The first decade of the new century gave birth to what was figuratively called the "Asian space race", in memory of the glorious days of the 60s of the last century. At that time, progress in space exploration was so rapid that it seemed a little more, and there would be permanent bases on the Moon, and a person would walk around Mars, marking out plots for apple orchards. The reality turned out to be quite different. Both space powers retreated and limited themselves to the development of near-Earth space. The retreat of the USSR from the moon was more like a stampede. In the rearguard battles, heavy space equipment was thrown. A fully equipped and ready to fly space tank of the 3rd modification - Lunokhod-3 was never sent to the moon.
Almost 40 years have passed since then. During this time, the USSR and later Russia did not send anything to the moon! Today, scientists say: "The moon has again become interesting to us." I do not remember a period when the Moon was not of interest to Earth scientists. As it turned out, there are so many new and unexpected things on the Moon that it seems that 40 years ago it was a completely different planet. For example, who would have thought that there is a lot of water on the Moon, just seas of icy water!? Do amazing discoveries and unexpected revelations await us on the Moon, even greater than we might expect?
Following the general trend of "revival of interest in the lunar topic", I propose to read the translation of an article by Clyde Lewis, which was written and published on the 30th anniversary of the first landing on the moon. Author, Clyde Lewis is an actor, creator and host of the radio show "Ground Zero" about paranormal and political topics.
Good luck Mr Gorsky
and other lies about the moon
Thirty years ago, people gathered around their televisions to witness one of the most remarkable feats of the millennium. While Walter Cronkite held back his tears, the nation learned that a man had landed on the moon. They knew it because they saw it. They knew it because the government said it happened. They knew it because... just because. That's all the evidence they needed. It's 1999 now, and where is the evidence?
History buffs will remember that Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon, made a mistake when he delivered his famous "one small step" speech. He should have said, "One small step for man, but one giant leap for all mankind." These words went down in history, but the words he said after that were cut out. You probably never hear or see them in movie bloopers and pranks, but the story goes that he made a few remarks after both of his feet touched the moon sand. NASA lore says that Armstrong said, "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky."
Many at NASA thought it was a casual remark about Russia. That perhaps one of the cosmonauts named Gorsky was a rival of Armstrong, and that it was a low blow from Russia's failed attempt to land on the moon. However, after checking, it turned out that Gorsky was not in either the Russian or American space programs. Who is this Gorsky? Whenever people asked Armstrong about Gorsky, Neil blushed and smiled, but he never talked about it.
Recently at a press conference in Florida, a reporter spoke to Armstrong about the enigmatic Gorski. He asked the question that many journalists tried to ask and never got an answer: "Who the hell is this Gorsky guy you were talking about on the moon?" For 26 years, he avoided the question because he didn't want to embarrass Mr. Gorsky. But this time it was a journalist's lucky day, and Armstrong finally answered. Mr. Gorsky was dead, and Neal felt that answering the question wouldn't hurt anyone.
Armstrong told a story that when he was a child, he played baseball with a friend. Armstrong filed, and his friend volleyed the ball, which landed in front of the neighbor's bedroom window. Mr and Mrs Gorsky lived next door. Neal ran after the ball, and as he bent down to pick it up, he overheard Mrs. Gorsky yelling at Mr. Gorsky. She screamed at the top of her lungs, "Oral sex! Do you want oral sex? You'll get it when the neighbor's kid walks on the moon!"
Isn't this a wonderful story? She didn't exist - it's just one of those urban legends that everyone loves to tell.
Professor Jan Harold Brunvand once said, "The truth should never get in the way of a good story." No matter how many times this story is told, it always rings true because it is such a wonderful story. It got into the papers and, who knows, one day it may take on the status of a genuine event, even if it is a white lie.
There is also an old saying: "The more cynical the lie, the easier it is to convince others that it is the truth 2 ".
July 20, 1969 Man landed on the moon. A remarkable achievement considering it was a direct hit on the first try. And the entire space program went almost without a hitch, and not a single person died on the moon. We had problems and setbacks before the moon launches, but, miraculously, not a single death during the Big Show. It was a miracle that we flew through the radiation belts. Oh yeah, when the rocket took off, we forgot about James Van Allen. You may have heard of him, he was the guy who discovered the dangerous radiation belts that surround the Earth to altitudes of 40-60 thousand km.
The Van Allen Belt spews out enough deadly radiation to kill anyone who dares to enter it unprotected. Scientific experiments conducted by Van Allen and the military proved that the belt was so deadly that no human could survive in it. The capsule must be lined with 4 feet of lead to protect the astronauts. She was protected by aluminum.
