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originally posted by: SayonaraJupiter
Astronaut's joystick used for Apollo moon landing tops half a million at auction
May 23, 2014 — The joystick controller used by astronaut David Scott to land Apollo 15's lunar module on the moon 43 years ago this July has sold for more than half a million dollars.
The sale is believed to be the highest price ever paid at a public auction for part of a NASA spacecraft.
RR Auction of Boston sold the spacecraft's rotational hand controller for $610,064 to an unidentified online bidder on Thursday evening (May 22). www.collectspace.com...
a reply to: Rob48
Have you started batting for the other team, SJ?
originally posted by: Misinformation
a reply to: Rob48
Have you started batting for the other team, SJ?
He must realize by now that the argument thats the Russians would of told the world that Apollo was a hoax is nothing but a red herring.... That is not the way the spy game is played...you dont tell your enemies what you know & dont know ,,you try to find out more & use it for other nefarious purposes , not just give it away for free...
Why didn't the Russians expose that Hughes was probing the 4th dimension through the Moon PooL...
I'd like to discuss other aspects of Apollo but,, If your unwilling to take the fallacy that the Russians would of exposed the Hoax argument off the table,, then you've lost all objectivity , & become nothing more than another propagandist....
originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
a reply to: Misinformation
The story of the Glomar Explorer became publicly known about 8 months after the salvage operation. It really isn't an apples to apples analogy.
As for the Soviets spilling the beans on the project -- maybe they did; maybe they had a hand in it becoming known to the public. However, that would just be wild speculation, and I have no evidence indicting that happened...
A more likely scenario may also be that the Soviets were fine keeping the salvage operation a secret because they didn't want the world to know they lost a submarine full of nuclear missiles and just left it lying there for 6 years.
As for the Americans, they may have wanted the loss of the Russian sub to be kept secret because (1) maybe they realized right after the Sub sunk that they had an opportunity to recover it, and/or (2) They also didn't want the public knowing that this sort of stuff could happen -- i.e., a sub full of nuclear warheads being sunk to the point that the warheads are just left lying there in the ocean.
So what your saying something as small as keeping a salvage operation secret and the US government couldnt manage that? Hmmmm yet somehow they managed to keep faking the moon landing a secret for decades. We have a president in the white house outing CIA agents im pretty sure the US government is incapable of keeping big secrets.
originally posted by: SayonaraJupiter
a reply to: dragonridr
So what your saying something as small as keeping a salvage operation secret and the US government couldnt manage that? Hmmmm yet somehow they managed to keep faking the moon landing a secret for decades. We have a president in the white house outing CIA agents im pretty sure the US government is incapable of keeping big secrets.
Perhaps you should look at the research of Charles Vick at globalsecurity.org he proved that NPIC/NRO/CIA are very capable of keeping secret satellite images from the 1960's. Vick is the #1 researcher in the world on Soviet space history, the N-1 article on astronautix.com was taken largely from his research.
Vick has shown in his 20 years of research that the US government is very capable of keeping secrets for 40+ years.
It seems clear to me that the US government has something to hide on the moon.
He must realize by now that the argument thats the Russians would of told the world that Apollo was a hoax is nothing but a red herring.... That is not the way the spy game is played...you dont tell your enemies what you know & dont know ,,you try to find out more & use it for other nefarious purposes , not just give it away for free...
When was the last time you presented an actual piece of evidence related to the moon?
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Rob48
When was the last time you presented an actual piece of evidence related to the moon?
More specifically, when was the first time he presented an actual piece of evidence that the lunar landings did not occur?
originally posted by: SayonaraJupiter
Bring it on. Nobody has the balls but Richard Nixon. History agrees with me.
Cestrup claimed to have an explanation for how the 3-D landscape of Taurus-Littrow was faked in dozens of consistent photographs, but that has yet to appear. (I'll gloss over his attempted sidetrack into Sibrel land, because that didn't go at all well.)
originally posted by: Misinformation
It's obvious TPTB will go to great lengths to prevent the hoax from being exposed....
I find it odd that ,the day of 9-11 , it just so happens that information regarding Howard Hughes was suddenly interrupted...
was 9-11 perpetrated to coverup Howard Hughes involvement & prevent the hoax from being exposed...
coincidence...I think not...
NEW YORK — The news came into Matt Lauer’s ear as he interviewed a Howard Hughes biographer on what felt like another slow news day in the summer of shark attacks and Chandra Levy.
“Go to commercial,” “Today” executive producer Jonathan Wald told him tersely. “Breaking news: A plane has hit the World Trade Center.”
That’s all anyone knew at 8:50 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. “Good Morning America” hurried out of an interview with Sarah Ferguson, CBS’ “The Early Show” cut off a cooking segment.
originally posted by: cestrup
a reply to: Rob48
As to your landscape - when I saw how easily you can fake a black and white moon-scape - there you go. Easy - especially when you control all of the data of rock placement and photography. It's really not that hard IMO
edit to add: so not all of the photos were done with a back drop. Some could have just been done in a desert or beach area here on earth and edited.
Except that it has to be a real landscape that precisely matches the real moon as it was at the time of the landings, and therefore as it is now and as it will be in 50 or 100 years from now. Otherwise, as soon as anybody else visits or takes a photo and finds that it doesn't match, the whole thing would be exposed. And, back in the Apollo era, NASA had no idea how long it would be before anybody else went to the moon.