A few years ago I talked with a NASA executive who had gone to Russia on business. They went to one of the Russian space bases that was co-located with an Air Force base.
Said he was out at lunch one day and saw a row of fighters several hundred yards away. He was able to walk right up to then, on the other side of a chain-link fence.
Mig-29s. Birds nesting in uncovered intakes, tires flat. Said the whole military side of the base looked like that.
At one time there were pictures on the net of some of the forgotten and disused launch sites at Cape Canaveral.....
Breathtaking??? Only to the Communist News Network.
It is interesting to see the Soviet Union copied of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
Although to be frank, the U.S. Space Shuttle was a copy of 1930s Nazi Germany Space proposed space program. The Space Shuttle is a very old design.
Former Nazi Scientist like Von Braun helped make our rocket program a reality.
Most of NASA (80% more or less) is a secret to the public. The Shuttle program was primarily there to win people over and give the public something that we can all love. Yes it had usefulness, but it’s primary a show piece.
I think NASA is great, and know they are well worth thetax payer money IMO.
Think of it this way. If mankind was thinking of the Space shuttle in the 1930s that was not released in the public until 50 years later. Imagine what they have today....
Here is another way to look at it. We are still told the SR71 is the fastest/or one of the fastest planes around. That plane was secretly flying around in the 1950s. Thinking about other technologies that have come to the public since the 1950s. So you can only imagine what they have now.
Trust me they do not show us the good stuff.
So for all you UFO freaks..... That’s not UFOs. That’s secret U.S. technology okay? It’s also why some of our politicians are so confident.
I wonder how that happened / S
They are thieves and attempt to seek approbation by calling themselves “urban explorers”.
I know such vermin have stolen everything I saved for 20 years in order to have someplace to live in my later years.
I am irked by the lack of respect for private property, when somebody claims they are an ‘urban explorer’ who has found a “time capsule” on/in the private property of somebody else.
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All I see around here lately is raggin on Russia.
Analog space shuttles. How quaint.
Nasa opened the astronaut program to foreigners, they felt bad for the ones that washed out, so they let them keep all of the training materials which were very detailed!
These were obtained by Cuban intelligence and sold to the soviets who then used them to design their copy. The soviets were amazed at our shuttle technology. I met the Cuban defector who was responsible for obtaining the plans at a conference.