We forgot about it. Because it was shown on TV. We were children. We dreamed and believed in dreams.
The television broadcast blurry images from the moon, and we were amazed. We were so surprised that we forgot to look at the stars in the sky above the lunar landscape. But don't worry, they weren't there. It seemed strange for a place where there is no atmosphere, and there is nothing to obscure the light of the stars. And you could see myriads of bright lights. None were seen.
And it also means that during the day the sunlight will be dazzling. Not soft. How can scattered light exist on the moon? Diffused lighting is used in television studios and film pavilions. Maybe that explains why the photos adorning our history books looked so amazing. Wait a minute! TV images were blurry, photos were soft and well-composed so that they looked captivating in the Viewmaster's stereo glasses. The moon landings were so amazing back then to think of light manifesting itself in the same way without an atmosphere as it does in an atmosphere. And that these breathtaking photographs can be taken at 120 degrees Celsius, when most films melt at 65 degrees. John Carter of Mars had a ray gun, Buck Rogers had anti-gravity boots, and our astronauts had heat-resistant film.
We saw footprints in the moon sand. Footprints left in the dry lunar soil. It reminded me of when I was on the beaches of the Great Salt Lake and how the sand couldn't even keep my footprints intact. Later, I realized that there must be moisture in the soil to keep the track. That's why, when the water receded, I saw footprints in the sand. I learned in school that there is no water on the moon. Besides, I bet it would be hard to keep things damp in that heat, even if there was some moisture on the moon.
You can be proud to be an American when the small steps of a man have left an even deeper imprint than a 1400-kilogram lunar lander. It was reassuring to see that the rocket thrust had not dug a crater in what Armstrong described as a surface like loose powder. It was so nice to see a clean lander without a speck of dust on it, and you were proud of the neat astronauts. I mean, in zero gravity, perhaps some of this fine dust will end up in the area of \u200b\u200bthe legs of the lunar module, not to mention the possible phenomena of static or magnetization. When we were kids, we believed everything.
I am no longer a child.
The very idea of doubting the moon landings is heresy. I can understand if you think I'm crazy. I'm not alone. The number of those who begin to doubt is growing every day. You see, people do not understand that there are no independent witnesses of the events that took place on the Moon.
We take it for granted that the evidence is actually genuine, honestly shown and responsibly reported. In fact, humanity has no evidence at all that we have ever set foot on the moon, other than the photographs that NASA has chosen for publication.
As you can tell, there are a lot of things that sound so weird and stupid that it's hard to believe how we could fall for all of this. The power of television kept the burning dream alive, and the threat of war and the challenge of a young and energetic leader who was killed in the prime of his life kept us from cynicism for a while. It brought us together for a moment before we realized that yes, there was a nasty war going on, and perhaps our former leader had fallen victim to a government coup.
We needed heroes. It took 30 billion dollars to create them. Heroes fighting in Vietnam were not enough. We needed glam boys jumping up and down in the movie theater. Anything to show our superiority.
People have forgotten who was ahead of us in the space race. Evil Russians. Yes, they were evil back then. However, there is no doubt that they knew how to organize a space program. In the early stages of the space race, the USSR had an advantage over the United States thanks to the Vostok and Voskhod spacecraft, which were technologically superior to the American spacecraft of the time. The Russians were the first to send an animal and a man into space. And then, one fine day, they wake up and hear that we have landed on the moon. And they throw in the towel in the ring. Why did they give up? They could outdo us by landing a ship on the moon capable of building a space station. It's been 30 years since we landed on the moon. 30 years ago we penetrated 400,000 km into deep space. In that space program, launches to the moon were almost flawless. Even during a tragedy such as Apollo 13, the astronauts returned and everything ended happily. It's been 30 years since the moon landings.
We're launching shuttles. Shuttles that rise into space only 400 km. We're building orbital space stations, and we lost seven astronauts in the Challenger crash. Is this progress? Why don't we fly shuttles to the moon? Why don't we build space stations and holiday homes on the moon? Why are we sending robots to the moon to explore ice formations? And finally, why didn't we succumb to nostalgia send a couple of astronauts to the moon to freshen up the experience?
Everything is very simple. We have never been there.
You can argue that the secret must have been known to about 35,000 NASA employees and about 200,000 contractors who worked on the Apollo project. Then are you ready to claim that in your office, no matter where you work, every department knows what the other departments are doing?
And here the art of fragmentation is used to its fullest. This happened with the Manhattan Project and a number of other projects. Secrets can be kept. Money and the threat of death are the main levers of secrecy. Patriotism is also a factor. The very fact of suggesting that we did not fly to the moon in some circles paints me as an extremely strange eccentric. Imagine now what happens if someone opens their mouth.
