent whose background was in physics and curiously psychology he is widely considered to be the father of the inertial guidance system perhaps significantly Bill casing the first Apollo skeptic to gain prominence has claimed that it was MIT in conjunction with DARPA that provided NASA with the blueprint for how to plausibly simulate man trips to the Moon if true then it of course makes perfect sense that NASA would have turned directly and immediately to MIT and would have done so without taking any outside bids until MIT completed their work and provided the space agency with an outline of the project it would seem Nessa wouldn't have known what other contracts to award the fact that the project landed on the desk of Charles Draper is perhaps significant given that the name is a rather notorious one in 20th century American history and one that is closely tied to the name Bush it is a name that appears more than once on the membership list of everyone's favorite Society skull and bones is a name that was prominently featured in the American Eugenics movement with General William Draper Jr serving as the founder and chairman of the population crisis committee and vice chairman of the birth control league as planned parenthood was originally known General Draper a close friend of the Bush family also helped finance the 1932 International Eugenics conference many years later during the Apollo era Draper revised LBJ on population reduction strategies the Draper family was also not too shockingly involved in the financing and maintenance of the Nazi regime General Draper joined Dylan Reed in 1927 and for many years was tasked with personally handling the account of Nazi industrialist and financier britz Tyson at the close of World War II Draper was appointed chief of the economic division of the joint Allied control Council for Germany he was in other words the man who was was supposed to oversee the economic densification of Germany just months later in October 1945 Draper reported that the German economy had magically been denotified needless to say nothing could have been further from the truth one final note about General Draper whose son bonesman William Draper III served as the chief of fundraising for George Bush's 1980 presidential campaign he was a member of the Society of American Magicians in other words William Draper Jr considered himself to be something of an expert in the art of Illusion according to Mo machines Draper and his team got to work on the Apollo guidance system in the spring of 1962 given that Moon machines also contends that the contract was awarded to MIT in early summer of 1961 the question that is naturally begged is why with the clock ticking and with an absurdly short time frame to pull the Apollo project together would the MIT team have waited almost a year to get started or did they in fact spend the first year working on their real assignment mapping out the key elements of the simulation if so then they apparently spent a fair amount of time viewing an obscure German silent film by the name of defra Imon the woman in the moon as noted in the painfully long documentary what happened on the moon the German feature film released by filmmaker Fritz Lang in 1929 provided the blueprint for the heavily ritualized launch procedures that were adopted for the Apollo program as can be seen in the screen caps below all of the elements were there the unnecessary vertical construction of the spaceship and especially built Hangar the grand opening of the massive hanger doors the excruciating slow roll out of the upright rocket ship from The Hanger to the Launchpad the rockus crowds watching the spectacle live the now ubiquitous countdown even the shedding of the two stages of the ship in other words the only elements of the performance that the public ever actually witnessed were all lifted directly from a 40-year-old silent film Fritz Lang's technical adviser on the film was Airman oberth considered to be one of the three founding fathers of rocketry assisting oberth on the film Project according to the previously quoted Time Life Book to the moon was one of his brightest students 19-year-old verer Von Bron a decade and a half later oberth and Von brn would be scooped up through the paperclip project and brought to America to work on among other things the Apollo program whose choreography just happened to very closely match that of the fake Moon launch oberth and Von brn had crafted 40 years earlier def FR IM by the way is not the only FR Lang film that proved to be rather prophetic he followed it up in 1931 with M the tale of a sadistic pedophilic serial killer Guided by Voices in his head I wonder how he came up with that plot line before moving on I should probably point out here that yet another Brazen lie the debunkers like to tell the one that holds Von Brun was only a Nazi because he had little choice in the matter what with living and working in Germany during the days of the third ranol that's a nice little Fable but it is contradicted in a big Way by at least one known photograph in which Von Bron can be seen adorned in the elite Nazi regalia of the black order of the SS anyway returning to MIT the starting point for engineers was to develop a gyroscope based guidance system the problem though was that the Gyros could not be produced to mit's exacting standards resulting in gyro after gyro being rejected another problem was that translating data from the Gyros into flight instructions would require as Moon machines noted a modern digital computer and putting such a beast in a spaceship was an entirely new challenge computers in the early 1960s you see were huge the idea of squeezing such a monster into a spacecraft seemed Preposterous but that wasn't really going to be a problem since as we've already seen clearing seemingly insurmountable obstacles was something that the Aerospace Community was uniquely skilled at in the 1960s the engineers working on the onboard computer utilized an entirely new technology known as the Silicon chip the technology was so new though that no one knew what it could actually do and as with the Gyros it proved to be nearly impossible to produce chips of acceptable quality at the time quote software was virtually an unknown concept as Moon machines duly reported with nobody clear