Showing posts with label Space Shuttle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space Shuttle. Show all posts

Thursday, December 11, 2025

The MMU Story Marches On

 


"The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” 

William Shakespeare, Hamlet 


I’ve been fascinated with the famous untethered space walk by astronaut Bruce McCandless in 1984 for several years now. I’ve written several articles on it and created one video.  I am having changing thoughts on this event and will share them below.  It’s an event well known and accepted in the history of space exploration and lifted to legendary status.  Forty years on and it still appears in video’s online, science articles and even McCandless’s son jumped in the fray to write a biography of his father’s life and importantly, the adventure in tether-less space walking.  I am  intrigued at how an event like this is so well documented, which at the same time, is contradicted by NASA’s own official documents. Which means, despite the incredible photos created of the space walk as it was supposedly taking place it couldn’t have happened.  At least not the way we were told.


Full article at Substack:


https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/the-mmu-story-marches-on

Friday, June 14, 2024

Manned Maneuvering Unit Revisited

 


The 40th year anniversary in 2024.



New issues discovered.  Posted at Substack.


"NASA gets away with a lot.  Mainly due to a complaint, unquestioning science and technology media.  If America’s premier space agency chooses to deceive the public they can. And do.  I can tell from my own research experience that NASA documents often contradict their press releases and in turn, contradict the articles by science based journalists.  It is as if these journalists are not reading the source documents.  Actually, their articles often resemble PR releases for NASA."



More here:


 https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/manned-maneuvering-unit-revisited



Saturday, March 30, 2024

How NASA Faked The MMU



Although I have already written an article on NASA’s jet pack (LINK), I decided to do a video presentation on it since it is one of NASA’s biggest PR stunts.

Video

https://youtu.be/zUAliboA5rk


Thursday, August 31, 2023

Manned Maneuvering Unit - MMU

 

NASA’s public relations stunt.

The purpose of the MMU was to allow astronauts to float free of the space shuttle without being restricted by a tether.  As things later turned out, they went back to the tether and ended up wasting millions of dollars on development and deployment.  But why?  Mostly likely due to issues explained below.  Issues of which, NASA has never been forthcoming on.

Full article here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/manned-maneuvering-unit?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web



Friday, August 21, 2020

Awkward Document For NASA Regarding GCR

 

Screen shot from Space Radiation and Risks to Human Health.


When browsing through NASA’s documents every so often one finds statements that do not fit the official account.  And they don’t seem to mind the contractions.   


The document “Space Radiation and Risks to Human Health” by Janice L. Huff, Ph.D., is a case in point.  She is the  Deputy Element Scientist at the NASA Space Radiation Program and this report can be found on NASA’s technical report server. 



What caught my eye was the obvious contradiction regarding the hazards of galactic cosmic rays (GCR) and no data to evaluate human health hazards.  Ironically, one of the highlighted bullet points (see above) states there is no shielding that can block GCR.  So if the Apollo astronauts went to the moon, they would have been barraged with the cosmic rays since their capsule’s shielding would not have blocked the rays.  Should they not have the human data? 


GCR also fragments into secondary high energy particles that can as the report states, “damage biomolecules, cells and tissues.”  An illustration shows the rays passing thru a human head.


Interesting how the NASA experts know about cell and tissue damage when they say they have no human data on the health hazards to reply upon.  How do they know this?  Another bullet point is professing the need for more animal experimentation.  Which apparently they haven’t done enough of, if any.


As I wrote in my article “NASA Document Implies No Go To The Moon,” NASA has no misgiving in mocking their own narrative.  In that document from their report server, a chart indicates that the sum total of Apollo radiation exposure for all missions was the same as the Space Shuttle which never left low earth orbit.  The astronaut’s dosimeter readings were the same as being in low earth orbit as well.  The highest exposure goes to the ISS.  Yet if they actually did the moon landings they are being bathed in galactic cosmic rays for the duration of the trip to the moon, on the surface during the exploration phase, and back home again.  The consequences should have been hazardous to the health and cognitive function of the astronauts and eventually, deadly. 