People also claim that the technology was not available to fake such a mission. Simulating one-sixth of Earth's gravity would be easy with movie magic. Hydraulics, wire and filming of some underwater scenes in the aquarium. Nobody knows for sure. Technologies are said to be developed 20 years before they hit the market, which suggests that in 1969 both battlefield simulation programs and planetary landscape programs could be used with something as simple as a blue rear screen. .
We saw a raw version in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. It has even been suggested that Kubrick was chosen to direct (a la "The Tail Wags the Dog") the moon landings. And he will never get the recognition he deserves for his direction. C.Powers wrote:
It is said that in early 1968 Kubrick was secretly interviewed by NASA officials who made him a lucrative offer to "direct" the first three moon landings.
At first, Kubrick refused, as 2001: A Space Odyssey was on the editing table at the time, but NASA threatened to make public the greater involvement of Stanley's younger brother, Raul, in the activities of the American Communist Party. It would be an unbearable embarrassment for Mr. Kubrick, especially after the release of Dr. Strangelove. Kubrick finally relented, and for sixteen months he and a special effects team led by Douglas Trumbull worked in a purpose-built movie theater in Huntsville, Alabama, "creating" the first and second moon landings. These efforts have resulted in hundreds of hours of 35mm film and video footage of the Apollo 11 and 12 moon missions.
The fictitious Apollo 11 mission was masterfully staged in July 1969. A Saturn V rocket carrying astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins was launched into low Earth orbit, remaining there while NASA discreetly released Kubrick's studio footage to the press. After an impressive "lunar landing" and "return to Earth", the astronauts returned to the Earth's atmosphere and made a perfect splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, right on schedule. A few months later, the Apollo 12 mission was successfully faked in a similar manner.
However, Mr. Kubrick turned down directing the Apollo 13 mission because NASA rejected his scenario in which the Apollo 13 mission failed. Kubrick insisted that the dramatic failed mission, from which the astronauts returned safely to Earth, would ultimately prove to be NASA's "finest hour".
NASA was of the opinion that a failed mission would unnecessarily jeopardize the agency's image, so Kubrick withdrew from the project. Ironically, NASA later decided to use the script for the failed mission, which was recruited to direct by the obscure but highly respected British director Randall Cunningham.
Kubrick's relentless perfectionism is evident throughout the filming of Apollo, from the chilling "1201 exception" during the last seconds of the Eagle's descent to the lunar surface, all the way to the lunar dust covering the astronauts' spacesuits.
It all seems a bit hypothetical...or does it? Powers also states:
- The lunar film set was built on the Mercury base, which was given the code name Copernicus.
- The film set was located in an underground cave.
- There were supplies for lighting, camera rails, and special effects equipment.
- All scenes of exits to the lunar surface were filmed on the set.
- "Missions" were controlled by a complex of IBM 370 computers.
- There were radio channels with the main tracking stations in Australia, Spain, California and a satellite transmission of a copy of the voice channel.
You see, people make up stories to suggest that maybe all is not well in the Sea of Tranquility.
If you feel confused, you are not alone. The bottom line is that there are two obvious scenarios. First, we have never gone to the moon and have been deceived for 30 years. Or the photographs and film were for propaganda purposes, and the film footage was filmed in a studio. Three astronauts participated in the moon landing, and I find it strange that we were able to film the landing itself without a large film crew and technical director, so everything looked great on the TV screen.
How difficult is it to understand the feasibility of a three-day orbital flight and splashdown with dummy astronauts playing in a makeshift sandbox in a film studio? Simple, right? It's annoying, but it's easy to imagine.
Is it hard to imagine cash rewards and veiled threats for those who know what really happened during the moon landing to keep their mouths shut? Is it any wonder that Neil Armstrong keeps quiet about the first moon landing? And that he rarely talks to the press? It is equally embarrassing that while we praise John Glenn for his nostalgic shuttle flight to commemorate his orbital flight on Friendship 7, we recall the moon landing in passing.
The whole event took place 30 years ago, and to this day the moon landing seems artificial and heavily guarded. The moon landing itself seems so indifferent and devoid of emotion. The dialogue was like a carefully written script, read without emotion. What emotions would you experience if you knew that you were stepping on extraterrestrial soil? Here, it seemed, there were no tears, no fear. Just an ordinary giant leap for all mankind.