on exactly what the computer should do the software Engineers were free to write about almost anything they like one of those flight software Developers Alex kosala made the following remarkable admission there were no specs we made it up and it's always been amazing to me why was I allowed to program something that hadn't even been specified but that would be critical in assuring the success of the whole Apollo program I couldn't believe it but that's the way it was we made it up as we went along I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that NASA probably wasn't unduly concerned since the functioning of the software would only have mattered if the agency was planning to actually send guys to the moon the most complicated aspect of the Apollo missions was the landing of the lunar modules which made the software program controlling that part of the mission the most difficult to design amazingly though that aspect of the software design was not assigned until after most of the other programs were 2third complete and it was assigned to a 22-year-old jent named Don ises who had just recently started his very first job according to Moon machines quote the program without which it would be impossible to land on the moon had been written almost as an afterthought by a junior engineer by mid 1966 Draper's team of controlling the entire Mission via an onboard computer had been dropped in favor of an earth-based control system with a draper system along as a backup MIT allegedly produced a computer the size of a small fridge which both the Command Module and the lunar module were outfitted with despite the overwhelming obstacles faced by the MIT team and a seemingly lacad isical approach taken with the project the Apollo giden system as would be expected performed nearly flawlessly on every outing one final note here on Def Imon before wrapping up this installment The Gatekeepers over at the bout Forum appear to be in on the joke and that's baut Forum why else would the site's logo contain not an image of the NASA lunar module sitting on the surface of the Moon but rather a rocket ship that looks suspiciously like the spaceship from Lang's film and that concludes Part 12 of wagging the moond doggy thank you as always for joining me jump over to Center forign informed am.com hit the features tab jump down to moondoggy uh we only have two more sections left and we'll wrap this one up so as always thank you once again for joining me I look forward to catching you next time take care hello everyone welcome back today we're going to pick up in part 13 of wagging the moond doggy by David McGowan head over to Center for informed america.com scroll down the page a little bit click on moond doogy and feel free to pick up with us right here in part 13 let's Jump Right In it's a journey we can't repeat with today's technology but in 1969 a group of astronauts risked everything to walk on the moon when we left Earth Discovery Channel 2010 let's start this final for now at least Apollo installment off with a quintet of extremely rare previously unreleased Apollo Mission photos in the top row from left to right we get a good view of the sophisticated gyroscopic navigation system followed by a shot of Neil Armstrong about to step out of the capsule to take those historic first steps on the moon and then an eerily familiar shot of a camera set up on a fake lunar surface in front of a fake lunar backdrop in the bottom row we learned that an explosion in the ship's oxygen tank has seriously threatened the mission of Apollo 13 the preceding images are of course yet more screen caps lifted from def amand that remarkably precious silent film that featured the work of technical consultants who would later work on the Apollo missions the same missions that quote we can't repeat with today's technology though I'm assuming that we could probably put together much better simulations America's first Spacemen the Mercury 7 astronauts weighed an average of just 164 lb each they were nevertheless considered full- grown men the average three man Apollo crew therefore probably weighed in at just under 500 lb nowadays that same three-man crew would probably weigh in it closer to 800 lb in addition they would probably take roughly twice the volume of food and water rations that were needed in the 1960s and much larger feal collection bags speaking of feal collection bags by the way buzz and Neil reportedly left a few of those behind at the fabled Tranquility base I mentioned that bit of trivia only because those bags now are and as hard as it may be to believe this is absolutely true well on their way to being declared National historic landmarks the state of California ever the trend Setter got the ball rolling in January by declaring those excrement bags to be State quote historical resources four more states are expected to follow suit by Year's End due to International treaties declaring that no country can lay claim to real estate on the moon you see Tranquility base itself cannot be declared a Historic Landmark so California's historical Resources Commission in its Infinite Wisdom decided to declare that all the artifacts allegedly Left Behind are now quote historical resources this is said to be a first step towards the site being declared a national landmark and ultimately a United Nations world heritage site the list of protected artifacts includes specifically human excrement bags seriously as read in an article entitled Apollo 11 excrement claimed as historic by California tech.com January 29th 2010 the concern it is claimed is that future lunar explorers either from other nations or on privately funded missions will run rough shot over the Historic Site looting the valuable artifacts the message California wants to send to such potential Hol an is that bringing home a souvenir sack of astronaut dung will be treated just as harshly as say snapping off a piece of the Great Barrier Reef so if someone reading this should have the Good Fortune to be the first space tourist to visit Tranquility base please do the right thing and cordon off the area maybe post a few signs informing people of the status of the artifacts and as tempting as it may be please refrain from bringing home a bag of astronaut dung as a souvenir as the state of California realizes the astronaut