> You mean a chunk of rock from the Arizona desert that they used on the
> sound stage where they faked the entire space program, right? :-P
Yes...
...and no.
I'm a firm believer that they staged the entire Apollo 11 flight. The
mission was too important to "fail". Was the launch real? Absolutely.
Was the moon landing itself real? Yup. Was the return real? Yup. But I
am a believer that the entire flight was "pre-recorded" and on a
synchronized playback should the need to cover up a failure be needed.
In the control room for the television feed, the director had the live
feed and the precorded feed on his source monitors with the switch set
to the live feed. They likely had several scenarios recorded which
would account for a failure, so we would manage to land the guys on
the moon and then they end up dying on reentry.
The geo-political landscape was too vital to have Apollo 11 fail. We
were going to succeed even if we didn't. All it took was for the
rocket to clear the horizon and we won. Sacrificing three guys for
geo-political and military success was a no-brainer. We would have had
them land on the moon (via the pre-recorded mission) and then killed
them off on the reentry to cover up whatever the real failure was.
What about Apollo 13? Didn't matter. In fact, it didn't matter that we
even had Apollo 12. The race was for ONE mission, not multiple. The
others were bonus because we had the extra parts already built. We
would have just kept killing crews until we got a rocket past the
horizon. Remember, this was the Vietnam War era where human life was
not valued.
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Ken Norton
ken@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.zone-10.com
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