Posted on 12/21/2020 11:48:34 AM PST by Red Badger
Although NASA was able to succeed in ending the Space Race with the USSR in 1969 with the Apollo 11 mission, today’s goals of setting up a base on the Moon became one of its earlier aspirations. As it turns out, Washington had plans to build a Moon base much earlier.
NASA today is working towards bringing back the next humans and the first woman on the Moon next year through its Artemis program. One of the agency’s goals is also to establish a lunar base by the end of the decade. However, it was recently revealed that Washington already had plans for a lunar base back in the late 1950s, 10 years before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would land on the Moon.
In 1959, in what would seemingly be the height of the Space Race, the US Army brought forth a top-secret plan called Project Horizon. This followed the Soviet’s launch of the Sputnik satellite back in 1957. Project Horizon’s proposal had an opening line that said that there is a need to set up a manned military base on the Moon. The proposal also stressed that establishing a lunar military base was needed as soon as possible for the purposes of national security.
“To be second to the Soviet Union in establishing an outpost on the Moon would be disastrous to our nation’s prestige and in turn our democratic philosophy. Once established, the lunar base will be operated under the control of a unified space command,” according to the proposal. “The space around the Earth and Moon would be considered a military theater.”
Recently, NASA discovered that the galaxy cluster of Abell 2261 does not have a supermassive black hole at its center. The black hole in question is widely believed to have a mass between three and 100 billion times the mass of the Sun. In a study that spanned five years with the use of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA astronomers found that the massive black hole is nowhere to be found. This could pose serious consequences to life on Earth.
Nice little throwaway line at the end of the piece with no further comment whatsoever. By the way, that Abell 2261 is something like 3 billion light years away, so I suspect those "consequences" aren't exactly imminent.
Every action has an equal but opposite reaction.
I would think some thing would be more difficult.
from the documentary I watched the Nazis had a moon base long before that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_IndUbcxc
You’re not alone with those thoughts.
What a great disappointment.
LBJ and his accursed Great Society strapped us giving free stuff to the gibsmedats for eternity.
Instead of spending that money on moon bases, we used it to pay people to vote Democrat.
NASA got rid of the Nazis, and the space program quickly spiraled.
The things America could have done if they hadn’t killed JFK and brought in President Johnson who got us into the Vietnam War and the ‘Civil Rights Welfare to Enslave Blacks Act’.
Ping.
“Good luck with that under a Biden Administration.”
The Biden’s will have the NASA budget looted and the money safely ensconced in their secret Cayman bank accounts. That’s the way they roll. James Biden will be a contractor for some particular piece of expensive vapor-ware.
UFO’s SHADO had a moonbase in the 80s.
I catch an episode every now and then on Pluto / Roku.
Loved it as a kid. 1999 has not aged well. I still love the Eagle ships.
The last DragonCon I attended way back when Martin Landau was there. He drew a huge room of people. I missed the MI stuff from the previous day. He talked about 1999 at great length. I think he was a tad overwhelmed at the number of people who came.
I got an autograph from him and we talked for a few. Great to have met him. He might have been up in years but he had an iron grip handshake.
He really wasn't interested in space, but he saw this as a way to boost his credibility with the anti-Communists. He wouldn't need it after '64, and, if he hadn't spiked it by '67, would have easily killed it after the Apollo 1 fire.
But since he died, the program was completed to fulfill his legacy.
Really? it was a movie.
Nixon happened. His watch canceled the remaining Apollo launches and NASA was left without any immediate goals.
“Really? it was a movie.”
I’ll tell you this, no one from ‘68 would have been able to imagine that nearly a half century (and perhaps much longer) would pass with no human presence on the moon.
I was around when they killed the original Project Orion in 1964 - Project motto: Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970. Interplanetary model would have been 10,000 tons, crew 150. 3 days to Mars. Cost same or less than Apollo
Interstellar model would have been 40 million tons, 1.5 years to Alpha Centauri.
Killed by Government inter-agency infighting, NASA Apollo conflict, perceived treaty obligations, lack of political leadership. “...the first time in modern history that a major expansion of human technology has been suppressed for political reasons.” - Freeman Dyson.
I’ll tell you this, no one from ‘68 would have been able to imagine that nearly a half century (and perhaps much longer) would pass with no human presence on the moon.
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There was a reason. Too much unexplainable stuff on the moon - they were spooked. The Navy’s 1994 Clementine Mission mapped the entire surface of the moon and the Hi-Res images remained classified or inaccessible for decades. Then the satellite disappeared, then decades later reappeared still broadcasting. Too much unexplainable stuff as I said.
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