This makes very interesting reading!!
The great lunar lie. In the early hours of May 16, 1990, after a week spent
watching old video footage of man on the Moon, a thought was turning into an
obsession in the mind of Ralph Rene.
"How can the flag be fluttering," the 47-year-old American kept asking
himself,
"when there's no wind on the atmosphere free Moon?" That moment was to be
the
beginning of an incredible Space odyssey for the self-taught engineer from
New
Jersey.
He started investigating the Apollo Moon landings, scouring every NASA film,
photo and report with a growing sense of wonder, until finally reaching an
awesome conclusion: America had never put a man on the Moon.
The giant leap for mankind was fake. It is of course the conspiracy theory
to
end all conspiracy theories. But Rene has now put all his findings into a
startling book entitled NASA Mooned America. Published by himself, it's
being
sold by mail order - and is a compelling read.
The story lifts off in 1961 with Russia firing Yuri Gagarin into space,
leaving
a panicked America trailing in the space race. At an emergency meeting of
Congress, President Kennedy proposed the ultimate face-saver, put a man on
the
Moon. With an impassioned speech he secured the plan an unbelievable 40
billion
dollars. And so, says Rene (and a growing number of astro-physicists are
beginning to agree with him), the great Moon hoax was born. Between 1969 and
1972, seven Apollo ships headed to the Moon. Six claim to have made it, with
the
ill-fated Apollo 13 - whose oxygen tanks apparently exploded halfway - being
the
only casualties. But with the exception of the known rocks, which could have
been easily mocked up in a lab, the photographs and film footage are the
only
proof that the Eagle ever landed. And Rene believes they're fake.
For a start, he says, the TV footage was hopeless. The world tuned in to
watch
what looked like two blurred white ghosts gambol through rocks and dust.
Part of
the reason for the low quality was that, strangely, NASA provided no direct
link
up. So networks actually had to film man's greatest achievement" from a TV
screen in Houston -a deliberate ploy, says Rene, so that nobody could
properly
examine it. By contrast, the still photos were stunning. Yet that's just the
problem.
The astronauts took thousands of pictures, each one perfectly exposed and
sharply focused. Not one was badly composed or even blurred. As Rene points
out,
that's not all: * The cameras had no white meters or view ponders.
So the astronauts achieved this feat without being able to see what they
were
doing. Their film stock was unaffected by the intense peaks and powerful
cosmic
radiation on the Moon, conditions that should have made it useless. They
managed
to adjust their cameras, change film and swap filters in pressurized clubs.
It
should have been almost impossible without the use of their fingers.
Award winning British photographer David Persey is convinced the pictures
are
fake. His astonishing findings are explained alongside the pictures on these
pages, but the basic points are as follows: The shadows could only have been
created with multiple light sources and, in particular, powerful spotlights.
But
the only light sauce on the Moon was the sun.
The American flag and the words "United States" are always brightly lit,
even
when everything around is in shadow. Not one still picture matches the film
footage, yet NASA claims both were shot at the same time. The pictures are
so
perfect each one would have taken a slick advertising agency hours to put
them
together. But the astronauts managed it repeatedly.
David Persey believes the mistakes were deliberate, left there by "whistle
blowers", who were keen for the truth to one day get out. If Persey is right
and
the pictures are fake, then we've only NASA's word that man ever went to the
Moon. And, asks Rene, why would anyone fake pictures of an event that
actually
happened?
The questions don't stop there. Outer space is awash with deadly radiation
that
emanates from solar flares firing out from the sun. The Earth's Van Allen
belt
protects standard astronauts orbiting Earth in near space, like those who
recently fixed the Hubble telescope. But the Moon is to 240,000 miles
distant,
way outside this safe band. And, during the Apollo flights, astronomical
data
shows there were no less than 1,485 such flares.
John Mauldin, a physicist who works for NASA, once said shielding at least
two
meters thick would be needed. Yet the walls of the Lunar Landers,
which took astronauts from the spaceship to the moons surface were, said
NASA,
"about the thickness of heavy duty aluminum foil". How could that stop this
deadly radiation? And if the astronauts were protected by their space suits,
why
didn't rescue workers use such protective gear at the Chernobyl meltdown,
which
released only a fraction of the dose astronauts would encounter? Not one
Apollo
astronaut ever contracted cancer - not even the Apollo 16 crew who were on
their
way to the Moon when a big flare started.
