First moon mission was a touch-and-go event: new documentary
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NEW YORK: A new documentary reveals that the Americans were so eager to show their one-upmanship over the Russians that they launched the mission to moon without much scientific or technical precision or the required precautions. The mission came to be launched in hope rather than in expectation.
The doucmentary, Apollo 11: The Untold Story, brings out several lacunae that would have ended up in disaster.
The uncertainty was so strong that the then U.S. president Richard Nixon had even prepared an address to the nation announcing that the three astronauts -- Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins -- had died in a space mishap.
Aldrin, now 76, interviewed by the makers of the documentary, narrated how he found to his dismay that a vital switch got damaged as one of the astronauts brushed against it in a bulky spacesuit. He said as he looked around some of the lunar dust on the floor, he found that there was something that did not belong to the moon -- a broken part of a circuit breaker. That was a vital link for the trio to return to the earth in safety. "In the countdown procedure, I used a pen, one of several that we had on board that didn't have metal on the end, and we used that to push the circuit breaker in."
The documentary also provides an account of the crisis that occurred when the landing module was thrown off course by a computer breakdown just as it was about to land. As the astronauts tried to find out what really went wrong, they also noticed that the spaceship had very inadequate fuel. The trio was 100 feet from landing and the vehicle had only fuel for 60 seconds. "Without trying to disturb Neil's concentration my body language was urging him to 'Get on the ground as soon as you can', Aldrin told the makers of the documentary.
Armstrong managed to land with just 15 seconds of fuel left.
There were also problems about escape procedures for the astronauts in case of an eventuality. Classified documents that have been made public indicate that NASA scientists never told the astronauts that the escape procedures could be useless as they would work only if the Saturn V rocket that powered their craft had broken off.
The U.S. government had already ordered the ground control to cut off links with the astronauts if any disaster occurred. The government was more concerned about a whole world watching the American astronauts spinning back into space.
Aldrin also revealed that he and other astronauts had reported seeing a UFO during the flight, but NASA had covered it up. He said, "There was something out there, close enough to be observed, and what could it be?
"Now, obviously, the three of us weren't going to blurt out, 'Hey Houston, we've got something moving alongside of us and we don't know what it is you know?'
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sop yrking around and solve !
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kyoleon ,
Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:26:08 GMT
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Evolutanary achivment for humanity ? The moon missi.....The UFO discovery O_o ,Past Century human thinking grew lead to new booming Tecnological developments ,when thought with open mind considering facts and logic UFO that was seen could be a future traveling vichicle invented by humans or we could be expiremental lifeforms created by planetary being now we call GOD ,or it could simply be hallusination of astronomer created by low presure on extreme change of altitude ,answers will soon be known as our conciosness grows ^_^\
My peronal logical opinion on it the reason the Nasa hid their secrets is that they are humans ,and considering "Average" citizen of that day it could have sprong national and religious disorder creating protests and lovering concentation of workforce on "we are not alone " protests ,but now information is free flowing ,its not a bad thing but too much abuse of freedom with meaningless lawsuits and protests as well as violence ,world is not perfect ;Science will be the key ,but for now I hope you understand why NASA "tucked away" those facts ,put yorself in leaders shoes ...how is that ??? too big???!!!!! ^_^
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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MOrpheus ,
Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:27:09 GMT
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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the moon and aliens
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Amanda ,
Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:49:01 GMT
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If NASA knows things we don't...don't you think it will stay that way? Mass hysteria of global proportians would be very scary even more scary than seeing a UFO or aliens.
Maybe NASA is protecting us from ourselves?
hmmmmm....LOL
--Amanda
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moon landing
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rhayzerbak ,
Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:33:23 GMT
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I would like to believe that we had accomplished the moon landing
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Aliens
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Paul Higginbotham ,
Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:55:43 GMT
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Let me describe what happened when I was a child living in a suburb of Boston called Winthrop, I am now 47 and living in Georgia.
