Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries (68 page)

However, other lunar photos not mentioned by Rene, but appearing in some of the other previously mentioned books, indicate movement and structure on the Moon. One well known photo (Photo 4), shot from an unmanned orbiter, which has even appeared in National Geographic, shows "boulders" rolling, allegedly from a moonquake. However, basic scrutiny shows that they are rolling up and down hill. Lesser known photographs show these same "boulders" on other areas of the Moon making identical track marks. Photo 5 is from National Geographic, September 1973, and was shot by the crew of Apollo 17. A close-up shot of this same boulder has appeared in a recent issue of Nexus magazine, OctoberNovember 1995, which shows it to be the same cylindrical shape with arms as the larger rolling boulder of Photo 4.

Domed and pointed building-like structures appear in craters. These have been written off as lava bubbles or impacts causing the craters, even though against them being impact craters (the rim heights are similar regardless of crater diameter). Photo 6 is an enlarged section of a photo of the crater Kepler which appeared in the February 1969 National Geographic. It looks to me like there is an artificial complex in Kepler. Fred Steckling has a blowup of this structure in his book.

While Rene has shown some serious problems with the lunar photos, mostly those of the astronauts on the Moon, he doesn't show any of the boulder or dome photos. I would have to concur that many of the astronaut photos are faked, it becomes obvious after a while. However, I don't think this necessarily brings us to the conclusion that NASA didn't go, but geological responses to the the physical evidence goes

it certainly means we're being lied to about something. But let us go on to further discrepancies:

STAR LIGHT, STAR DARK!

If one were to add up all the astronauts' stated observations of the appearance of space above the atmosphere one would come to the conclusion that they were either crazy, incompetent, or they never went, or, perhaps some of them were lying? Alan Sheppard, first American to be catapulted up reported seeing no stars, ditto for Virgil Grissom. John Glenn reported seeing some brighter Stars only (and be saw [what NASA claimed were] "fireflies"). To quote some astronauts on the subject:

Photo 6. A "city" in the center of Crater Kepler?

Neil Armstrong: "The sky is black, you know." ; "It's a very dark sky." Mike Collins on Gemini 10: "My God, the stars are everywhere: above me on all sides, even below me somewhat, down there next to that obscure horizon. The stars are bright and they are steady." This was written 14 years later, and remember that the Gemini 10 space walk photo shown here has now been proven fake.
Mike Collins on Apollo 11: "I can't see the earth, only the black starless sky behind the Agena [rocket]. . . . As I slowly cartwheel away from the Agena, I see nothing but the black sky for several seconds. . . ." ; "What I see is disappointing for only the brightest stars are visible through the telescope, and it is difficult to recognize them when they are not accompanied by the dimmer stars. . . ."
Gene Cernan on Apollo 17: "When the sunlight comes through the blackness of space, it's black. I didn't say it's dark, I said black. So black you can't conceive how black it is in your mind. The sunlight doesn't strike on anything, so all you see is black."
Yuri Gagarin, first Russian cosmonaut: "Astonishingly bright cold stars could be seen through the windows."
Professor August Piccard on his high altitude balloon flight circa 1938 (many miles up with special heated suit) said that the sky turned from blue to deep violet to black. It is said that he claimed the sun disappeared as he got to the higher altitudes, though I have been unable to locate this exact reference.
My own investigations of NASA, circa 1987, revealed people who claimed that the stars could not be seen in space, but that special diffraction gratings were being developed to attempt to see them. This was from the period from Sheppard on to Skylab. I later spoke with John Bartoe who was up on an early shuttle flight and he laughed at this, said he couldn't believe that anyone in NASA would say that because he was in space and the stars were brighter than they are on Earth! (They must have slipped him a working diffraction grating.) I called back my contact in NASA and he told me, "Sir, the astronaut is a trained observer and is reporting what he saw, but the information I gave you (about the blackness of space) was essentially correct." I spoke with the man who developed the film for NASA for twenty-five years and he told me that the astronauts weren't even sure if they could see the sun, that it may have been the appearance of the sun on their windows!
The fact is that there are no visible light photographs of the sun, the stars, or any planets (other than the Earth and Moon, and not including specific probes sent to those planets) available in any NASA photo catalog. The fact that no stars appear on any photos was one of the main pillars of evidence for Bill Kaysing's book. Rene is the source of the astronauts' quotes as above and feels that there must be some serious problem with this selective star-blindness. As there is no definite answer available to us right now as to whether or not we can see the stars in space, I would have to say that we cannot base our conclusion as to the validity of the Apollo flights on the evidence of the appearance (or nonappearance) of stars in NASA photos.

THERMAL PROBLEMS

Space is supposed to be at absolute zero. Anything directly in the sunshine heats up incredibly. Skylab overheated when one of its solar panels failed to deploy properly, yet Apollo 13, in direct sunlight and in a lethal radiation zone, supposedly got cold! On the launch pad the ship is air conditioned from ground services. In space the ship is air conditioned (powered by fuel cells), if you turn off that air conditioner the ship gets cold! At least that is what NASA's line of logic dictates. Apollo 17's LEM sat on the Moon in the direct sun for 75 hours straight. Without massive power and refrigeration units the only way to cool the LEM would have been with the explosive cooling of water. Many tons would have been necessary for that time period. The astronauts reported that the LEMs were "too cold to sleep in." How cold would your closed car be after 75 hours of direct sunlight (or even 1 hour)?