"They should have been fried," says Rene. Furthermore, every Apollo mission
before number 11 (the first to the Moon) was plagued with around 20,000
defects
a-piece. Yet, with the exception of Apollo 13, NASA claims there wasn't one
major technical problem on any of their Moon missions. Just one defect could
have blown the whole thing. "The odds against these are so unlikely that God
must have been the co-pilot," says Rene.
Several years after NASA claimed its first Moon landing, Buzz Aldrin "the
second
man on the Moon" - was asked at a banquet what it felt like to step on to
the
lunar surface. Aldrin staggered to his feet and left the room crying
uncontrollably. It would not be the last time he did this. "It strikes me
he's
suffering from trying to live out a very big lie," says Rene.
Aldrin may also fear for his life. Virgil Grissom, a NASA astronaut who
baited
the Apollo program, was due to pilot Apollo 1 as part of the landings
build-up.
In January 1967, he hung a lemon on his Apollo capsule (in the US,
unroadworthy
cars are called lemons) and told his wife Betty: "If there is ever a serious
accident in the space program, it's likely to be me." Nobody knows what
fueled
his fears, but by the end of the month he and his two co-pilots were dead,
burnt
to death during a test run when their capsule, pumped full of high pressure
pure
oxygen, exploded.
Scientists couldn't believe NASA's carelessness - even chemistry students in
high school know high-pressure oxygen is extremely explosive. In fact,
before
the first manned Apollo flight even cleared the launch pad, a total of 11
would-be astronauts were dead. Apart from the three who were incinerated,
seven
died in plane crashes and one in a car smash. Now this is a spectacular
accident
rate. "One wonders if these 'accidents' weren't NASA's way of correcting
mistakes," says Rene. "Of saying that some of these men didn't have the sort
of
'right stuff' they were looking for." NASA won't respond to any of these
claims,
their press office will only say that the Moon landings happened and the
pictures are real. But a NASA public affairs officer called Julian Scheer
once
delighted 200 guests at a private party with footage of astronauts
apparently on
a landscape. It had been made on a mission film set and was identical to
what
NASA claimed was the real lunar landscape. "The purpose of this film,"
Scheer
told the enthralled group, "is to indicate that you really can fake things
on
the ground, almost to the point of deception." He then invited his audience
to
"come to your own decision about whether or not man actually did walk on the
Moon".
A sudden attack of honesty? You bet, says Rene, who claims the only real
thing
about the Apollo missions were the lift offs. The astronauts simply have to
be
on board, he says, in case the rocket exploded. "It was the easiest way to
ensure NASA wasn't left with three astronauts who ought later, out of the
public
eye (global surveillance wasn't what it is now) and into the safe hands of
NASA
officials, who whisked them off to prepare for the big day a week later.
And now NASA is planning another giant step - project Outreach, a 1 trillion
dollar manned mission to Mars. "Think what they'll be able to mock up with
today's computer graphics," says Rene chillingly. "Special effects was in
its
infancy in the 60s. This time round we will have no way of determining the
truth."
Space oddities:
Apollo 14 astronaut Allen Shepard played golf on the Moon. In front of a
worldwide TV audience, Mission Control teased him about slicing the ball to
the
right. Yet a slice is caused by uneven airflow over the ball. The Moon has
no
atmosphere and no air. A camera panned upwards to catch Apollo 16's Lunar
Lander
lifting off the Moon. Who did the filming?
One NASA picture from Apollo 11 is looking up at Neil Armstrong about to
take
his giant step for mankind. The photographer must have been lying on the
planet
surface. If Armstrong was the first man on the Moon, then who took the shot?
The
pressure inside a space suit was greater than inside a football.
The astronauts should have been puffed out like the Michelin Man, but were
seen
freely bending their joints. The Moon landings took place during the Cold
War.
Why didn't America make a signal on the moon that could be seen from earth?
The
PR would have been phenomenal and it could have been easily done with
magnesium
flares.
Text from pictures in the article. Only two men walked on the Moon during
the
Apollo 12 mission. Yet the astronaut reflected in the visor has no camera.
Who
took the shot? The flag's shadow goes behind the rock so doesn't match the
dark
line in the foreground, which looks like a line cord. So the shadow to the
lower
right of the spaceman must be the flag. Where is his shadow? And why is the
flag
fluttering?
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