Showing posts with label apollo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apollo. Show all posts

Friday, February 6, 2026

Artemis II - The Radiation Challenge


 



NASA has been doing this for some time.  Covering the Artemis II return to the moon program as if it is doing something new, as if Apollo never happened.  Here is a NASA director, Lisa Carnell saying that for the first time they will be getting data on the effects of deep space radiation on humans. 


Read more at my Substack.


https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/artemis-ii



Saturday, November 2, 2024

Book Review: NASA Lies by Lawrence Rowe


New post at Substack.


A NASA photographic analysis.


NASA LIES is a book seeking to show fraud in the Apollo moon landings by comparison of the Hasselblad images taken from space and on the surface of the moon mixed with various explanations regarding rocket science and its effects.  In this review I’ll concentrate on the photographs primarily. 

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/book-review-nasa-lies-by-lawrence




A NASA photographic analysis.

Saturday, April 13, 2024

The LEM



At Deep Thoughts Radio an excellent breakdown of the inherent problems of making the Lunar Landing Module actually work.


https://deepthoughtsradio.com/dtr-s6-bonus-moon-hoax-lunar-lander/

Thursday, May 11, 2023

What Is Wrong With This Picture?


Apollo photo irregularities remain.


Quite a bit of debate has surrounded the numerous photo collections of the Apollo moon missions.  From the parallel shadow angles to John Young’s jump salute showing dust from the rear video angle but no dust in front still photo angle.  Much has been revealed in professional photographer Jack White’s Apollo photo study (link below) and it is highly recommended to check out his work. 


One thing that has caught my attention outside of Jack’s comprehensive examination, was the images shot of the earth from the moon’s surface.  If there is any fakery being done, it is quite evident in the earth photos since they are in the wrong position from the moon’s angle of view.   


What is wrong with the picture above? This earth shot was from the Apollo 17 mission.  They landed 20 degrees from the moon’s equator.  The earth’s angle is about 45 degrees from the horizon.  However, that is the wrong location.  Since there is no earth rise or earth set, as it lies in a fixed position.  It should have been directly overhead.  A difficult shot to make with a chest mounted camera with no viewfinder.  The Hasselblad camera would have to be removed from its chest mount and pointed vertically with the hope it appeared in-frame for the shot.

 

But there are other problems too.  Such as the size of the earth.  It appears smaller in size than when looking at the moon from earth.  The earth is 3.7 times larger and the distance is the same.  It should be much larger.  In fact, it’s actually smaller in size than what one would observe of the moon from earth!    


In the other picture shot during the Apollo 17 mission which features the flag, the earth is at an even higher angle and even smaller than the other image.  But as stated above, the earth is stationary in the moon's sky.





So the earth is in the wrong position in both images and too small in size as seen from the moon’s surface.  Astronomers have to know this is incorrect.  Have any of them come forward?  No.  They know what abuse will be heaped on them if they point this out.  Nobody wants to go through their professional life as a “toil foil hat” wearer.  





And besides that, how come the Apollo era earth photos never show the aurora borealis?  It’s been active every day since the earth began.  But we never see any images of it from space till the Space Shuttle program and the International Space Station (ISS) commenced.  Why?  What were they really doing up there?





Even this picture of the crescent earth has issues. Where are the city lights? Once again, no northern lights either.


As astronaut Dr. Brian O’Leary said at a UFO conference in 1999, “If some of the film was spoiled, it’s remotely possible they [NASA] may have shot some scenes in a studio environment to avoid embarrassment.”


An amazing admission!  According to Dr. O’Leary, the possibility exists that NASA would fake images if the film were ruined.  And they may have done just that in the Apollo 17 example provided here.  That was always a clear risk of film damage since there was no radiation shielding on the camera body and besides radiation issues, the effects of being in a vacuum can damage film as well.  In fact, if they really were on the moon, I fail to see how they did not damage all the film reels shot in such a toxic environment. 


In conclusion, they either made it to the moon and the film was damaged and to be reproduced in a studio or else it was all a cold war propaganda stunt.



Also published at my Substack: https://georgebailey.substack.com/p/what-is-wrong-with-this-picture?sd=pf


Sources


Jack White's Apollo Studies

https://www.aulis.com/jackstudies_0.htm


Dr Brian O’Leary 

https://www.aulis.com/nasa2.htm


Project Apollo Archive

https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums


Monday, April 24, 2023

Which Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg?