dung was left there so that it could be enjoyed by everyone and while it would undoubtedly look good on your fire Place mantle feal matter is best viewed in its natural habitat just as buzz and Neil left it I'm also pretty sure by the way that this is the first time that a movement has been underway to bestow historical landmark status upon a site that existed only in our minds and on TV screens should our next goal be to have Mayberry declared as a un world heritage site in other news Aldren is in full agreement with NASA's plan to scrap the constellation program and focus on low earth orbit flights with an eye to sending men to Mars at some unspecified time in the future according to buzz who couldn't see stars from the Moon which may be why he didn't have much luck dancing with them quote getting long range space flight right requires getting near Earth orbit perfect just as deep sea exploration began with practice in our loral Waters a successful Mars mission begins with neear orbit testing to get to the final stage we must Perfect all that we'll need for the journey from an article entitled trading the moon for Mars New York Times February 25th 2010 the first question that comes to my mind obviously is when did Aldren I'll paraphrase become concerned about such things we obviously didn't have low earth orbit anywhere near perfect in 1969 but that didn't stop him from allegedly blasting off to the Moon which I would think would qualify as a long range space flight and exactly how much neear orbit testing will be required to Perfect all that they'll need for the Journey Back In The Good Old Apollo days if I recall correctly we didn't need to send so much as a single man Saturn V into low earth orbit before allegedly sending one all the way to the Moon Buzz's old sidekick as it turns out begs to differ according to space.com Armstrong blasted NASA's new plans for future space exploration the United States is risking losing its role as a leader in space exploration with its new plan Armstrong said adding that he was concerned with the looming Gap in American human space flight fellow Apollo Astronauts Jim level and Eugene kernin are also unhappy with the change of Direction speaking before a senate subcommittee kernin had this to say quote we Armstrong level and myself have come to the unanimous conclusion that this budget proposal presents no challenges has no focus and is in fact a blueprint for a mission to no whereare from Obama's new space plan poorly advised May 12 2010 kernin and his fellow Apollo Astronauts needless to say know a little more than the rest of us do about taking a mission to nowhere and now with that out of the way let's turn our attention to UFOs and aliens the Flying Saucer kind which figure rather prominently in some Apollo conspiracy theories one such Theory holds that we did indeed make it to the moon in the 1960s only to encounter either active alien colonies or artifacts of past alien colonies as a The Story Goes we were either scared off or warned off and have therefore never returned these theories generally hold that the early Apollo missions succeeded but that the later ones had to be faked because we were you know scared to go back and piss off the aliens we can only hope by the way that the moon's resident aliens had little interest in human feal matter and have therefore left buzz and Neil's historical resources untouched the other predominant alien Theory which often appears hand in hand with the first seems to be that we did indeed make it to the moon but not with the ridiculous Hardware of the Apollo program that was all for show you see to cover up the real technology that was used which invariably is said to be the technology that was retro engineered from the recovered alien spacecraft that Moulder and Scully kept hidden out at Area 51 both theories in other words posit that we did indeed send men to the Moon though the home audience was lied to about the details of the missions specifically how we got there and or what we found there some of these theories go so far as to say that there are artifacts of alien colonies on Mars as well and or that Mars has already been secretly colonized by us earthlings one of president Eisenhower's granddaughters for example has been making the rounds lately claiming that she was targeted for some sort of ongoing Mars colonization project involving all kinds of exotic technology that is in the hands of various secret societies or something like that the details aren't really important many of the folks who tell such Tales also like to claim that it was NASA itself that seeded into the conspiracy literature the notion that we never made it to the moon better for the Skeptics in the crowd to buy into that scenario so The Story Goes than to figure out the truth that our moon has been taken over by hostile aliens or whatever other equally dubious alien Theory it is that is being promoted to anyone with a working brain of course it should be perfectly obvious that it is actually the opposite that is true that it is in fact the alien theories that pose the least threat to the status quo for two rather obvious reasons first the alien theories generally hold that we did actually send men to the moon so they pose no direct challenge to the core lie of the Apollo program additionally these theories contain deliberately outlandish elements that are designed to marginalize conspir theories and drive most sane people away from not only Apollo theories but from the entire field of conspiracy literature anyone who has spent time in the conspiracy trenches should recognize a very obvious pattern and one which is certainly not unique to Apollo a substantial body of solid research on what really happened on September 11th 2001 for example has been tainted by the deliberate introduction of such inanities as pod planes Holograms and particle beam weapons compelling evidence of the existing of elite International pedophile rings on the other hand has been marginalized by blending in stories of shape-shifting alien human hybrids And So It Goes while we're on the subject of aliens I'm sure that it was just a coincidence that Eric vond donin's Chariot of the Gods was released just a month before the alleged Apollo moonlanding and then relentlessly promoted into runaway bestseller