The moon landings were my kindergarten memories. Was it just a paper moon hanging on a cardboard stage? If there was an opportune moment to forge such an enterprise, then 1969 was the time. We lived in the misery of the Cold War. In order to allay fears of Russian superiority in space, we could easily devise a plan to use lunar propaganda to lure the Soviets into wasting valuable resources in the "space race" while we were spending relatively little money fabricating our achievements in it. competition. Remember? They were far ahead of us and gave up as soon as the Eagle landed.
We have sold our soul to the Lunar Conspiracy - those involved can hardly back down. Just think of the scandal that the misuse of taxpayer money will lead to when the public discovers it! We are doomed to keep lying. Money bought silence. Fear keeps astronauts in line. You may be asking yourself, "Fear of what?" According to Bill Kaysing, who previously participated in the program on "Ground Zero", this is a fear for his life.
Kaysing claims that some astronauts were ready to sound the alarm about the deplorable state of the space program. He claimed that Tom Baron complained to Congress about the unsafety of the Apollo program after his careful study of the aerospace program. He was killed 4 days after testifying. And, of course, Gus Grissom died on the launch pad in 1967 when a fire burned out his capsule after he openly disagreed about Apollo safety issues. This incident was used to demonstrate what awaits anyone who dares to open his mouth about the Lunar Conspiracy.
If the moon landing was a hoax, then that is only part of the lie. It has already been said that this was our finest hour, the crowning achievement of NASA. But we never returned.
Many uneducated people think that the space shuttle is a wonderful invention. Remarkable only because we admire its mediocrity.
We were on the moon! At least that's what NASA is telling you. We delivered a large payload to the Moon, at a distance of 400 thousand km, and not a single astronaut died. However, our Space Shuttles fly only 400 km above the Earth. Seven astronauts died trying to get through only a fraction of what the Apollo astronauts achieved effortlessly.
Thirty years after the moon landing, I can't even get Windows 98 to run smoothly, and we can effortlessly send a man to the moon and bring him back. I can't even talk to Juneau, Alaska, from Portland, Oregon without a 2-second delay, but in 1969, astronauts could respond very quickly from 400,000 km without a problem. Not to mention the clarity of astronaut voices in 1969. Thirty years later, you hit the blind spot and your cell phone dies at rush hour.
Can you still believe the Moon landings when they say that the computers used on missions back then were no more complicated than a computer in a microwave toaster? I know that many people laugh at the fact that someone says that we did not land on the moon. People will always say, "Look how far we've come."
After landing on the moon, the sea was knee-deep to us. At least we thought so. Now we are limited to orbiting space stations and shuttles that regularly take off and orbit 400 km.
We decided to go to the moon, we decided to go to the moon 30 years ago. We decided so because the dream was alive. The dream was of a civilization that would resolve disputes on the moon. But the hidden thought was about superiority. If we took possession of the moon, then we could impose our will on governments and populations. This is still a dream.
When the moon landing took place in 1969, a 5-year-old child watched it and dreamed that one day he would live on the moon.
He dreamed that he would pack his things and buy a ticket for this trip that would lift him above the Earth.
How was I to know that even the tickets of the first astronauts were fake?
I would like to believe that we have landed on the moon. So I still think about it, smile discreetly and hope no one guessed that I lost my faith.
It's the same wary smile at Christmas when a child opens a present from Santa Claus. After all, truth should never get in the way of a good story.
The moon landing will always be a good story, huh, Mr. Gorski?
1 Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (1916 - 2009) was a legendary American television journalist and CBS broadcaster. Reported to the Americans news about the Apollo flights.
2 Inaccurate retelling by the author of the statement of Dr. Goebbels, the most frequent translation of which into Russian is: "The more cynical the lie, the sooner it will be believed."
Want to get to know a person better? Ask him about the moon landing. His answer will allow you to immediately determine whether it is worth continuing to communicate with him, hiring or signing a long-term contract.
The point here, in fact, is not the Americans and the attitude towards them ... Although no, this is also the case. Let's admit that now in Russian society the attitude towards America is negative, many are not satisfied with their foreign policy, technological superiority, sanctions. But today's attitude of a person to someone or something is in no way able to influence the events of the past. And here is the first characteristic of a person: is his subjective view and preferences capable of influencing an adequate perception of reality? Do you need such a friend, partner or colleague who builds his own little world in his imagination, where he can live comfortably? Yes, we all live in such worlds, but some still try not to break away from reality.
