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.
How about something simple. It was no longer was politically fashionable for the right and particularly the left to support manned space travel. Remember Ralph Abernathy’s Poor People’s Caravan to Kennedy Space Center during the last Apollo Moon mission. It got more coverage then the Apollo mission - Apollo 17. I remember that ! Then add in “environmental issues” & spend money on earth was the hue & cry. What money NASA had went into the very poorly designed flying bomb I mean shuttle. Soon the public was herded into national navel gazing.
Garble !
“.. It was no longer was politically fashionable ..” should read “.. It was no longer politically fashionable .. “
How about something simple. It was no longer was politically fashionable for the right and particularly the left to support manned space travel
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How about a nice cover story - directly from the MSN to you. Have you heard the one about the 2020 election?
Herding people into navel gazing is correct - politicians cannot have people running around 10s of thousands or millions of miles away they cannot control; that would be actual freedom, you know, the antithesis of the Deep State.
I watched one of the moon landings in a small Mexican village accessible only by horseback with the entire village. You should have seen their faces - they had Hope for the first time in their lives. Coverage of all the landings was world-wide, not just in the States. I watched the first televised Russian rocket launch in Turkey; everyone in Sinope Provence had seen the US Apollo launches.
Unfortunately, not the last...
With a goal of the first transgender in translunar orbit.
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