status chariots and its sequels have reportedly sold in excess of 60 million copies the book which purported to present evidence of alien visitations in days of yor firmly planted two ideas in the minds of many readers the first being longrange space travel was not only possible but it already occurred and the second that aliens were already around us keeping an eye on the planet interestingly enough some of America's illustrious astronauts have themselves seated the literature with alien Tales not many of them to my knowledge has ever endorsed the notion of alien colonies on the moon but they have certainly added fuel to that fire by dropping Illusions to UFO sightings our old friend Buzz Aldren most notoriously has claimed that Apollo 11 was tailed all the way to the Moon by a UFO why do you suppose it is by the way that the debunker crowd seems to have little to say about the UFO Tales told by American astronauts after all these very same debunkers nearly go into cardiac arrest whenever a conspiracy theorist such as myself either implicitly or explicitly calls into question the integrity and honesty of America's viral astronauts but if we're supposed to accept as truth everything that they have to say about their alleged lunar missions then doesn't that mean that we necessarily need to embrace their claims about UFOs those stories are after all part of the package if the debunkers are so sure that our astronauts can be trusted to tell us the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth then why do the debunker sites not trumpet the existence of UFOs that were allegedly witnessed by their knights in Magic space suits let's back up now to 1962 to review a bastard stepchild of the US space program known as operation Fishbowl which was without a doubt one of the most ill-conceived operations ever undertaken by the Brain Trust in Washington in a nutshell Fishbowl was a series of rocket launches aimed at detonating nuclear weapons at high altitudes why Washington is rather koi about that but I'm sure that they had perfectly valid reasons for conducting high altitude nuke tests a number of the Rockets powering those flights failed one quite spectacularly and devastatingly four of the launches succeeded in reaching altitude and detonating but those successes came at a price as we shall see most of the WarHeads were mounted on Thor Rockets similar to the one pictured below all were launched from Johnston island in the Pacific because we've always found buic islands in the Pacific to be really good places to do nuke testing the first Warhead code named bluegill was launched on June 2nd 19 62 but the radar tracking system failed and with no way to verify the Rocket's trajectory it had to be destroyed in Flight the second Warhead starfish took flight on June 19 1962 but the rocket failed after burning for just under a minute and the craft once again had to be destroyed in Flight missile debris some of it radioactive rained down on the island and the surrounding Waters couple of guys were dispatched with brooms and dust pens and the project was quickly resumed the next launch on July 9 1962 was the first to succeed it was also According to some theorists the one that was supposed to accomplish a key goal of the program blasting a hole through the Van Allen radiation belts to hopefully allow for a safe passage of the Apollo spacecraft starfish prime a 1.4 Megaton nuclear warhead detonated at an altitude of about 250 Mi if theorists are correct about the prime objective the test failed miserably instead of punching a hole through the belts the blast actually created an additional man-made radiation belt it also damaged as many as nine US and Soviet Satellites six of which failed within months of the test and it caused electrical Dam damage in nearby Hawaii the next attempted launch which was apparently undertaken because as should be obvious the program was going so well failed on the Launchpad and the Thor rocket exploded causing extensive radioactive contamination of the area as well as the destruction of the Launchpad the spectacular failure of bluegill Prime on July 25th 1962 necessitated a brief break the launches resumed on October 15 1962 with a third attempt to launch the bluegill Warhead that test bluegill double Prime failed when the rocket went into a serious tumble not long after taking flight it was once again destroyed in Flight next up was Checkmate Just 4 days later Checkmate detonated at an altitude of about 91 Mi considerably lower than the previous success and with a smaller payload the next launch was the fourth attempt of the bluegill triple prime not many years later of course we would get much better at that whole rocket launching thing despite the fact that the Saturn B's F1 engines were notoriously unstable eliminating the need for such flights as for example Apollo 12 Prime bluegill triple prime detonated on October 25th 1962 at an altitude of only 30 Mi I think we can probably all agree that getting an unmanned rocket to an altitude of 30 mi in just four attempts at the very same time that the manned Mercury missions were allegedly attaining low earth orbit on every launch was quite a stunning achievement in any event the last of the Fishbowl launches was on November 1st 1962 dubbed Kingfish and it detonated about twice the altitude of the previous blast and so ended a largely forgotten corollary of the US Space Program moving on I happen to stumble upon a couple of fascinating articles on space.com and by fascinating I mean that they unintentionally rais questions about the legitimacy of the Apollo missions as so frequently happens whenever NASA types talk about going back to the Moon in one of the Articles we find Michael Wargo identified as the chief lunar scientist for exploration systems at NASA headquarters contemplating a return trip to the moon quote none of our space suits we currently have would be appropriate for that extreme of an environment says Wargo any materials built for earthlike temperatures won't work on the moon they don't bend anymore they fracture and they fracture brittly and so everything gets extremely brittle at those temperatures from an article entitled water Discovery fuels hope to colonize the moon November 13 2009 and so we discover that there is yet another piece of 1960s technology