Landing on the moon is a most complicated technical operation that required the efforts of tens of thousands of highly qualified professionals. This is a colossal innovation and risk. And all the details of this mission are detailed in millions of pages of published documents, scientific publications, photos and video. To understand the details of the flight to the moon and the return back, not only and not so much engineering and space competence is required, but the desire to find out how it was. How did they land and take off? Where is the lunar soil now and who is studying it? What footprints are left on the moon and how to see them? Can cosmic radiation harm people in flight?.. All questions have answers. But if a person continues to ask them, expecting or demanding answers from you, then this is also his characteristic: he is not ready to seek new knowledge, is incapable or lazy in finding answers to questions that interest him, and he is quite satisfied with the first version of the answer that came across, if he just likes or fits his beliefs. When such questions are asked by a space engineer, this is simply an admission of his incompetence, and, unfortunately, such questions are now working at Roscosmos enterprises. Fortunately, they are few.
The lunar conspiracy is a big lie, a big fear and a big venality. It will take thousands of people involved in faking the various stages of the mission. After all, it’s not enough to make a movie, you still need to hide a hundred-meter rocket somewhere after launch, assemble a model of a landing ship, dig it out, and then rip kilometers of the “lunar” surface without a trace. Well, it's Americans, everyone knows how they know how to make movies, love money and are able to tell tales about weapons of mass destruction in Saddam or the nobility of terrorists in Syria. But after all, the lunar conspiracy requires the involvement of a much larger circle of people from other countries. What about the specialists who ensured the flights of Vostok, Voskhod and Soyuz, built the H1 superrocket, and taxied the Lunokhods on the Moon? They had no doubts about the validity of the landing, and tell how they closely followed the American lunar program. So are they idiots or liars? Were they deceived by a Hollywood craft that schoolchildren with photoshop are now exposing, or for some reason did they get involved in the biggest lie in the history of mankind? What about European, Soviet and Russian, Japanese and Indian scientists who studied the lunar soil, launched satellites to the Moon and did not see any signs of a fake? Did they sell out or were they intimidated so that they agreed to lie and sacrifice all their scientific authority?
Or maybe everything is simpler: there was a real landing, our specialists congratulated the competitors on a worthy victory, and cosmonauts, astronauts and scientists from all over the world continued to study space and the Moon together? And only a believer in a conspiracy is ready to admit that the most worthy representatives of humanity are corrupt and / or cowardly liars. What, then, does he think of those around him in everyday life, including you?
The flight to the Moon is the most outstanding achievement of Mankind. The unattainable pinnacle of science and technology of the entire civilization of the Earth. Without Mendeleev, the fuel would not have flared up, without Kepler, the orbit would not have been laid, without Pythagoras, the drawing of the ship and rocket would not have appeared. This is our victory too. Although the Americans left traces in the dust, but without the flights of Gagarin and Leonov, there would have been no steps of Armstrong and Cernan. It was a race, and it is impossible if someone is running alone. This is one of those achievements that is possible only thanks to bold decisions, high concentration of strength and will, faith in a person’s ability to create the impossible and make dreams come true. Denying or even doubting the landing on the moon is a voluntary rejection of all these qualities. Ask the doubters of the lunar program what they think about the construction of the pyramids. I guarantee with a 95% chance that these people will tell you about aliens or the Atlantean civilization or whatever, instead of admitting that a simple Egyptian in a reed bandage with a copper pick in his hands was capable of such an incredible construction. This is not a matter of technology, it is a matter of attitude, because each of us looks at others through the prism of ourselves. Am I capable of great things? It means that others are the same: both the peasant of the Old Kingdom, and the engineer of the USA. So who would you like to be friends with and work with, someone who doesn't believe in themselves and others, or someone who is ready for great things?
"That"s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind ' said Armstrong, but he assured that he actually said: “That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind ”, - just the features of the connection, they say, distorted the sound. In Russian translation, both of these phrases sound the same: "This is one small step for a person, but a giant leap for humanity." However, there is an elusive stylistic nuance here, which greatly upset the leaders of NASA, and indeed all the opponents of the Soviet Union in the then Cold War (and only illiteracy or deliberate inattention of the Soviet authorities can explain the fact that they did not then shout to the whole world about this "clause" ).
« Aman"- this is a" person, just a person, no matter what, but of course, rather John than Ivan, because the Americans were the first to set foot on the moon. BUT "man” without the indefinite article “a” - this is not just a person, but a representative of the entire human race, and therefore the priority of the United States in the lunar breakthrough was not indicated in the historical phrase.
For a long time, Armstrong claimed that he uttered this phrase spontaneously, but then, of course, it turned out that everything was a little different - it was invented by NASA long before the too significant Apollo 11 lunar mission.