One of the Apollo flight simulators.

 

Or rather, which came first, the flight or the flight simulator?

“A flight simulator helps in artificially recreating the aircraft flight environment for pilot training, design or other purposes.The main purpose of a flight simulator is to help the pilot to achieve, test and maintain proficiency in handling airplane operation without involving any risk to property or lives, and at a much lower cost than training in the air. A simple flight simulator system consists of multiple displays, control devices, an audio system for communications and a computer system to process control inputs and record flight data.”


Techopedia


“In the late 1960s our simulation technology had progressed to the point where it became virtually impossible to separate the training from the actual missions.”


Gene Krantz, Failure Is Not An Option, p. 234



As my grandmother used to ask me as a boy, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”  I pondered the question and never had an answer.  It is a paradox.  You cannot have one without the other.  But what is the starting point?  Take your pick—God's created it or evolutionary biology did. 


The same applies to NASA’s simulator technology that was developed for the moon missions.  As Gene Krantz noted above, the simulators hosted simulations that were as real as the real thing.  So how do you develop a flight simulator that is authentic, to land a manned spacecraft on the moon, when this has never been done before?  The engineers did benefit from data gathered from the Surveyor program’s robotic probes, and data acquired from observation and experiments.  But by 1965, 3 landers out of 9 succeeded in missions to the moon. Where did this database of knowledge, coupled with actual experience come from? How did they increase the simulator accuracy to resemble an actual landing without doing the landing first?


Generally, engineering requires the building of prototypes with test flights in real world conditions, or in this case, real moon conditions.  In commercial or military aviation development, the aircraft and the simulation are both built in tandem.  The simulator will be the training platform for pilots and the test pilot’s flights of the prototype will be gathering data to input into the simulator.  Both systems rise together.  


Simulator Construction Began Early On


Apollo command service module (CSM) simulator construction began in the early 1960’s by contractor North American.  Construction was to be completed early 1964.  In 1963 they were awarded the contract to begin construction on the Lunar landing module (LM) simulator.  This was long before the Apollo spacecraft had been launched or tested in real space and real moon conditions.  It should also be acknowledged that at this time, between 1960-1963, only 5 unmanned spacecraft had been sent to the moon and none were successful.    


Around this time, Grumman signed the contract to build the Apollo spacecraft in November of 1962.  Construction started in January of 1963. There would be a need for networking between these two technologies—one from the simulator side and the other from the hardware side.  From 1961 to 1967 the Mercury and Gemini programs were ongoing.  It gave the appearance of gradual steps learning how to travel successfully to the moon.  But apparently, the technology was already there to do so.  But how?  It seems in retrospect that the Mercury and Gemini programs were meant to keep the public engaged with the moon landing project.  Some of their missions could be gleamed 


Where then, is the database of knowledge coming from? Not only for the flight simulations but for the spacecraft also.   A secret space program?  These machines are built with a purpose in mind so the engineers would need a full understanding of the technology required and conditions in deep space such as astrophysics, temperatures, radiation, navigation, launch weight, fuel consumption, etc.—besides what it is like to fly a spacecraft from microgravity to 1/6 gravity in a vacuum for a successful moon landing.


Apollo Simulation Platforms


Apollo Experience Report: Simulation Of Manned Space Flight For Crew Training


As can be seen in this 1973 NASA report the simulators used, there were a total of 11.  All had banks of computers to control every aspect of a mission.  Other simulators included aspects such as simulated 1/6 gravity, docking simulation, centrifuge for high G forces, etc.  The report states Apollo astronauts spent as much as 80% of their training time in these simulators.  And for spacecraft that, under the official NASA narrative, had never been flown in the conditions or places where they were intended for.


How did they know this was going to be successful? 


In Neil Armstrong’s authorized biography, The First Man, Armstrong was instrumental in developing the simulators.  As stated in the book, Armstrong’s method was to “mechanize the equations of motion.” Where are the equations coming from since nobody had flown the LM on the moon?  The reader is never told.  Therein lies the issue—too much data coming from too few sources and never properly explained. 