that has now fallen into an all-consuming black hole non- brittle materials from which the fashion space suits suitable for lunar exploration back in the day it will be recalled platex is bra seam knew a thing or two about stitching together a non-brittle space suit in the same article Jack Burns of the center for astrophysics and space astronomy at the University of Colorado Boulder and director of the lunar University Network for astrophysics research claimed that quote we only went to the moon six times and we didn't even go to the most interesting places on the moon there's so much more to discover about the moon just from a scientific perspective what it can tell us about the formation of the earth so what's that story again that the debunkers like to tell about there being no compelling reason to go quote back to the vast Wasteland that is the moon who am I supposed to believe here the guy with all the fancy academic titles or the guys whose primary area of expertise seems to be mastering the art of self- flagellation the other article from space.com details yet more of the Lost technology of the 1960s quot though Engineers are well on their way to preparing us for life on the Moon some major issues have yet to be resolved something we'll have to consider is radiation zackney with honeybee robotics anasa contractor said quote we can close ourselves in habitats but radiation protection requires a lot of shielding we cannot solve this problem yet radiation can kill us Moon dwellers will also have to contend with the ubiquitous dust on the surface of the Moon which gets into everything and can wear down joints and connectors and prevent sailing off doors it also poses health risks to people as it can cause breathing difficulties and is difficult to filter out of habitats from how to build lunar homes from Moon dirt September 3rd 2008 the radiation problem has already been covered both here and elsewhere so let's focus instead once again on the dust problem as previously discussed NASA nowadays acknowledges that dealing with lunar dust will require the development of sophisticated new technology no explanation has been provided of course for why the Apollo Astronauts didn't have any problems with the dust despite allegedly venturing out on multiple Evas during their alleged missions during the alleged Apollo 17 mission for example our fearless astronaut supposedly took the moon buggy out on three separate occasions returning each time by their own accounts covered from head to toe in moond dust which they necessarily would have brought back into the lunar module with them and then ultimately transferred to the Command Module when the supposed docking later took place why then is there no mention in the Apollo literature of any health problems arising from this or of any problems with the delicate instrumentation or of any problems with the door seals if it is quote difficult to filter out of habitats even with the technology we possess today then how were we able to do it 40 plus years ago the debunker crowd despite loudly proclaiming that they have thoroughly debunked every conspiracy claim that has ever been made has had nothing to say on this issue I wonder why that is seriously I really do wonder why that is it would be understandable if there were some requirement that their debunkings have some actual Merit but their body of quote work clearly demonstrates that they are not bound by any such restrictions so the silence is a bit puzzling before signing off there's one final point that needs to be addressed here one that has been on my mind since first undertaking this series it's generally claimed as previously noted that getting to the Moon from low earth orbit is a relatively straightforward procedure you simply accelerate enough to slingshot out of low earth orbit thus escaping Earth's gravitational pull and then just sort of freef fall to the Moon firing the engines every now and then to make minor course adjustments that all sounds just fine in theory until you take a step back and realize that the moon itself is a satellite of the earth held in place by you guessed it Earth's gravitational attraction so I guess the obvious question that is begged here is when exactly is it when traveling from the Earth to the Moon that one leaves Earth's orbit the answer quite obviously is never Earth's gravitational pole would obviously get progressively weaker the farther out one ventured but Common Sense dictates that it wouldn't just abruptly end once you got Beyond low earth orbit indeed an article that appeared in various newspapers not long ago noted that the satellites that enable GPS devices to work orbit the Earth at an altitude of roughly 12,000 mi 11,800 mi Beyond low earth orbit and yet they are miraculously enough still held in place by Earth's gravity and there have been no reported cases of one of them suddenly freef falling to the Moon there would come a time during a journey to the moon when that body's own gravitational attraction would be stronger than that of the Earth but given the relative masses of the two bodies the time wouldn't come until the tail end of the trip you could conceivably freef fall most of the way back but you would first of course have to actually get there I guess what I'm trying to say here is that I'm not really buying into the claim that you wouldn't need much fuel to get to the moon after reaching low earth orbit logic would seem to dictate that the path to the Moon would not be the largely linear one that we've been sold on but rather a series of steadily increasing circles probably ellipses actually requiring the expenditure of considerable amounts of fuel perhaps that is the reason why the space shuttle has never done a lunar flyby or left low earth orbit for any other reason of course there are also the problems posed by space radiation and extreme temperatures and micr meteorites and re-entry and and that's the end of part 13 of wagging the moond doggy by Dave mallan jump over to centerfor and informed america.com to scroll down the page a bit click on moond do feel free to pick up with us visit the books tab or click on donate to make a donation to support us work thank you once again for joining me look forward to catching you next time take care hello everyone welcome back today we're