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Originally posted by StreetCorner Philosopher
Anti-Grav saucers are tiny. They are almost like pods. No room for cargo.
Sounds fishy....why did Columbia explode? They supposedly didn't notice any damage at all.
Originally posted by COOL HAND
I find it very interesting that John has basically abandoned the post that he started.
Originally posted by StreetCorner Philosopher
John, you mean you still travel in those primitive land based vehicles? Lol.
Hope the convention was lots of fun, and hope the people there weren't nearly as critical of you as they are on here.
Originally posted by sherpa
I am not sure if this is relevant and I don't want to steal anyones thunder, this websit seems to be covering a similar angle but doesn't site sources.
www.boomslanger.com...
Originally posted by aguilaThere is something bigger going on than we think (of course there is).
Originally posted by Implosion
Originally posted by johnlear
Zorgon will have Lenards photos up on thelivingmoon.com in a few minutes. I will give you a heads up when they are on.
Of course, John Lenard's photos of "secret space stations" [I thought they were supposed to be alien spacecraft...] are already up on ATS.
Alleged spacecraft/objects on moon
Originally posted by agent violet
so if i was going to speculate, i would say it would be along the lines of pictures, charts, maps, log books, written documents, computer disk with evidence, signed confession, or other things like such, imo.
Originally posted by Sytima
Secret space station, huh? Well, isn't that juicy? Anyone bothered to get their telescopes out, or is this space station using a cloaking device of some sort?
The pictures provided really don't do it for me. Colored blobs don't help, but say, maybe use an expensive capturing device?
[edit on 30-8-2007 by Sytima]
SPACE TRANSPORTATION FOR A LUNAR RESOURCES BASE (LRB)
Hubert P. Davis, Starcraft Boosters, Inc.
1032 Military Drive
Canyon Lake, TX 78133
(830) xxx-xxx
email: [email protected]
This is a report of a work in progress. So far as the author is presently aware, this topic has not been previously addressed. Proprietary work by NASA or others may, however, exist that address similar topics.
This work assumes that a base near the South Pole of our Moon will be established for the purpose of exploiting the resources of the Moon; principally the water ice that many believe was discovered by the Clementine and Lunar Prospector satellites. The ice is of particular value as, with the aid of the ample solar resource available nearby, it may become an essentially limitless source of oxygen / hydrogen propellants for continued visitation to and expansion of the base and for the support of additional space exploration missions, including human exploration of Mars.
This work placed a total 129 tons initial base for both the in crater and crater rim installations, as well as a 90 tons “marshaling yard” at the Earth Moon L-1 libration point. For launch services, the results of an in house Shuttle Derived Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle study were used. It is called Aquila. This vehicle can deliver over 50 tons to low Earth orbit from the Kennedy Space Center, using a combination of Space Shuttle and Delta IV Heavy components.
A second stage of the Delta IV Heavy vehicle was used to deliver 15 tons payloads from Earth orbit to docking at L-1. By so doing, no “new start” systems are needed beyond those of the L-1 station and the LRB itself, provided the Aquila and Crew Exploration Vehicle have been previously developed. At L-1, three of these once used stages are fitted with landing gear and other elements needed to produce a highly capable Lunar Vehicle and it is refueled from propellants delivered from Earth to place the base and to provide a single visit of a six person crew to aid the robotic operations necessary to produce a fully functional base.
If the ground rule is established that “dry” cargo and propellant must be launched separately, 34 launches were required. This will permit over 50% of the launches to launch only propellants. Later missions, using propellants produced by the LRB, show a large net gain in propellants available at L-1. For example, a round trip mission with the CEV results in a net gain of over six tons of propellant at L-1; a cargo delivery nets over 69 tons.
Work continues on the “pay-off” phase; that is, further missions making use of the propellants obtained from the shallow “gravity well” of the Moon. Propellants produced on the Moon will only be used from the lunar surface or from L-1; no attempt will be made to deliver them to other locations. That will come, but is “out-of-scope” for the present work.
A Mars mission departing from L-1 with mass of 686 tons can be placed on the trans Mars trajectory expending lunar origin propellants and just one of the Lunar Vehicles, requiring an additional 13 Aquila launches. This will permit dual Mars spacecraft to be used for each mission with a 28% mass margin over a single, similar mass vehicle departing from low Earth orbit.
I haven't talked about this since it happened. Not out of fear of ridicule but out of a misguided sense of loyalty. Maybe others who were involved may see this and step forward. I've had my web site for a few years and decided this is where to start. I believe this incident happened to me because of one piece of paper I saw in 1969. - Jack Arneson
While in the Army and stationed in Thailand from Aug, 1968 to Sep. ‘69, I had a friend in the Air Force who was also an amateur photographer and his occupation was in radar. On a few occasions he took me to radar tracking rooms and showed me around in the non-sensitive areas. And on other occasions to the photo lab on off-duty hours and showed me some very interesting photos of UFO’s taken by reconnaissance aircraft and F-4 Phantom fighters on patrol. Although they were not very good photographically speaking, one could tell they weren't conventional aircraft.
