Revealed: The U.S. planned to blow up the MOON with a Nuclear Bomb in 1959!

No Scy-fi. It is real! The secret project, innocuously titled 'A Study of Lunar Research Flights' and nicknamed 'Project A119,' was never carried out, but it was very, very serious. Brains of the operation: Astronomer Carl Sagan was involved in the planning of the mission and physicist Leonard Reiffel, was the man in charge.

The unclassified document: www.dtic.mil...




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Reiffel, now 85, directed the inquiry at the former Armour Research Foundation, now part of the Illinois Institute of Technology. He later served as a deputy director at NASA. Sagan, who later became renowned for popularizing science on television, died in 1996.

The author of one of Sagan's biographies suggested that he may have committed a security breach in 1959 after revealing the classified project in an academic fellowship application. Reiffel concurred.

Under the scenario, a missile carrying a small nuclear device was to be launched from an undisclosed location and travel 238,000 miles to the moon, where it would be detonated upon impact.

When contacted by the AP, the U.S. Air Force declined to comment on the project.

They try to do this "thing" in 2009 with the Centaur Mission with a Cinetic Weapon....

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Dont you use the search function? Already posted. And misleading title, they did not plan to blow it up.

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