going to jump into part 14 the final installment of wagging the moon doggy by David mallan as always you can find the article over at centerfor andin america.com thank you once again for joining me on this series I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have let's jump right into to Part 14 I know I know a lot of you were expecting and have been waiting somewhat patiently for and have probably even been promised a new installment of the Laurel Canyon series and I will readily admit that I did say that with the launch of the last Apollo installment that I was done with this topic for now but how was I supposed to know that just 4 months after that launch it would be announced albeit so quietly that most of us probably missed it that we will be boldly taking another stab at sending men to the Moon as I noted in the last Apollo post whenever NASA types talk about going back to the Moon they invariably seem to unintentionally ra questions about the legitimacy of the Apollo missions and sure enough the boys over at Lockheed Martin one of NASA's longtime partners in crime certainly didn't let me down in that regard with this latest proposal I should probably first clarify here that the proposed missions are not so ambitious as to actually involve landing on the moon no these proposed missions involve merely flying to the moon's far side and then sort of hanging out in lunar orbit for a couple of weeks in other words all of the most technologically demanding aspects of the alleged Apollo missions like actually landing on the moon surviving on the moon Moon lifting off from the Moon and docking while in lunar orbit have been eliminated even these far less ambitious missions of course won't actually happen but let's play along while space.com space Insider columnist Leonard David fills us in on what we have to look forward to in a piece entitled Mission proposed to send astronauts to the moon's Far Side November 23rd 2010 quote while NASA has officially given up its plans to send humans back to the surface of the Moon anytime soon a contractor is proposing a mission to send a crew to a state stary spot in orbit Over The Far Side of Earth's neighbor loed Martin has begun pitching an L2 far side mission using its Orion spacecraft under development the Earth Moon L2 lrange point is where the combined gravity of the Earth and the moon allows a spacecraft to hover over one spot and be synchronized with the moon in its orbit around the Earth from a Halo orbit around that L2 point a crew would control robots on the lunar surface teleoperated science tasks include snagging Rock specimens for return to Earth from the moon's South Pole aen basin one of the largest deepest and oldest craters in the solar system as well as deploy a radio telescope array on the far side everybody got all that sounds pretty easy doesn't it after all the bar has been set substantially lower than it was in the Glorious 1960s when we easily mastered such things as Landing men on the moon walking on the moon driving dune buggies on the moon and playing golf on the moon nevertheless there are some potential problems just as there are as is usually the case some aspects of these proposed missions that directly contradict the ENT though slightly insane belief that we sent men to the Moon back in the days when telephones were heavy enough to be used as lethal weapons let's begin with one of the stated benefits of these proposed missions as listed in a loed Martin white paper and laid out by Daniel Bates of UK's Daily Mail in an article entitled astronauts to be sent to The Far Side of the Moon for the first time in 40 years in premar Mission November 25th 2010 quote both NASA and Lockheed Martin would also have the chance to address the problem of a higher re-entry speed which is accumulated on trips farther away from the earth there they go again pretending as though we've never done this before already we've heard from the NASA types about how we haven't yet solved the radiation problem and how we haven't yet developed SPAC suit materials capable of withstanding the temperature extremes on the moon and how we haven't yet solved the problem of how to deal with all that lunar dust and now we find that we apparently also haven't yet worked out how to deal with the fact that spacecraft returning from the Moon would have to survive much higher re-entry speeds than spacecraft returning from low earth orbit and I'm guessing that we also might have a problem with control in the all important re-entry angle at this point I'm really beginning to wonder if there isn't any of that classic 1960s space technology that hasn't been lost another problem arises from the proposed duration and timeline of the missions according to space.com quote each flight would prove out the Orion capsules life support systems for one month duration missions later in the same article we find that on each Mission our fearless astronauts quote would orbit the L2 point for about 2 weeks it would appear then that Lockheed and NASA are allowing a full two weeks to travel to and from the Moon which would be all well and good were it not for the obvious fact that it's roughly twice the time that it took for the mighty Apollo craft to allegedly get to the moon in back the 1960s was as some will surely recall the era of muscle cars so perhaps it was the era of muscle spaceships as well but since we have now apparently sacrificed raw power in favor of fuel economy I guess today's spaceships just don't burn Rubber like the spacecraft of the wild and woly 1960s though there is I suppose an alternative explanation the last 40 Years of space research has taught us that it would actually take twice as long to get to the moon as was believed back when we faked the Apollo flights according to Josh Hopkins of Lockheed Martin in order to achieve the company's not so lofty goal of sending men out to orbit the Moon the company's human spaceflight Advanced programs division has quote come up with a sequence of missions that they've named Stepping Stones which begins with flights in low earth orbit and incrementally builds Lockheed views the first Orion missions as quote feasible by 2016 to 2018 really need to belabor the point that back in the days when mankind was transitioning from the use of stone tools we didn't need any