Neil suddenly said: "I know you'll like it, but see for yourself," and filed a piece of paper with two lines about the first small step - the indefinite article "a" before the word "man" was not there.
And now, three months after Neil Armstrong's death, his younger brother Dean, in an interview with the BBC, said that Neil decided to do without the indefinite article even before the flight.
Dean Armstrong said that that day, shortly before the launch, they, as always, played their favorite game "Risk" (a game of "conquest of the world", a kind of "monopoly"), started talking about the future of the flight and that it say, stepping on the moon. There were many suggestions, from Shakespearean to biblical phrases. And Neil suddenly said: “I know you will like it, but see for yourself,” and handed him a piece of paper with two lines about the first small step - the indefinite article “a” before the word “man" there was no.
In July 1969, Neil Armstrong (like Gagarin, a first-class military pilot) did what none of his team could do - in unexpectedly difficult conditions, he turned off the computer that could not cope with the situation and managed to manually land his device on the moon. He was a great man in his own way, but he did not want to be a great man of one event, and subsequently quickly said goodbye to NASA, returned to his native state of Ohio, taught aeronautics at the university, flew his own plane, avoided interviews and announced his flight to the moon : "I was just doing my job." Most likely, he was against communist Russia, but did not want to make a difference between the two in this great step, and therefore deliberately omitted the indefinite article "a", which was so important for the Cold War era. Perhaps, however, there are other explanations for his act.
45 years ago, on July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Sea of Tranquility.
They were taken to the Moon by the Apollo 11 spacecraft.
American astronauts spent 21 hours, 36 minutes and 21 seconds on the moon. It is known that Buzz Aldrin was a Freemason, more details.
Neil Armstrong, stepping on the moon, said the words that the whole world knows:
"It's one small step for a man, but a giant leap for all mankind."
The success of Apollo 11 meant the victory of the United States over the USSR in the exploration of the moon. But something went wrong. Let's figure it out.
UFO on the moon
The Americans canceled the lunar program not because they had no money. Apollo flights 18, 19 and 20 have already been paid for.
They were forced to do this because they encountered unknown extraterrestrial forces on the surface of the moon during the first flight to the moon.
Alien ships flew all the time near the Apollo 11 during the flight of American astronauts to the moon in 1969.
Neil Armstrong, the crew commander, constantly reported this to the NASA control center. But what could they do?
Already on the moon, Armstrong was ordered not to go to the lunar surface, but he disobeyed and went to the moon.
Because of this, in the future, he was suspended from space flights, while receiving the strictest reprimand.
A unique audio recording is known in which Neil Armstrong speaks in understandable words about UFO on the moon. This recording, which was conducted over a secret, closed communication channel, was made public by former NASA President Christopher Craft.
The motives of his act are unclear, because Kraft was a high-ranking freemason, and they know how to keep secrets. But, be that as it may, the record exists and it is genuine. It can be easily found on the Internet.
Here is an excerpt from the conversation between Neil Armstrong, the captain of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, and NASA Mission Control. The recording was made on July 21, 1969 on the Moon, in the Sea of Tranquility.
NASA - Repeat your last message.
Armstrong - I say there are other spaceships here. They stand in a straight line on the other side of the crater.
NASA - Repeat, repeat.
Armstrong - Let us probe this sphere. 125 to 5. Automatic relay connected. My hands are shaking so badly that I can't do anything. Take it off? Oh my God, if those damn cameras pick up anything, what then?
NASA - Can you film anything?
Armstrong - I don't have any tape on hand anymore. Three skewer shots or whatever you call that thing ruined the film.
NASA - Regain control. Are they in front of you? Any UFO noises?
Armstrong - They landed here. They are here and they are watching us.
Initially, the expedition to the moon was planned with one goal in mind: to find alien UFO bases. The Americans hoped to get evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence on the Moon and, if they were lucky, acquire new technologies there.
As a result of the flight to the moon, the Americans were given to understand that they had nothing to do there. Extraterrestrial forces based on the Moon ended up driving the Americans away from the Moon.
The Russians were also well aware of UFO on the moon. The testimonies of Soviet cosmonauts eloquently testify to this. If desired, the Russians could be the first to be on the moon.
But they prudently chose to launch pieces of iron on it - moon rovers, and not risk people.
"There are extraterrestrial forces that are stronger than we thought. I have no right to say anything more about this."
Wernher von Braun - head of the American lunar program
The Germans developed their science very powerfully. In fact, they created many of the things that we use now, it's just that other countries snapped up patents after the war.
For example, former Nazi Wernher von Braun and his associates took the United States into space. If it were not for the Germans, who were taken to the United States after the war, it is not known whether the United States would have flown to the moon or not.
