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The aft storage, compartment, behind the crew couches. This housed the 70 mm camera equipment, the astronaut’s garments, tool sets, storage bags, a fire extinguisher, CO2 absorbers, sleep restraint ropes, spacesuit maintenance kits, the 16mm camera equipment, and the contingency lunar sample container.
Twenty years ago, Department of Defense Analyst Franklin C. Spinney made headlines exposing what he calls the "accounting games." He's still there, and although he does not speak for the Pentagon, he believes the problem has gotten worse.
Minnery, a former Marine turned whistle-blower, is risking his job by speaking out for the first time about the millions he noticed were missing from one defense agency's balance sheets. Minnery tried to follow the money trail, even crisscrossing the country looking for records.
"The director looked at me and said 'Why do you care about this stuff?' It took me aback, you know? My supervisor asking me why I care about doing a good job," said Minnery.
Originally posted by van001
My question is where was there room for a fourth?
The 4th astronaut did not go on a flight. He was there to help sort out the problems during the checkout procedure prior to launch.
Originally posted by Chronic_Blaze
John, could you please explain the 4th guys purpose a bit more. I thought I remembered you saying before he was with the crew to make sure they did or saw nothing out of the ordinary when they got to the moon?
Why would the secret astronaut program send a guy into the ship just to check for glitches before take off?
Im assuming that the secret program used vehicles way more advanced than the Apollo program and since the Appollo computers were no more powerful than a childs gameboy, why would they even have interest in that sort of thing?
Originally posted by Icarus Rising
Even with the low gravity on the moon?
My dad brought home the 16mm films of the first lunar landing from Edwards, and we watched them in our living room, way back in '71, or thereabouts. I still remember asking my dad what that shimmering effect was as the LL landed and took off. He said it was heat waves from the rocket motors.
Could it have been an anti-grav field?
Originally posted by van001
Those wiki links are just for reference, but I am a little confused. What exactly is the meaning of the word "secret" here. If they are just checking for glitches why now let thier presence be known? And did they actualy go on the space flight or were they pulled out before the launch?
Originally posted by Icarus Rising
I love those NASA explanations. Like when they lost two Martian probes in a row. I remember on one the explanation was a failure to convert the trajectory readings into metric scale! I mean, come on!
metric mishap
What do you think happened to those probes, John?
I think maybe they were shot down somehow from the surface of Mars.
Originally posted by Icarus Rising
What do you make of the claims of Preston Nichols and Al Beilek/Ed Cameron? The dimensional rift and all that Montauk stuff. A diversion?
Originally posted by johnlear
The NASA 'secret' astronaut corps was formed about the same time as the astronauts that you and I know of. The difference was that the secret astronaut corps was flying to the moon and back in 1962 and to Mars in 1966 and throughout the solar system since then. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Space Lab, the Shuttle and ISS are all cover projects for what is really going on. We go back and forth to the moon all day long every day.
Originally posted by AussieNutter
I was wondering if you could point me to any references of this, as I am very interested in the space exploration scene and would like to learn more about the base on the moon and the base on Mars.
Another thing, just out of curiosity, why haven't we seen the effects of anti-grav technology filtering down into everyday life?