Besides GCR the astronauts would have been exposed to a plethora of radiation both in sis lunar space and on the moon’s surface.  Alpha, Beta, Gamma radiation as well as microwave, x-rays, etc.  These same energies would affect astronauts on the moon as well and in another odd twist, there was no adequate shielding in the suit to block all of these high energy particles.  The weak point being the helmet which was made entirely out of plastic and offered no shielding from the radiation nor any insolation from the extreme heat and cold.  


Did NASA use black budget technology in the shielding?  Unknown.  If not, then we are looking at a con job.


Sources

Space Radiation and Risks to Human Health 

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20140005866


NASA Document Implies No Go To The Moon

http://outwardtrends.blogspot.com/2018/09/nasa-document-implies-no-go-to-moon.html

Saturday, December 28, 2019

2019 Year End Review of NASA Research

President Nixon talking to the astronauts on the moon using a rotary dial phone.



NASA research highlights.



It’s been a great year to research the Apollo moon missions and after all I have learned, I do want to believe men went to the moon and safely returned.  However, due to various discoveries if NASA documents that are freely available to the public, it is getting doubtful the moon landings actually occurred. 

The Right Stuff Never Stumbles
This is probably the clincher for the moon missions not being what we were told.  I had thought I found “smoking guns” in the past but this one is impossible to explain except via deception.  

The space tourists.  After studying their accounts, I discovered that upon landing and after spending more than 10 days in space none of them could walk.  They had to helped out the capsule, put in chairs and carted off the field to a medical tent where nurses helped them get out of the spacesuits. Digging deeper into the Russian cosmonauts and their space experiences, the same is true for them.  Why?  Because the human body is designed for gravity.  Muscles need resistance.  In zero gravity there is none and muscles loose their tone.  The body’s muscles, bone and blood degrades.  After being in space, even as little as 5 days, astronauts feel as if they are too heavy to move.  Their legs feel like tree trunks.  In 24 hours after landing everything returns to normal, though some astronauts do have lingering issues and require therapy.  

What is striking is the Gemini and Apollo astronauts.  In photographs and film they have no problem walking around on the carrier deck after being picked up at sea.  In the longest mission of 1965, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman spent 2 weeks aboard Gemini 7 in orbit.  Images show them happily walking about the deck after splashdown.  All of the Apollo astronauts after their time in space also display no problem walking moments after reentry.  

What we see in these images and films of the astronauts is something that is physically impossible.  

This is a major indicator that these astronauts were not in space as long as they said they were.  How can this be resolved?  Unless NASA developed artificial gravity technology for these missions and it secret until now, which is doubtful, we are witnessing fakery.

NASA Document Implies No Go To Moon
Probably my biggest find of the year was a NASA document found on their technical report server, analyzing the history of radiation exposure to American astronauts from the early days of Mercury to the current era of the International Space Station (ISS).

Included in the report is a chart.  It shows the radiation exposure from Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle and finally, the ISS.  Incredibly, Apollo, the only manned mission that went the farthest out, is not at the top of the chart.  The International Space Station is!  Apollo is nestled in the middle right by the Space Shuttle.  The Shuttle never left low earth orbit (LEO).  So the authors of the report are suggesting that the total radiation exposure for all Apollo missions was the same as being in LEO.  But this can’t be possible if Apollo went to the moon and back because they left the earth’s protective magnetosphere.  Not to mention the hazards of flying thru the Van Allen belts and the moon itself, which is a highly radiative place.  They must have the highest exposure if they went to the moon.  Yet they place the ISS at the top of the chart for exposure.

So if Apollo’s exposure to high levels of radiation in deep space is equivalent to LEO, they ever had shielding that is a made of classified materials, secret to this day, or they didn’t complete the mission.

Clavious Is A Spook Site
Actually, I should have defined Clavious as a propaganda site.  It can still be on the Spook side with articles written by no-names, no copyrights and no sources.  This neatly laid out debunking site directed at the NASA moon hoax crowd uses the same techniques found in good disinformation projects.  They do what the players at Snopes do—only provide the right amount of information to prove a point and ignore any issues or evidence that contradict.  Like Snopes, it all reads good and the explanations seem plausible till you dig a bit deeper.  With no sources to expand upon, it is as if they have no need to prove anything.  Take our word for it and move along!