Picture this, I am seven years old and I'm lying in a cot in my cousin's bedroom. His cot is on the other side of the room. It is the middle of the night and very dark; we didn't have a night light.
Dave and I were on the third floor of a brown, wooden apartment tenement. The walls were rough hewn chocolate brown wood with no sheet-rock, you could see daylight out through the cracks. Nothing fancy, my uncle had just started working for the fire department.
In the middle of the night, I awakened when I felt pressure on my cot. I looked down at the foot of my cot and one of them was sitting on it. The other two were standing at the foot of the cot looking at me. There was a faint light emanating from them somehow so I could barely discern them. The light eventually brightened. Later, much later, even now, I can still recall the beautiful, vivid electric blue light.
They were tiny, thin, gray; no more than three feet tall. They looked very fragile. However, I didn't have any fear of them. They communicated to me through telepathy. They didn't say much. All I can remember them "saying" to me was do not be frightened and I wasn't.
As I watched, a circle of beautiful, brilliant, and indescribable blue light appeared behind them. I remember one of them going into the light and I knew this was where I was going too. This entire episode lasted about three minutes. I remember falling asleep before they were gone. Dave never woke up throughout this entire ordeal.
How can I describe them? Well, you've seen them in stickers, pictures, you know, the typical alien, large heads, black oval eyes too large in proportion to their heads, a slit for a mouth and two small holes for a nose. Their long spindly limbs seemed to be too frail, yet there they were.
When I woke up the next morning, my left pinky finger was aching. I felt it and in the middle segment of the digit I felt what seemed to be a BB of some sort. I knew it wasn't there before. I told my mother about the entire incident, and she beat me severely and would not even consider feeling the 'BB' in my finger. So I suffered in silence for many years.
Since then I have asked my doctor if he'd x-ray my finger and he said not unless there was a reason to. I didn't tell him why, or he'd probably think I was nuts. I've been x-rayed for chest pains repeatedly, and I have always semi-jokingly asked the x-ray tech if they've ever done alien implant x-rays or has anyone ever requested one.They'd always laugh and tell me no, but "We have found a lot of interesting things in rectums!"
My doctor says the 'BB' in my finger is a fatty deposit, but I disagree because I knew it wasn't there the night before I saw them. No one believed me. You are only the third person on this planet that I have related this story to.
I think it is like a tag. I haven't seen them since. And no, this was not a dream. It was the real McCoy. It really, actually happened. How could I have known what they looked like at that age? According to my parents and my uncle, I described them perfectly. They were exactly like the ones you see described by thousands of people worldwide.
This might sound strange, but I have a FEELING, just a feeling, mind you, that they have protected me throughout my life. They have caused me to have success. Strange isn't it? I have never been hurt, or in a car wreck, or received a speeding ticket, or been arrested for DUI, NOTHING. It is very odd.
I think it is very possible that they are monitoring and especially influencing thoughts. When I was a child, after the incident with the aliens, my mother was amazed at the things I would come up with. I would make innocent predictions (remember I was a kid) and they would come true. She was dumbfounded. She said I could predict the future. I think she was afraid of me and that's why she beat me so much and made me sleep at other relative's houses.
How about this, for an example:
I worked for Delta Airlines and about, I dunno, maybe 8 years ago I had a vivid dream, more of a premonition. It involved a USAir MD-80 aircraft taking off in Pittsburgh and crashing shortly after. I saw a clear, sunny sky, snow on the ground, and the airplane taking off, it was bright silver; and immediately after takeoff it nose-dived into the ground right in front of me. I saw flames and black smoke. Well, I told this story to two of my friends at work two days before it happened. I told them as much detail as I could and lo and behold, two days later the crash happened exactly as I foresaw it. They were amazed.