One day when we both had the same day off, he visited me at my base because we had a good beach to R & R, with an outdoor bar and open air theater. The two bases were only a couple of miles apart on the southern coast of Thailand. My base was Camp Samae San and his was Utapao Air Base.
We were talking about the photos of the UFO’s and tracking them when he said: “ I’m going to tell you something that’s up and coming and I just might be able to get clearance for you to be in the room. He and I took a walk down the beach and he pulled out a mimeographed copy of a carbon copy of a memo. It was a planned launch in a couple of months at a Marshall Islands launch site. Nothing really interesting at first I thought, until he told me what it was for.
The memo was addressed to a Colonel with a description of a planned experiment on a launch vehicle and cargo transport for a Moon mission. No other info in it about when or what mission.
At the top in the heading it was addressed as:
Memo to some Colonel and no TS or EO designation for secret, just a bunch of abbreviated location codes in the To and From lines.
Subject: Heavy Lift Launch
The last line in the heading read:
Code Name: AQUILA
I remember this name because I pronounced it wrong. I know some "Street Spanish" (my polite term for Mexican swear words and phrases) and kept saying: ________ It looked Mexican to me.
He said: “Just remember Tequila”. And then it came out "Aquila".
This really interested me because of the upcoming Apollo 11 mission and I was going to miss it! (I would still be in Thailand) No TV in Thailand at that time, only Newsreels when they showed a movie. And they were 3 months older than current events. So I knew I wouldn't see the transmissions until I rotated back to the US. I asked him if they were going to track the A11 too and he said: "We track everything"!
I couldn't get clearance to join in the tracking of the experimental launch and it really disappointed me. He did tell me the launch went as planned and was successful. The A11 launch wasn't for two more months and he thought we could figure something out by then for that one. When the time neared, he told me he tried to help with the paper work at his end but was told I have no affiliation with any of their projects, so no dice. We were both upset about it and he told me: "When the time is right, I’ll show you something that will probably change your life”.
That day was the last time I heard or saw of him. No info on his whereabouts when I looked for him, nobody new nothin'. I didn't have his home address or anything. Just that he was from Texas. (not his real home State) And he has or had, a common last name. So I'll use a fictitious name for his protection, lets call him... Johnson, Barry. Airman E-4, Sergeant.
This was the old designation for E-4 in the AF back then and not his real rank anyway. I was E-4 Specialist at that time. (this was my real rank) If I had stripes, I would be a Corporal. I always thought that was unfair: E-4 in the AF is Sergeant and E-4 in the Army was Corporal. I thought he either got caught doing something or was part of something and transferred. I didn't want to think the 3rd alternative.
US PATENT 5,092,545
Method of Delivering Lunar Generated Fluid to Earth Orbit Using an External Tank
Publication number: US5092545
Publication date: 1992-03-03
Inventor: BUTTERFIELD ANSEL J (US); GOSLEE JOHN W (US)
Applicant: NASA (US)
ABSTRACT
A method and apparatus are provided for delivering lunar generated fluid to Earth orbit from lunar orbit. Transport takes place in an external tank of a shuttle which has been suitably outfitted in Earth orbit for reusable travel between Earth orbit and a lunar orbit. The outfitting of the external tank includes the adding of an engine, an electrical system, a communication system, a guidance system, an aerobraking device, and a plurality of interconnected fluid storage tanks to the hydrogen and oxygen tanks of the external tank. The external tank is then propelled to lunar orbit the first time using Earth based propellant. In lunar orbit, the storage tanks are filled with the lunar generated fluid with the remainder tank volumes filled with lunar generated liquid oxygen and hydrogen which serve as propellants for returning the tank to Earth orbit where the fluid is off-loaded. The remaining lunar generated oxygen and hydrogen is then sufficient to return the external tank to lunar orbit so that a subsequent cycle of fluid delivery is repeated. A space station in a higher Earth orbit is preferably used to outfit the external tank, and a lunar node in lunar orbit is used to store and transfer the fluid and liquid oxygen and hydrogen to the external tank. The lunar generated fluid is preferably 3He.
Originally posted by Chorlton
HMMMM
Zorgon, Twould seem that some of the stuff on your website referring to some other 'secret space station' and accreditted to one 'Santamonica john' is also being posted on Youtube and entitled
'Interstellar Video Footage'so what is it? a secret space station or something 'interstellar'
Aint life strange eh?
www.youtube.com...
The first half is shown in negative video format to show a different perspective. Some of these are in deep space.
HMMMM
Zorgon, Twould seem that some of the stuff on your website referring to some other 'secret space station' and accreditted to one 'Santamonica john' is also being posted on Youtube and entitled
'Interstellar Video Footage'so what is it? a secret space station or something 'interstellar'
Aint life strange eh?