When the Soviet satellite reached the moon and the Americans landed on the moon for the first time, flashes went on the surface of the moon and some of the craters disappeared. Perhaps these were alien bases disguised as "craters".
Flashes were recorded by the space agencies of all countries who observed the Moon at that time. This is not a fake. These are well-known facts that are not customary to talk about.
From 1968 to 1972, the US sent a number of people to the moon. Twelve of them walked along it. Since then, no one has returned to the moon. Over the years, much of what these people did while they were there has either become of no interest to the public or is simply ignored. Most people know that Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the moon, and that's enough.
Thanks to the popular movie, many of us are familiar with the Apollo 13 mission, which miraculously returned to Earth after an onboard explosion. However, there are still tons of interesting facts about what these people did and said during their historical journeys. We have compiled a list of such facts for you.
One of the most popular photographs of the first moon landing shows Buzz Aldrin standing next to an American flag. However, this flag had a very unfortunate fate, as it fell a few hours later when Neil Armstrong returned to the command module. After Aldrin pressed the rocket launch button, he looked out the window and saw how the nozzle explosion swept everything away, including the infamous flag.
Remarkably, the other flags still on the Moon, placed there by successive astronauts, and which were placed far enough away from the rocket, all turned white. For forty years, unfiltered sunlight and radiation have completely burned out the red and blue colors.
Unauthorized psychic experiments
During the Apollo 14 mission, unbeknownst to the Houston authorities (and even the crew members), Edgar D. Mitchell performed several unscheduled extrasensory perception experiments. During the first hours of his sleep time on the way to the moon and back, Mitchell focused on the symbols that are commonly used in psychic trials. Together with a group of doctors in Florida, he arranged the sessions in advance, hoping to figure out if thoughts could be transmitted thousands of kilometers into space. The results were zero, to put it mildly.
Apparently, Mitchell and his partners on Earth were out of sync. In any case, the results were published in the 1971 issue of The Journal of Parapsychology, for no reason.
When we think of astronauts, the stern and strong-willed men who participated in the beginning of the space program, we would never imagine them sobbing and wiping away tears if not for Alan Shepard. Truly, this is one of the most underrated American astronauts. Not only was he one of the first Americans in space, but at the age of 47, he became the oldest person to ever walk on the moon. After resigning from the space program a few years earlier due to an inner ear disorder, Shepard vowed to fight the affliction and return to the game. In early 1971, he was part of the Apollo 14 mission.
By the way, this is the same astronaut who on the Moon made the longest throw in history (“for miles and miles”). However, few people know that this very astronaut could not restrain his emotions when he took his first steps on the lunar surface. Alan Shepard cried while standing on the moon. Although what is there such a thing - in the end, he could not wipe his tears in any way.
Lunar communion
Astronauts have been warned by NASA bosses that since virtually the entire world will be listening, they should not participate in any religious ordinances while traveling to the moon. Since they represent the whole of humanity, why offend members of other faiths? However, Buzz Aldrin considered the occasion too important to let slip by.
Thus, after the landing was completed and everyone was waiting for the historic steps, Aldrin turned on the radio and asked everyone who was listening to find a way to mark this moment in history and thank everyone they saw fit. For him, this meant opening a small flask of wine and taking out the loaves of bread he had brought with him. After reciting a passage from the Gospel, he ate bread and drank wine, becoming the first and so far the only person to honor the Christian ritual of communion on the moon. Neil Armstrong watched his partner with respect but indifference.
First words
Neil Armstrong's famous words when he took the first step on the moon are (according to the official story): "It's one small step for a man, but a giant leap for all mankind." Of course, these words have become the subject of endless debate, plus many argue that he misspoke and said not “for a man”, but “for a man”, which slightly underestimates the significance of his words.
In fact, the first words that were spoken on the surface of the moon while still inside the ship are usually understood as the first words after a safe landing, namely: “Houston, here is the base of tranquility. The eagle has landed. However, there was so much technical jargon exchanged between the astronauts before and after these words that it's actually hard to tell which words were first spoken on the Moon.
To complicate matters further, Armstrong's landing was so soft that no one could be completely sure what he said immediately after landing. Decryptions come down to three possible options. Aldrin could indicate that the contact light had turned on by saying "contact light". Armstrong could then instruct Aldrin to turn off the trigger motor with the words "switch off". Aldrin turned off the engine and said "ok, stop the engine." None of these phrases were significant, so it is perhaps better to take Armstrong's message to mission control in Houston as a starting point.
What does the moon smell like?