Armstrong reportedly crashed landing attempts over 3,000 times in the LM simulator.  If that simulator is not as accurate as a real flight experience, then Armstrong would be simulating crashing without fully knowing the correct flight characteristics and data to prevent a crash in a live moon landing.  But the LM had never landed on the moon.  So how did they get the actual flight and landing experience data from? These NASA rocket guys come off as daredevils!  They are not adhering to standard procedures of safety or other basic engineering standards. You always test the prototypes first.  Even smart people don’t know it all.  


It is doubtful they could have done this from running simulations from what is known, because not all was known at the time.


Concluding


My conclusion to the mysteries presented here, is that the exploration of the moon had already been done.  By chiefly, the Department of Defense.  I judge that by circumstantial evidence of NASA and their contractors having a greater knowledge of technological requirements and space flight characteristics than they should have had at the time since much of the hardware was untested.  And keep in mind, all of the astronauts from Mercury, Gemini to Apollo were employed by the DOD.  All were military men, all officer class.  


As Neal Armstrong once said, “My celebrity is unwarranted.”  This might be more than a humble man’s words.  Maybe Armstrong was not the first man on the moon.  Maybe there were other men, names concealed to this day, buried deep in the Deep State.



Endnotes


Also posted at my Substack page.

https://georgebailey.substack.com/p/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the?sd=pf


Sources


Apollo simulator construction timeline.


http://www.astronautix.com/c/csmsimulator.html



Apollo Experience Report: Simulation Of Manned Space Flight For Crew Training


https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search?q=Apollo%20flight%20simulators



What Does Flight Simulator Mean?


https://www.techopedia.com/definition/15229/flight-simulator

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

Monday, August 3, 2020

The Right Stuff Is Right This Time

Dragon Astronaut exiting capsule on August 2, 2020


It was a great day in manned space flight to see astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley slash down in the Gulf of Mexico on the afternoon of August 2.  The first time in 45 years that such an event had occurred.  The astronauts had launched from the cape on May 30 and had spent 63 days on the International Space Station.

In my article The Right Stuff Never Stumbles, I document how the Russian cosmonauts and space tourists could not remove themselves from the capsule upon landing or walking. They had to carted off the field due to the effects of being in zero (micro) gravity.  Meanwhile, the Gemini and Apollo astronauts had no issues with this at all, regarding any of their flights and landings.  One of the longest missions, Gemini 7 spent 14 days in space with astronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman.  They could extract themselves from their capsules and freely walk about minutes after landing.  

So I watched with great interest to see if the Behnken and Hurley would leave the capsule on their own or be helped out.  The rescue personnel helped both of the astronauts out of the dragon and sent them off on stretchers.  I was delighted to see this.  It proves the Dragon trip to the ISS actually happened.  In the era of Deep Fakes it is nice to see some reality for a change.  

But the success of the SpaceX/NASA Dragon does point to the phoniness of the of the NASA missions of the 1960’s and 70’s.  As stated in the Right Stuff article, the space tourists and Russian Cosmonauts could not walk upon landing due to the physical effects on the body in a weightless environment.  Micro gravity, meaning no gravity, is very harmful to the human body and gives one a since of being tremendously heavy upon return.  This is never experienced by any astronaut from the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.  You can witness them getting out of the capsule on their own with no help and then freely walking around afterward. 

So Sunday’s splashdown points to more evidence of NASA Cold War myth making.


The Right Stuff Never Stumbles

https://outwardtrends.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-right-stuff-never-stumbles.html

Anousheh Ansari’s Blog - Engineer and space tourist describes the effects of after space recovery.

http://spaceblog.xprize.org/2006/10/05/second-birth/

Saturday, August 1, 2020

Lunar Geology and Ionizing Radiation


Over at Aulis, a report on lunar radiation has been posted, Lunar Geology and Ionizing Radiationby Bulcsu Siklós, PhD.  This report serves as a devastating rebuttal to the official NASA narrative of landing men on the moon.  Namely, that the radiation on the moon’s surface is too deadly and the Apollo crews did not have sufficient shielding to survive in the lunar environment. 

LINK for the Dr. Siklós report.

Links to my articles on this subject:

NASA Document Implies No Go To The Moon
Technical report showing Apollo Astronauts for all missions, only experienced the radiation exposure of low earth orbit.  


Book Review:  Spacesuit—Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchau.  A detailed account of spacesuit development that totally ignores radiation shielding in the suit.  Because there is none.


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