Bad publicity aborts NASA mission to pen moon-defense book

Bad publicity aborts NASA mission to pen moon-defense book

Knight Ridder Newspapers Posted on Thu, Nov. 07, 2002

WASHINGTON - The nation's space agency sent men to the moon 33 years ago, but its plan to sponsor a mini-book documenting that those Apollo landings really happened blew up on liftoff. Its mission was aborted this week by bad publicity.

After decades of mostly ignoring those who were skeptical about the moon landings, NASA hired Houston author and aerospace engineer Jim Oberg this fall to write a 10-chapter 'monograph' for $15,000. His mission was to deliver a point-by-point rebuttal of conspiracy theorists who say the six Apollo moon landings were hoaxes.

When Knight Ridder reported the book deal, the resulting ridicule led NASA to kill the plan Wednesday, agency spokesman Bob Jacobs said. NASA will pay Oberg $5,000 for work he had already done.

Oberg, who has received many calls and letters from teachers looking for a way to counter moon-landing skeptics, said he would still write the book, but with different funding.

Ridicule? What goddamned ridicule was that?????

I am sure it will be a good book, but I have to admit, I don't think NASA should be funding a project to debunk a bunch of kooks. But I hope you write it with other funding.

NASA must be populated by a bunch of wussies these days if a little bad publicity can stop a lousy pamphlet. Where are the MEN who sent this country to the moon, the MEN who took risks to send 12 men on a trip that we may never duplicate, the MEN who dared?

Well, they sent more than 12... only 12 got to run the final lap so to speak.

T H E P L O T T H I C K E N S...... Here it is..... just by (wink) coincidence the Weekly World News runs a moon hoax article the same week NASA chickens out on their ariticle! This proves The Illuminati really does have a sense of humor!

NASA FAKED APOLLO MOON LANDINGS?

RACHEL, Nevada Millions of gullible people had the wool pulled over their eyes when they sprawled in front of the tube more than 30 years ago and watched what they believed was the first man to walk on the moon. But it was all part of a gigantic hoax by NASA and President Richard M. Nixon to make Americans believe the United States had soundly beaten the Soviet Union in the race to the moon and outer space, according to British authors David Percy and Mary Bennett in Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle Blowers, (Adventures Unlimited Press, London.) Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong never walked the lunar surface, nor did any subsequent Apollo flight land a man on the moon, according to the meticulously documented study. It was all part of a secret effort by the U. S. and the Soviet Union to cover up the real purpose of space exploration to contact alien civilizations, the authors wrote. Information provided by American rocket scientist Bill Kaysing, helped Percy and Bennett arrive at their shocking conclusion that the landing wasnt directed by NASA engineers in Houston, but by professional filmmakers in Hollywood and at the governments mysterious and closely guarded top secret military base, Area 51, in the Nevada desert. Kaysing, who was in his early 70s when he collaborated with the British writers, was employed at Californias Propulsion Field Laboratory in the late 1950s and worked on the prototype for Armstrongs Eagle landing craft. NASA reportedly learned from CIA spies in 1958 that Soviet scientists had determined moon walkers would need thick lead suits to avoid fatal doses of radiation. So plans for a real landing were called off, the authors contend. And Armstrong, along with fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, were sent to an area near Quebec to film some phony moon walking shots, then moved to an internal set at Area 51 for greater security. Id love to believe that our astronauts were the first men to walk on the lunar surface, another investigator told a radio show host after reading the book and conducting his own research. But it looks like the first real moon walker was Michael Jackson.

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NASA produces books and other PR material all the time. So does every other arm of the government.

Just caught this on the early morning BBC News site...always on the ball eh?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2410431.stm

They were thrown into a pit of half starved wolves by King Iella.... or maybe they all retired, or got canned by Goldin- anyway it's time to start carving Blood Eagles into some bureaucratic backs over the whole thing, and as soon as I can get this Odin-damned falcon off of my face, that's exactly what I intend to do!

I think it is within NASA's brief to produce the equivalent of this, but without directly addressing this.

If they had instead commissioned a history of Hoax claims demonstrating the fallacious reporting and reasoning that gave them breath then they would have their debunking volume, and it wouldn't make the kook end of the news.

SNIP SNIP SNIP ************************ Considering a lot of the other PR stuff I've seen come out of NASA and many other governmental Agencies, I had absolutely no problem with the $15,000