I came across a great artifact—a Monday, July 21, 1969 edition of The Odessa American, a Texas newspaper, with this particular edition all about the ‘awesome’ moon landings.
I must say, I’m rather shocked at the disgraceful condition the astronauts of Apollo 11 left their host space. I mean really, we go to the park and are ordered to ‘leave no trace’ — while they, the great men of the world, are allowed to pollute everywhere they go.
Costly Junk Left Behind On The Moon
Space Center, Houston (AP) — Two Apollo 11 astronauts leave behind one of the most expensive junk yards in the universe when they lift off from the moon today.
They discarded almost $1 million worth of cameras, tools, and breathing equipment up there. The cameras included the black and white television camera that captured their moon walk for the world. This camera cost the Aeronautics and Space Administration $250,000.
Also in the litter—a Kodak worth $50,000 and a Hasselblad camera that cost $11, 176.
After returning to the moon lander’s cabin, the astronauts opened the hatch and dumped the back packs which kept them alive during their walk.
Each of these units, called the Portable Life Support System, cost NASA $300,000. Moon tools designed especially for the astronauts added to the junk pile. Tongs, a scoop, a long-handled hammer, an extension handle and other items were dropped when the space men were through with them. These tools cost $45,000.
Largest item to be left was the descent stage of the lunar module. NASA is reluctant to put a cost on this two-ton piece of metal since it’s only part of a lunar module that cost $41 million. Even if the spacecraft stage hadn’t been left on the moon, it could never have been returned to earth; it has no heat shield.
An American flag was left on the moon. The space agency doesn’t know how much it cost and doesn’t want to.
NASA bought a large number of flags from different manufacturers, a spokesman said, and then removed all labels. One was selected at random.
“We’ve no idea which one is up there,” said the spokesman. “This was so no company could make a big thing of their flag being on the moon.”
A silicone-water bearing electronically-reduced messages of goodwill from 78 countries cost NASA nothing. A private firm produced it at no cost to the government.
A plaque bearing the autographs of the astronauts and of President Nixon couldn’t be priced. It was made in the metal shop at NASA of materials already at hand.”
I sure do hope the next men that land there will be thoughtful enough to take out the trash! 😂
never went in the first place outside of hollywood and studio. they can’t get off the planet and God help the universe if they ever do find a way past the radiation belt. they would lay waste to every world they run across plus the trash and debris would be an easy to follow path to where they went and where they came from.
fake moon landing leaving fake equipment. fake news from the fake nasa….never a straight answer.
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What about the other countries claiming they are/were there?
“India’s successful landing comes just days after Russia’s Luna-25, which was aiming for the same lunar region, spun into an uncontrolled orbit and crashed. It would have been the first successful Russian lunar landing after a gap of 47 years. Russia’s head of the state-controlled space corporation Roscosmos attributed the failure to the lack of expertise due to the long break in lunar research that followed the last Soviet mission to the moon in 1976.“
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i doubt it. it doesn’t matter which country. they haven’t been there. they can’t get there. they lie a lot….i doubt their probes to other worlds or to mars as well. they are lying. period if they had made it to the moon they would have gathered up people to put them there to colonize it.
they haven’t been there. they haven’t been to mars or venus or jupiter. all lies for the consumption of the public. and a funnel for unlimited amounts of money to launder where ever they want.
they would have put the public out on those planets and broadcasted it 24 / 7 telling people to sign up you too can go to the moon. or mars…they haven’t done it. first thing they do when they want to ”tame” an area is send in the poor to do the work. send in the miners to dig deep. send in the people that expendable. hasn’t happened. if they had actually gone there even CHINA…they would have a moon base by now….and not care at all about the people they killed getting it done. hasn’t happened! isn’t going to happen.
they can’t get their machines past the van allen radiation belt. not people. not satellite. not machines. period. they don’t have moon rovers on mars. in a studio or in the desert here on this planet and then say…oh looky what we found on mars? yeah…right….food for the gullible. that is all it is.
doesn’t take much critical thinking to figure out they LIE!