The life support backpacks that the astronauts wore were supposed to COOL them on the lunar s ur f ac e by discharging water from a blowhole. Conservative calculation of the water necessary to accomplish this, given standard metabolic heat and solar radiation, indicates that the backpacks had to be filled 40 percent with water, allowing room also for an oxygen bottle, carbon dioxide scrubber, dehumidifier, water bladder for the cooling circuit and one for dump water, a heat exchanger, a radio monitoring bodily function, a communications radio with power to reach Houston, and a battery to power all this. Also, for the cooling to be functioning, the water had to be ejected from the blowhole regularly. This would have created the effect of a fountain spewing minute crystals of water, quite a tremendous photo opportunity NASA seemed to have missed on tens of thousands of photos. NASA's own cutaway drawing of the backpack shows a water storage capacity of about .43 gallons, almost enough for 27 minutes of operation at the impossible efficiency of 100 percent. NASA claims 4 hours of operation.

ODD FIT

With the backpacks on, the astronauts would need about 35 inches of clearance to crawl through the 30-inch hatch on the LEM (lunar [excursion] module) in the manner claimed by NASA. Awful tight fit!

After getting back in the LEM the astronauts "repressurized their cabin." Then [according to NASA] "they removed their boots, slipped out of the backpacks heavy with life-support equipment that had kept them alive on the Moon, reopened the hatch, and dumped them along with crumpled food packages and filled urine bags onto the surface" (Apollo 11). There is no airlock on the LEM, how did they open the door after repressurization and dump their suits and garbage without dying from the supposed vacuum and heat (or was that cold)?

SPACE RADIATION

Van Allen radiation belts and solar flares create deadly radiation in space.* NASA spacecraft were not shielded against this. Apollos 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 flew during the peak of solar cycle 20, with large flares occurring during the flights. All those astronauts would have received many hundreds or thousands of times the LIFETIME radiation limits for nuclear energy workers. A Supersonic Transport (SST) must drop altitude when it gets a dosage of 10 millirems, at 100 millirems it must alter its flight plan. 170 millirems is dangerous and almost guarantees cancer in the future.

* ... the radiation was first predicted by Nikola Tesla around the beginning of this century as the result of experimental and theoretical work he had done on electricity in space in general and the electrical charge of the Sun in particular. He tried then to tell our academic natural philosophers (scientists) that the Sun had a fantastic electrical charge and that it must generate a solar wind. But to no avail. . . .

Subsequent study showed that this belt, or belts, [begins] in near space about 500 miles

out and extends out to over 15,000 miles... Van Allen belt radiation is dependent upon the
_{solar wind and is said to focus or concentrate that radiation.}

During Apollo 14 and 16 the solar flares would have given the astronauts approximately 75 rem (not millirems!). In an article in National Geographic, "Chernobyl—One Year Later" it says: "In general, 5 rem is considered acceptable for a nuclear-plant employee in a year, with 25 rem (the total countenanced for Chernobyl cleanup workers) an allowable once-in-alifetime dose." The walls of the spacecraft were "paper thin" and the fabric suits had no radiation shielding built in, anyway only very thick lead or a large measure of water (approximately 6 feet of shielding mass) will reduce the radiation of solar flares to anywhere close to safe levels. How did NASA protect the astronauts against this deadly radiation? The words "Space Radiation" appear extremely rarely, if at all, in books about manned space flights. Russian scientists told astronomer Bernard Lovell that they know of no way to shield from radiation outside the Van Allen radiation belts.

OUTRIGHT MURDER?

Shortly before the 1967 test-pad fire that killed three astronauts (Grissom, White and Chaffee) Virgil Grissom told his wife, Betty, "If there is ever a serious accident in the space program, it's likely to be me." He had become a critic of the Space Program and had expressed unease about the success of actually getting men on the Moon. The decision to run this test with pure oxygen at pressure was nothing short of moronic—it created a calorimetric bomb which was set off by the astronauts being told to flip switches that caused tiny sparks. Immediately after the test-pad fire, before anyone was notified, government agents raided Grissom's home and took all his personal papers. When they returned his papers to his widow his personal diary and all papers containing the word "Apollo" were missing!

Five other astronauts died in "accidents" that same year. Before the first Apollo manned mission left the launch pad eleven astronauts had died in "accidents," Grissom, White and Chaffee in the capsule fire, Freemen, Basset, See, Rogers, Williams, Adams and Lawrence died in airplane rashes (remember these were the world's best pilots flying their private aircraft, government supplied [jet] trainers—very safe craft) and Givens was killed in a car crash. In 1970 Taylor died in a plane crash.

CONCLUSION

There is no doubt that Rene has opened a can of worms with NASA Mooned America!. It is a challenge to us researchers to check out his information. Only a small portion of his research appears in this review. Rene has done his homework well and he is an intelligent man. I agree with most of his information, some of his figuring is beyond my technical grasp, and some things I don't agree with, such as his claim that the lunar footprints could only be made in wet soil. I have made very clear footprints in fine, dry desert dust, and I have used them as a guide on returns from the wilderness. I agree that many photos have been faked, that the information doesn't add up, and that NASA will go to great lengths, even murder, to cover up whatever is really happening. I think, and have so for a long time, that there is and has been for centuries, perhaps millennia, intelligent activities occurring on, and perhaps below, the surface of the Moon. I may be wrong, and I admit that possibility, but there is a tremendous body of information to back up my belief.