Then, one day I was sitting in the cabin of an L-1011 that was ready to go out. I was all alone as it was lunch time, and I didn't want to go to lunch, so I sat and lay back in the seat. All of a sudden a loud word came screaming into my mind; it was "Caggianos." Now this was the name of the funeral home my family and most of my small town outside Boston had used for ages. When I got home I told my wife that we were going to get a call from my mother telling me her father died but we wouldn't get it till late at night. Sure enough, at around 2:00 in the morning the phone rings and I said, "Ma, Gramps died and they're going to have him in Caggiano's aren't they?" She asked me whether someone else had called and told me and I told her no, no one had called, so I told her the story about being on the airplane when the word popped into my mind. That has happened several times since, both with people dying and aircraft crashing.
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we knew then ,now what?
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Erik Lievano ,
Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:14:33 GMT
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its funny the way things are turning everytime we open a new chapter in past account of fly operations out of this planet,then they were forbiden to especulate or to even say somthing like this,and they probably have it on film.The US and Brittan has been in direct contact with other galaxy visitors for more than 40 years and us the piblic have been denied the oportunity of grasping the ultimate knoledge of life and just because Religion plus goverments are going to be ridiculized.Some of us that are(or have been in direct mind communications)awere of the outcome of this folish world politics,know that when it happens it would be the end of everything as we know.Keep dreaming!
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A curious bit...
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Dr. Fuwell ,
Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:28:16 GMT
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To the commentor titled "Whatever": The proof-via-rock stance doesn't necessarily hold quite enough water as it were. And, seeing it or even possibly holding it is, for all effective purposes, ineffective. It's highly circumstantial evidence in and of itself when one applies some other factors. Factors such as: Lava aggregations, corals, and most notably, meteorites. Probably about half the Asteroid Belt consists of stones with 40+% oxygen. Basically, your statement is zero proof. A truly genuine "Moon rock" would have been drilled as a core sample from the Lunar surface...and filmed for documentation and proof. I'm pretty sure NASA didn't acquire the famous rocks in that manner almost 40 yrs ago. If they did, there would be an entirely other historical issue to examine.
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suckers born every millisecond
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Jim O ,
Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:53:48 GMT
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Crockumentaries such as this one keep getting made because the industry knows there are plenty of drooling fools who'll swallow anything -- and they sell commercial time during the shows to clients who just LOVE to get their message in front of idiots who -- will -- believe -- ANYthing... like you guys, it seems.
Save yourselves. Read, Think, Be informed and rational.
IT'S
NOT
TOO
LATE
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Yes, we did go to the moon...
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whatever ,
Thu, 27 Jul 2006 05:15:54 GMT
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The subject says it all. Get a clue people. Just because something appears on Google doesn't mean that it's authentic or verified. See http://homepages.wmich.edu/~korista/moonhoax2.html which, yes, I got off of Google too. Duhh.
Wake the #($*& up, people. Get your head out your @$$ and move on with your life. We have the rocks to prove we went to the moon, with their insanely high oxygen content to prove it (what rocks on Earth, ANYWHERE, have some 42% oxygen by mass?).
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Dr. Fuqwell II
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Dr. Fuqwell ,
Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:46:53 GMT
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So, basically, what you're trying to say is that the Russians ARE the aliens, and that the Moon was already a Russian low-gravity ski resort. And, that the UFOs were simply playing hide-and-seek with Aldrin and crew. Brilliant! Why didn't i think of that? Lol.
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Cynics
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Drew ,
Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:20:26 GMT
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I am sick and tired of all you Liberal cynics. The moon landing was one of the greatest achievements in the history of the world at that time. Now you young Liberal college yuppies think you know everything because your college professors told you so, and you take their word as Gospel. For Christ Sake, think for yourselves for once and, be patriotic and understand we don't need to know everything that goes on.
Secrets are made and kept for a reason. Not to get one over, but to protect our way of life. Remember the old saying during WWII, loose lips sink ships. Every American, including the NY Times and Every American Media outlet treated it as Gospel and we won the war.
Today, the loose lips are sinking more than ships, they destroying the once great country known as "The United States Of America". I guess you Liberals can't grasp that concept.
Remember, what’s happening today in the world was not brought on by the President of the United States, It was brought on by Terrorists, and those who think otherwise wanted the united stated to be destroyed even before 9/11.
