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And when one considers that since its inception, every single American President has known about it, the Fraud, probably not the kickback details, but regardless, it really does make one wonder.
I'll post a big knarly heinous anxiety producer for the ain'tstronauts, post a big detailed thing on the Woods Hole Conference
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Originally posted by choos
its just a selection process.. public relations issues.. be quite irresponsible for NASA to send up an under prepared astronaut when there were others who were well prepared, especially should something go wrong..
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
The main point here is that Deke does not select the astronauts on his own. He only nominated the astronauts, the list is sent to Washington, where it was approved or disapproved, by the faceless, and remaining nameless, ubiquitous them, the NASA bureaucracy.
Deke Slayton, C I A station chief, kept the information to himself until the appropriate time of release. For example, the Apollo 11 crew were announced to the public on Richard Nixon's birthday, January 9, 1969.
" As soon as we were sure___ and this was within minutes____ that it was a real problem, and not a telemetry problem, I got into a quick conference with the flight director, and it was decided that I should immediately go into the Lunar Module simulator and start working on what the crew would have to do, using the Lunar Module as a "lifeboat" ".
So the astronauts, Young and Micthell, they provide this story to bolster Kranz and his bogus version of things. By delivering those lines so early on, Kranz has identified himself as a PERP. No reason to have said that. Young and Mitchell try to rescue him with their lies ...
Mainly because your opinion around here is very short on credibility.
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by eriktheawful
Mainly because your opinion around here is very short on credibility.
The irony is that being a world class swimmer might actually be decisively's only genuine accomplishment, but he has been caught lying so often that no-one will ever believe it.
We're given a story by someone and told to believe something because of their opinion and speculation. No actual evidence.
I don't see anything there about screening them for immunity to German Measles, do you?
It seems like Dr. Berry doesn't know basic medical facts about his astronauts. "Have you ever been exposed to German Measles" would be a basic medical question that would be asked numerous times during the rigorous medical, physical and psychological background checks that were done at the Lovelace clinic.
They were supposed to be tested for rubella and other viruses at the time of their becoming astronauts SayonaraJupiter, and then they were to be tested regularly thereafter, tested in an ongoing fashion if found initially to be antibody negative, if still at risk. This Mattingly measles thing is a big win for our side, very juicy find, delicious really.
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
It seems like Dr. Berry doesn't know basic medical facts about his astronauts. "Have you ever been exposed to German Measles" would be a basic medical question that would be asked numerous times during the rigorous medical, physical and psychological background checks that were done at the Lovelace clinic.
And Mattingly would have said: "Of course. Everybody got Measles as a kid." It's not Dr. Berry's fault that his medical knowledge includes the fact that over 80% of all people would have contracted rubella as a child and would be immune as an adult. No need to screen for that in a blood serum test, right?
At Lovelace clinic they injected water at 0 degree centigrade into the ears of the astronaut candidates to test for vertigo. But they skipped the rubella screening? I find that hard to believe.