A good example of this is Clavious’s explanation regarding how astronauts could survive getting thru the Van Allen radiation belts.  They use the common and seemingly sensible theory of using a 30° trajectory that would send the spacecraft thru the outer fringes of the belts, lessening the radiation impact on the astronauts.  Sounds feasible till you start looking around for NASA documents to prove this.  If they used a 30° trajectory, which launch would that be?  All of them?  It is never stated.  What is the source document for this?  Not stated.  

I dug around and found a document for the launch trajectory for Apollo 14.  It stated an apogee of 90°.  I don’t know if this is similar for all of the launches.  But what this report does prove is they are not skirting around the edges of radiation belts, but instead flying straight thru them.

Additionally, Frank Borman stated as much in his book, Countdown, that Apollo 8 traveled straight thru the belts and the crew only got a radiation dose equivalent to a chest x-ray.  No fancy flying there!  And no harm done from the alleged radiation danger which Borman wrote off as much to do about nothing.

Did the damaged Apollo 13 and crew limp home thru the edges of the Van Allen belts?  No.  They did a slingshot trajectory and headed straight home through the belts.  They didn’t have the fuel to do anything more except get home alive.

Ultimately, Clavious comes off as well organized and reasonable with seemingly excellent rebuttals to Moon Hoaxers.  That is, till one explores the subject in more detail.  But if NASA really succeeded in sending a man to the moon, why not rebuff the critics with real data and not unsourced made-up commentary?

The Mystery of Apollo 13
And a mystery it is.  One of the mysteries was why did James Lovell, commander of the mission write in his book that the Command Service Module (CSM) weighed 64,000 pounds in zero gravity?  And that the weight was throwing off the “center of gravity” messing up the guidance system? The only reviewer of this book on Amazon to point this nonsense out is me.  Do people not think anymore?  

To compound the Lovell’s weird narrative regarding this disaster that nearly killed him and two other men (provided this event actually took place) is NASA’s technical report on the debacle.  It lists 13 times fuel or water weighing in quantities of pounds.  For example, before they shut down the power in the CSM, they withdrew 14 pounds of water and moved it over the LEM for storage.  How did they weigh that in zero G?  I’d like to see that scale.  Oh, never mind!  

Even the electronic schematics are screwy.  One diagram lists an output with no input.  You have to have the input or else there will be no output!  I thought these guys are billed as engineering geniuses?  But they can’t properly draw up a wiring diagram?  

From Apollo 13 is birthed the NASA “can do” agency myth.  The stuff of legend.  Even more legendary is how the engineers sussed out what went wrong without being able to examine or test the damaged hardware.  Something that would normally take months.  Rocket scientists from MIT or Wizards from Hogwarts School of Wizardry?

It should be noted that when our heroes triumphantly appeared on deck of the carrier, once again, they did not have to crawl.  No problem walking at all. 

Magic Handles And Magic Glass
Once again NASA makes the impossible, possible!  In this case, making components that are resistant to heat damage.   Both the aluminum handles on the CSM capsule and the glass in the windows far exceed their heat tolerance upon reentry.  The handles melting point is at 1,180 degrees Fahrenheit and the glass begins melting at 3,110 degrees Fahrenheit.  Reentry temperatures rise as high as 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit.  Yet the handles never melt and no damage ever occurs on the glass windows in all of the Apollo flights.  In some pictures the handles look in extraordinary shape considering the high temperatures they were exposed to.  

Something like this is a common pattern when investigating NASA.  Their achievements border on the mythological.  Yet there they are, claiming to have done some nearly miraculous deed.  Such as seen in the top image of President Nixon talking to the astronauts on the moon with a rotary dial phone.  The longest distance call ever!  What is the area code again?  Try to get a mobile phone connection anywhere that is that good today!  


Sources and Links

Articles






Other Links
Apollo 14 flight Trajectory 

Clavious and the Van Allen belts