Stepping Stones to get to the moon the very first man launch of an Apollo craft allegedly flew its crew all the way there and back without a hitch and do I also need to once again point out that despite setting our SES much lower and despite having vastly improved technology to work with and despite having an additional 50 years of space flight experience it will still take just as long to get men near the moon as it did in the 1960s to actually walk on the moon returning now to the alleged benefits of running these missions we find that lockheed's white paper also talks about being able to quote measure astronauts radiation dose from cosmic rays and solar flares to verify that Orion provides sufficient protection as it is designed to do currently the medical effects of deep space radiation are not well understood so a one-month Mission would improve our understanding without exposing astronauts to excessive risk so despite the fact that some 43 years have now passed since we first allegedly sent men into deep space we still really don't know anything about the effects of deep space radiation but we're pretty sure apparently that a 30-day dosage is a good safe place to start NASA initially considered for the Apollo missions according to to the Moon A Time Life Book quote men doomed by fatal disease one final curious aspect of these latest proposed missions that we need to delve into was explained by space.com quote the robotic Lander and Rover would be launched first on a slow but efficient trajectory to the Moon to ensure that the Rover is on its way before risking the crew launch say what are you kidding me what kind of girly men are these new breed of astronauts Stepping Stones supplemental launches before risking the crew can't we just find some men like John Glenn and Alan Shepard to Pilot the Orion craft and what is this nonsense about a slow but efficient trajectory to the Moon efficient in what way last time I checked the debunkers were still claiming that getting to the moon was pretty much a matter of just freef falling your way there what could be more efficient than that oh wait I remember now as as I pointed out in the last Apollo post getting to the Moon does not actually involve freef falling it involves battling the Earth's gravity by flying and ever increasing elipses and burning lots and lots of fuel and lockheed's oblique reference to a slow but efficient trajectory is in fact a confirmation of that and so by the way is this artist conception of the proposed Orion missions which shows the spacecraft outside of low earth orbit and yet clearly still burning its engines following the launch of a Lander and the robber both of which it will be recalled stored easily aboard the Apollo flights quote three astronauts would be launched in an Orion spacecraft if NASA has built a heavy lift launch vehicle by then it would be capable of launching the crew directly to the Moon if that Mega booster is a no-show small Rockets can be used instead but a more complex Arrangement would be required first Orion would be launched to low earth orbit on a rocket such as a Delta 4 heavy then a modified centur upper stage would launch on a separate rocket Orion would dock to the centur stage in orbit and the centur would boost Orion toward the Moon to briefly recap then we know that getting three men near the moon in modern times is considerably more difficult than Landing three men on the moon was in ancient times it now requires taking a number of baby steps before taking the big plunge and it requires the launch of three separate high-tech spacecraft and it will take the astronauts a full week to get there the equipment of course will take even longer to get there because it's on a slower and more efficient course and we may have some problems to work out in regards to deep space radiation and re-entry speed and even after all that we won't actually be landing men on the moon that would probably require another 10 years of baby steps and the launch of at least five spacecraft and since we'll be checking out the far side on these proposed missions we still won't be able to verify all those Apollo artifacts supposedly littering the moon which is really kind of a moot point because we won't actually be going at all speaking of The Far Side of the Moon by the way the Daily Mail noted that the surface was first photographed by Luna 3 a Soviet probe in 1959 and then the Apollo 8 mission followed in 1968 but there has been scant exploration of it since translation there has been no exploration of The Far Side since 1959 and it would be nice if the daily male would throw in a comma now and then but enough of that let's move on to a different topic remember how I argued that if it were possible to send Cruz to the Moon private Enterprise would probably have a strong financial incentive to have done so to exploit any available resources and remember how the debunkers not surprisingly claimed that there was nothing much on the moon to see or do so there was really not any really compelling reason to go back well as it turns out and this is quite shocking that the debunkers may be lying once again as the LA Times reported on April 8th 2011 in WJ henigan Moon X aims to scour moon for rare materials quote a team of prominent Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are shooting for the moon with a new private Venture aimed at scouring the lunar surface for precious metals and rare metallic elements the private company Moon Express incorporated or Moon X is building robotic Rovers alongside scientists at NASA's a research center northwest of San Jose mox's machines are designed designed to look for materials that are scarce on Earth but found in everything from a Toyota Prius car battery to guidance systems on cruise missiles while there is no guarantee the Moon is flush with these materials Moon X officials think that it may be a gold mine of so-called Rare Earth elements the company won't naturally enough be sending any human cargo to the Moon because that isn't really possible but the point here is that there are in fact compelling reasons for return flights to the moon for both financial and scientific gain so there is no validity at all to the argument that no one has been backed for some 40 years simply because there's no reason to go back