I think Elvis lives and is controlling everything.
On 17 Apr 2014, at 23:24, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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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