Astronauts visiting the moon were surprised by its pungent smell. Of course, they didn't feel it until they got back to the lunar module and took off their suits. The smallest powder was everywhere, on the hands and on the faces of the astronauts. Some have tasted moon dust. But the first contact of lunar dust with oxygen in four billion years gave rise to a very specific smell.
Most astronauts described it as the smell of spent gunpowder, which they were familiar with from their military service. Why did he smell like that? Unknown. Chemically, the moon and gunpowder are not similar at all, so there are various theories as to why this happened. The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, said that the moon smelled like wet ashes in a fireplace.
Records or prestige
Of course, "-11" can be called the "highlight of the program", and in general this is a very expressive moment in space exploration by mankind. However, the dress rehearsal for this mission, Apollo 10, set several records that have yet to be broken. In addition to the cool names (Command Module Charlie Brown and Lunar Module Snoopy), the three men who flew on the mission went down in history as the people who traveled further from home than anyone else. Eugene Cernan, Thomas Stafford, and John Young traveled more than 408,950 kilometers from Houston when they reached the far side of the moon.
Due to the timing of their mission, the Moon was particularly far from the Earth, and the planet's rotation flipped Houston to the opposite side of the Earth. Even though the crew of Apollo 13 was technically further from the Earth's surface, Apollo 13 traveled a gigantic distance from its launch point. After setting this record, the team set another one - they picked up a speed of 39,897 kilometers per hour, returning home. At the moment, this is the maximum speed at which a person has ever moved.
Lunar Module Pilots
Astronaut Pete Conrad was a man who expanded horizons. As commander of Apollo 12, the second manned flight to the Moon, he waited until his module was on the dark side of the Moon and out of radio signals, and then did the unthinkable: on the way from the surface of the Moon to the lunar module, he allowed his pilot to fly, " hold the helm." Thus, he, as it were, showed that "lunar module pilot" is not just a name.
The job of the lunar module pilot (like many others) was to ensure that the commander received all the information needed to fly under his command. He could only fly the lunar module if the commander couldn't fly for certain reasons that never happened. As they drifted on the dark side of the moon, Conrad turned to the pilot, Alan Bean, and said, "You can steer this transport for a minute." Surprised but pleased, Bean was happy to take control, if only for a little while.
Priceless sculpture
David Scott, commander of Apollo 15, wanted to pay tribute to the many people who . Before starting his mission, he asked the Belgian artist Paul von Hooydonk to create a small statue that could honor all the astronauts - American and Russian - who died in pursuit of the dream of all mankind. The sculpture looked like a human, but did not represent race, gender, or nationality. There was no commercial profit from the goodwill gesture, just a tribute to the memory of all the astronauts who died in the line of duty.
The artist agreed, and on August 1, 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 left a finger-sized figurine on top of Mons Hadley, next to a plaque bearing the names of 14 famous cosmonauts who had died (in fact, two more Soviet cosmonauts had died by this point, but the USSR not reported yet). A few years later, the artist decided to "raise" some money by selling signed copies of the sculpture, but Scott convinced him that this was a violation of the agreement. Perhaps someday a small statue will be in the lunar museum on the surface of the moon.
scientist on the moon
As the Apollo program was canceled due to budget cuts, NASA came under more and more pressure from the scientific community to send a real scientist to the Moon while possible. Up to this point, NASA had only sent its own test pilots trained as astronauts. But they took only an abbreviated course in geology and, of course, could not replace those who devoted their whole lives to the study of rocks.
What did Neil Armstrong eat on the moon?
We have already learned that when the rocket took off, the American flag fixed on the Moon fell due to the explosion of the nozzle. We also learned that the first words of a man on the moon sounded different than is commonly believed. But do you know what kind of food the astronauts tried during the first landing on the surface of our satellite?
It is believed that the first dish Neil Armstrong tasted on the moon was a baked turkey. Of course, it was not at all like a Thanksgiving dish, but was in liquid form. But the second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, tasted bread and wine. The fact is that he was an elder in the church and decided to conduct the Christian rite of the Eucharist.
With that in mind, NASA began hiring scientists and training them in astronautics, right down to how to fly a plane. These guys had no chance, but when it became known that Apollo 17 would be the last mission to the moon, Harrison Schmitt, a Harvard geologist, was called. He had completed the intensive training required to qualify as an astronaut and was ready to go.
Needless to say, sending a geologist to the moon is like sending a military historian during the Great Patriotic War. Schmitt spent three days poking around on the moon and even brought back some interesting specimens. Other scientists went into space later, but Schmitt remained one of those who walked on the moon.