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space agencies world wide are the exact same as ours. all liars. it works great to deceive people into thinking they have ‘science’ and power…and can do amazing things like space travel…when they never have and never will.
i see space news for star gazing ect and have seen some that said NASA FOUND another earth like planet that can be colonized…..how did they find it? through the looking glass as Alice says! lol….literally…they looked through a telescope and declared it is habitable to humans! hahaha….having never been off this world they would know that another one can support our lifeforms….what a joke….look through a telescope and be bold enough to make that lie! and they can tell the exact distance how many miles away and how air and water are on the planet and how many light years it would take to get there…..WOW….all that info from a looking glass…..amazing!! hahaha….and that is point….they want people to believe in their science and believe they have the ability to tell what is in space. where. how and when it can be conquered and colonized….
what arrogance ….and it isn’t just the never a straight answer agency…it is all of them…all governments around the world are lock step in the same bed spouting the same lies to their populations as well as usa population. all governments are the same…..they walk same…lie the same…all buddies having dinner together deceiving the world and laughing about it to each other.
every bit of it is a lie. in every country of the world. they all figured out a great way to make themselves look like heros and gods!! we can travel the galaxy…right…and funnel billions and billions of dollars to programs that are hollywood studios and made up stories for public consumption.
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HA! Well said Highlander, I think you’ve nailed it!
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Don’t you worry, they didn’t leave a mess on the moon. You have to actually go there to leave a mess.
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It’s not just my dream – – –
“I want to build a spaceship, go to the moon, salvage all the junk that’s up there, bring it back, sell it.”
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Personally, I don’t believe it’ll be much of a haul. Getting there would be impossible.
But whatever ***
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Eh, what would anyone want with some old cameras anyway?
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Well, if the technology was still viable, it would mean a lot for today. We can’t produce the same quality imagery in that harsh environment with any of today’s cameras.
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Wait, you mean to tell me we can’t get a high res pic of the moon and stars while in space? Maybe that’s b/c the cameras are pointing in the wrong direction?! 😏
“For decades, privacy experts have been wary of snooping from space. They feared satellites powerful enough to zoom in on individuals, capturing close-ups that might differentiate adults from children or suited sunbathers from those in a state of nature.
Now, quite suddenly, analysts say, a startup is building a new class of satellite whose cameras would, for the first time, do just that.
“We’re acutely aware of the privacy implications,” Topher Haddad, head of Albedo Space, the company making the new satellites, said in an interview. His company’s technology will image people but not be able to identify them, he said. Albedo, Mr. Haddad added, was nonetheless taking administrative steps to address a wide range of privacy concerns.”
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I don’t know what to say about that… except…
I know not to believe everything that the internet, or science, or people (in general) tell me.
Do you honestly believe those are contrails in the sky?
There are so many cons
And for the record – I do know what I could say but wouldn’t change your belief (I’m not here to try anyway).
What you know is what you have been taught.
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Ok, you know this blog! I write about geoengineering and of course I know the moon landings were fake. What are you talking about?
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I know you may not believe me, but not all your visitors are on the same wave length.
There are many pretenders out there.
Now that you mention it. I wish I could edit my commentary so it wouldn’t sound so personal – but unlike youtube, wordpress doesn’t make it easy, and it’s almost non-existent.
Sorry, I was rambling (like I sometimes do with my comment).
I took your comment and went in the opposite direction than I intended.
I apologize
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I was worried they turned you into a bot, especially now that you have a cartoon avatar. 😉
No worries. Thanks for clarification.
And, since you’re here, what’s your personal opinion—what % of the global public would you guess believes India and Russia are now on the moon?
And, could you believe we didn’t go then, but others are there now—like, are those two mutually exclusive? And, do you think a lot of folks follow it knowing it is fake, kind of like a lot of those who are pro-wrestling fans?
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I don’t know, really. The percentage of believers – I just can’t fathom a number that would even be close.
Maybe it’s just entertainment to the people. You know, like the pro-wrestling fascination. I don’t put much energy into thinking about the space”race” programs.