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bob
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bob ,
Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:48:39 GMT
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Who cares about all that, he seen a u.f.o. That means the russians were there first watching, lol.
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Continued...
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Dr. Fuqwell ,
Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:23:13 GMT
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"evidence", or confirmations or failures of prior theories - which leads to what exactly? Well, for two things, alot of money and disasters. Should we mine precious hearts here, or pointless rubies on Mars? Frankly, i'm downright ashamed to be a member of Earth.
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So yeah...!
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Dr. Fuqwell ,
Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:38:46 GMT
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Both sides of this controversy have good points. Obviously, only NASA knows the truth. Personally, i could give two shits if we've been to the moon, if we beat another country, or if we collaborated with another country. By this i mean, how exactly does a piece of fabric left as proof on the moon matter to the average citizen? And, it all the more doesn't matter to an entire country of starving and diseased good humans. Do they care? Will some sort of pride in the fact that humanity can reach the moon or Mars lessen one's anorexia through consolation? This country's priorities have been all wrong - technology as a solo progression means nothing whatsoever. I could give not two but ten shits about everything the esteemed NASA has or hasn't achieved. Any significant discoveries meet one or more of three general fates: New questions and new theories which seem to equate to a dog chasing its tail, controversial claims or \
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Cosmic Radiation, (Gamma) Survival/Shielding?
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Dutch ,
Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:13:49 GMT
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Still waiting for NASA to explain how Astronauts were able to survive unscathed on the Moon trip without proper knowledge of and shielding for, the Cosmic (Gamma) Radiation that was not accounted for at the time? It is known that the Shuttle has to stay in a low orbit, inside the Earth's Magnetosphere for protection to cut down on the harmful effects......and then there were all those Nuclear detonations in space in the 60's...Hmmmmm
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US govt., this is how it is.
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St Ann ,
Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:53:42 GMT
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You see this is how it is: "The U.S. government had already ordered the ground control to cut off links with the astronauts if any disaster occurred." For the US government its like a sports match with no real concern for its citizens. Of course, "The government was more concerned about a whole world watching the American astronauts spinning back into space," because it's like game of flag-waving patriots cheering. ... When will the US government get real and quit flirting with glory? What we need is a government that is really concerned about its citizens and quit trying to be NUMBER ONE. We don't need to be no. 1, we need a bit more caring for our own.
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U.S. has not really gone to moon.
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Marcel Tjoeng ,
Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:36:39 GMT
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You're refering to Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey) being hired by NASA (NSA, CIA) to produce the famous Fake Moon Shots, in a studio first thought somewhere in Nevada, but later blurped by Kubrick to be in France (and he was probably killed for this by the USA Dark Forces). This was all a backup plan, for if the mission would fail. It appearantly didnt, and then the remourmill went haywire.
And the conspirators are: the Illuminati. Google for it.
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same as usual
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Farid ,
Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:35:54 GMT
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as usual nasa failed to consider everything before starting a mission & they are still doing it.
thankfully things worked out as they did on the last shuttle mission.
the last thing nasa needs is another columbia/challenger/apollo1/apollo13 disaster.
maybe one day they will wake up & get things right.
maybe one day we will achieve the future as designed by gene roddenberry.
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If your doubts are true...
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buz-houston ,
Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:19:39 GMT
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...then can you get someone to bring me back that darned flag. While they're there, be sure to rake the ground of all the old foot prints to leave the place ready for any other foursome that might be playing through. If you have any doubts, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The camera and other parts from Surveyor 3 were brought back by the Apollo 12 crew. They landed about 180 meters from S3 and walked over to it during an EVA and removed the camera and a few other pieces of hardware. S3 had been sitting on the Lunar surface for about two and a half years. Aside from that we have Moon rocks, archived footage, and people who were there.
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Doubts
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joginder ,
Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:43:13 GMT
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hey this is jogs. recently i heard that U.S. has not really gone to moon. if so how many countries had made the expedition..
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