let's briefly now return to operation Fishbowl which was also discussed in the last Apollo offering unbeknownst to me until very recently NPR decided to dredge up the nearly 50-year-old high altitude nuke test less than 2 weeks before I did in a piece by Robert kitch entitled a very scary light show exploding H bombs in space July 1st 2010 and the facts they brought to the table were rather compelling quote if you're wondering why anybody would deliberately detonate an hbomb in space the answer comes from a conversation we had with science historian James Fleming of Colby College according to Fleming who has been busily reading through James Van Allen's papers while working on a biography quote a good entry point to the story is May 8th 1958 when James Van Allen a space scientist stands in front of the National Academy in Washington DC and announces that they've just discovered something new about the planet what Van Allen's team had discovered of course was that Earth is ringed by belts of high energy particles known as the Van Allen radiation belts and what fling Recent research revealed incredibly enough is that the day after the press conference fan Allen agreed with the military to get involved with a project to set off atomic bombs in the magnetosphere to see if they could disrupt it let's pause here for a moment to reflect on the almost unfathomable level of megalomania at play here immediately upon learning of the existence of the radiation belts the military intelligence complex decided without even giving it much thought that it would be a great idea to attack said belts with atomic weapons and the scientists who had made the discovery immediately agreed that that was a swell idea as Fleming noted this is the first occasion I've ever discovered where someone discovered something and immediately decided to blow it up never mind that the belts were there to Shield the planet from incoming space radiation and that their existence is one of the primary reasons that biological life forms can thrive on this sphere let's just see if we can blow a big hole in them it apparently never occurred to the Geniuses in Washington that if you blow a hole in the belts to say allow for the safe passage of spacecraft you would also presumably allow for the unsafe passage of massive amounts of incoming and very lethal radiation this dear reader says a lot about the true nature of the men who rule behind the curtain what hubis is required to put at risk every living creature on this planet and to do so without even giving it a second thought for the dubious purpose of facilitating space missions that were never going to actually take place and bear in Mind by the way that these tests took place during the tenure of a nearly mythical figure known as John Fitzgerald Kennedy for those who are not inclined to believe that the sitting president actually calls the shots I would suggest taking a little time to contemplate why it is that the man who many consider to have been a knight in shining armor was the man who gave the thumbs up to the most recklessly arrogant nuclear weapons program tests ever conceived the first such tests were conducted in 1958 almost immediately after the discovery of the radiation bands but those tests used just lowly old atom bombs and according to NPR quote atom bombs had little effect on the magnetosphere which is why in 1962 the powers the be decided to up the ante by using h hen bombs really really big hydrogen bombs how big starfish Prime the most successful of the tests was tipped with a warhead 100 times as powerful as the bomb that leveled Hiroshima as detailed by NPR quote the plan was to send Rockets hundreds of miles up higher than the Earth's atmosphere and then detonate nuclear weapons to see a if the bomb's radiation would make it harder to see what was up there like incoming Russian missiles B if an explosion would do any damage to any objects nearby C if the van Ellen belts would move a blast down the bands to an Earthly Target like Moscow for example and most peculiar D if a man-made explosion might alter the natural shape of the belts the scientific basis for these proposals is not clear objective a roughly translates to we had to do it to protect ourselves from those crazy ruskies those with atypically long memories may recall that the collapse of the international communist threat neatly coincided with the rise of the international terrorist threat that was pretty much the all-purpose excuse for all manner of heinous activities undertaken by the Western Powers the main problem here though is that starfish Prime was detonated at an altitude of 250 Mi which is 50 Mi Beyond low earth orbit and I'm reasonably certain that Soviet icbms weren't designed to fly at anywhere near that altitude moving on to B I feel fairly confident in saying that even back in 1962 at the tender age of two I could have provided an answer to that question and the answer would have been yes detonating a very large hydrogen bomb will cause extensive collateral damage proceeding to see I'm afraid I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with NPR and its decision to label d as the most peculiar attempting to take out Moscow in a nuclear Holocaust redirected through the Van Allen belts has to rank up pretty high on the peculiarity scale and what would be the point plausible deniability looky what just happened to Moscow it's as if God himself struck a blow against the evil empire I know we didn't do it as for D altering the natural shape of the belts appears to have been the primary goal because as we all know man can always improve upon the natural order of things and it was immediately apparent right from the time of their discovery that the shape of the belts was entirely wrong for this planet sure they would have been fine for say Mars or Venus or even Pluto before it was rudely kicked out of the fraternity of planets but they were clearly unfit to Circle this planet so we had to try to fix them luckily we failed and with that I'm really now over my Apollo Obsession see see you all back in Laurel Canyon and that concludes this series and this reading on wagging the moon doggy by David mcgaan visit Center for informed america.com scroll down click on wagging the moond doggy 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