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If India and Russia landed on the moon, it must be the dark side. It’s a virtual media blackout response.
I suppose there’s not much to say, so it’s all quiet on the dark side of the moon ( que close encounteres theme music)
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Greetings!
Obviously I’m not Kenneth, but I’d like to weigh in on your comment. I read that same article you quoted at needtoknow.news yesterday (GEG’s site). It’s interesting.
I had read somewhere and some (5?10?) years ago that NASA was the largest purchaser of helium in the world. Do they use helium in rockets? I don’t know, but I have an empty tank of helium from a few years back that we used for our daughter’s birthday…for balloons. (I should try to find it and see if it was distributed anywhere near Roswell!). NOAA, and weather balloons; I could see them as the largest purchaser, but NASA? Maybe they throw a lot of birthday parties to keep employee morale high.
I know an Air Force retiree who worked on the SR-71 “Blackbird”. He said a guy asked him once if that plane could get a picture of his license plate that was legible. He told the guy “no”. He then told me that what he didn’t tell the guy was that if his vehicle was pointing up, standing on end, it probably could read the plate! The resolution was that good, even then. I’m just guessing, but I think they still used film then, too. The SR-71 was retired when ‘satellites’ took over.
With all the geoengineering going on, could satellite-based cameras see through the muck (deposited/sprayed/injected to combat global warming, of course) to capture images? The cameras would have to be digital, I assume, and maybe technology exists that does allow vision through clouds. But I think images would not be consistent due to clouds, natural or otherwise.
I thought of the above things as I read that article yesterday. The original article was from the New York Times. It was picked up by Patrick Wood/Technocracy.News. Not sure I trust the Times. I’m giving Mr Wood a pass on this one. We have enough cameras down here already. I think the story is fear-porn. (And could work…we still have people that believe that there are invisible partial particles of non-living genetic material frozen in Antarctic ice that are ‘gonna get us’ when all the ice melts.)
No moon landing, no cameras “in space”.
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Nice, thanks for the details! The privacy paranoia helps them sell more crap to the folks who can afford it, that’s for sure.
And your helium comment, now there’s a really interesting rabbit hole to me. I started looking into radium, and that can lead you into lead (HA, get it?!), and all kinds of mining of other minerals and it gets very interesting very quickly. What about the real story behind the dirigibles? The air ships, zeppelins, there’s a big story there and it’s not what they tell us. They are stealing the good tech and selling us back the crap is what I think. And then blaming us for all the pollution that crap produces!
Could the cameras see through the muck? Great question. One point for pollution! 😆
Agreed about some of the articles PW picks up on. Exhausting all these discernment requirements.
But, there are ‘cameras in space’ right—you can put anyone’s address in google earth and see their house and garden—pretty invasive, no? Pretty cool, too, at one level, but still, it does make it seem like ‘real-time spying’ would be the next big thing.
Thanks for sharing, appreciating the ideas!
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I sure would like to know how Google earth gets their photos! It seems odd to me that most of the photos I’ve seen show very sparse traffic. Do they take the photos on Sundays or holidays, when there’s normally very little traffic? I don’t recall seeing too much foot traffic, activity in parks, tennis courts, bike paths, etc. Maybe they photoshop them out.
Why doesn’t NASA turn the HST (Hubble Space Telescope) toward the moon and get pics of all the landing sites and litter from the Apollo missions? Clear shot! No atmosphere in space, which is purportedly why its images are superior to earth-based astrophotos. And, could the HST take quality pics of the earth? Or, are there issues with our atmosphere (not just clouds) that degrade images? Not to mention issues with ‘steering’ objects in (the vacuum of) space!
Cameras in the air? Yes. Cameras in space? Not so sure. But yes, it is invasive, no matter how they get the photos. So is recording everything we say in the vicinity of our phones (and probably computers, and newer cars). Ask Angela Merkel…or any of the other ‘friends’ we spied (spy) on.
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My you have some excellent suggestions! Not sexy enough for NASA though. 😉
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