Yeah, I know, I know – a lot of you were expecting, and have been waiting somewhat patiently for, and have probably even been promised, a new installment of the Laurel Canyon series. And I will readily admit that I did say, with the launch of the last Apollo installment, that I was done with this topic for now. But how was I supposed to know that just four months after that launch, it would be announced, albeit so quietly that almost all of you probably missed it, that we will be boldly taking another stab at sending men to the Moon?!
So no, we have not quite resumed our journey through Laurel Canyon, but because I’m all about the giving, we’re going to take one more quick trip to the Moon! And on the way there, there is a very high probability that we will encounter some advertisements. Because, like I said, I’m all about the giving. And I thought to myself the other day, “what more can I give them?,” and the answer that I came up with was, “I know! I’ll randomly and rather awkwardly insert some cool ads!”
Anyway, as I noted in the last Apollo post, “whenever NASA types talk about going ‘back’ to the Moon,” they invariably seem to “unintentionally raise questions about the legitimacy of the Apollo missions.” And sure enough, the boys over at Lockheed Martin (one of NASA’s longtime partners-in-crime) certainly didn’t let me down in that regard with this latest proposal.
Before proceeding, I should probably first clarify here that the proposed missions are not so ambitious as to involve actually landing on the Moon. No, these proposed missions involve merely flying to the Moon’s far side and then sort of hanging out in Lunar orbit for a couple of weeks. In other words, all of the most technologically demanding aspects of the alleged Apollo missions – like actually landing on the Moon, surviving on the Moon, lifting off from the Moon, and docking while in Lunar orbit – have been eliminated.
Even these far less ambitious missions, of course, won’t actually happen – but let’s play along while Space.com’s “Space Insider Columnist,” Leonard David, fills us in on what we have to look forward to (“Mission Proposed to Send Astronauts to the Moon’s Far Side,” November 23, 2010):
“While NASA has officially given up its plans to send humans back to the surface of the moon anytime soon, a contractor is proposing a mission to send a crew to a stationary spot in orbit over the far side of Earth’s neighbor. Lockheed Martin has begun pitching an L2-Farside Mission using its Orion spacecraft under development … The Earth-moon L2 Lagrange point is where the combined gravity of the Earth and the moon allows a spacecraft to hover over one spot and be synchronized with the moon in its orbit around the Earth. From a halo orbit around that L2 point, a crew would control robots on the lunar surface. Teleoperated science tasks include snagging rock specimens for return to Earth from the moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin – one of the largest, deepest, and oldest craters in the solar system – as well as deploy a radio telescope array on the farside.”
Everybody got all of that? Sounds pretty easy, doesn’t it? After all, the bar has been set substantially lower than it was in the glorious 1960s, when we easily mastered such things as landing men on the Moon, walking on the Moon, driving dune buggies on the Moon, and playing golf on the Moon. Nevertheless, there are some potential problems – just as there are, as is usually the case, some aspects of these proposed missions that directly contradict the entrenched, though slightly insane, belief that we sent men to the Moon back in the days when telephones were heavy enough to be used as lethal weapons.
Let’s begin with one of the stated benefits of these proposed missions, as listed in a Lockheed Martin ‘white paper’ and laid out by Daniel Bates of the UK’s Daily Mail (“Astronauts to be Sent to the Far Side of the Moon for First Time in 40 Years in Pre-Mars Mission,” November 25, 2010): “Both [NASA and Lockheed Martin] would also have the chance to address the problem of a higher re-entry speed which is accumulated on trips further away from the Earth.”
There they go again, pretending as though we’ve never done this before! Already we have heard from NASA types about how we haven’t yet solved the radiation problem, and how we haven’t yet developed spacesuit materials capable of withstanding the temperature extremes on the Moon, and how we haven’t yet solved the problem of how to deal with all that Lunar dust … and now we find that we apparently also haven’t yet worked out how to deal with the fact that spacecraft returning from the Moon would have to survive much higher re-entry speeds than spacecraft returning from low-Earth orbit! And I’m guessing that we might also have a problem with controlling the all-important reentry angle.
At this point, I really am beginning to wonder if there is any of that classic 1960s space technology that hasn’t been lost? Perhaps NASA needs to hire a crack team of archeologists to dig through their warehouses.
Another problem arises from the proposed duration and timeline of the missions. According to Space.com, “Each flight would prove out the Orion capsule’s life support systems for one-month duration missions.” Later in the same article, we find that on each mission, our fearless astronauts “would orbit the L2 point for about two weeks.” It would appear then that Lockheed and NASA are allowing a full two weeks to travel to and from the Moon – which would be all well and good were it not for the obvious fact that it is roughly twice the time that it took for the mighty Apollo craft to allegedly get to the Moon and back!
The 1960s was, as some will surely recall, the era of ‘muscle cars,’ so perhaps it was the era of ‘muscle spaceships’ as well. But since we have now apparently sacrificed raw power in favor of fuel economy, I guess today’s spaceships just don’t burn rubber like the spacecraft of the wild and wooly ‘60s – though there is, I suppose, an alternative explanation: the last forty years of space research has taught us that it would actually take twice as long to get to the Moon as was believed back when we faked the Apollo flights.
According to Josh Hopkins of Lockheed Martin, in order to achieve the not-so-lofty goal of sending men out to orbit the Moon, the company’s Human Spaceflight Advanced Programs division has “come up with a sequence of missions that [they]’ve named ‘Stepping Stones,’ which begins with flights in low Earth orbit and incrementally builds.” Lockheed views the first Orion missions as “feasible by 2016 to 2018.”
Do I really need to belabor the point that, back in the days when mankind was transitioning from the use of stone tools, we didn’t need any ‘stepping stones’ to get to the Moon – the very first manned launch of an Apollo craft allegedly flew its crew all the way there and back without a hitch! And do I also need to once again point out that, despite setting our sights much lower, and despite having vastly improved technology to work with, and despite having an additional fifty years of spaceflight experience, it will still take just as long to get men near the Moon as it did in the 1960s to actually walk on the Moon?
Returning now to the alleged benefits of running these missions, we find that Lockheed’s ‘white paper’ also talks about being able to “measure astronauts’ radiation dose from cosmic rays and solar flares to verify that Orion provides sufficient protection, as it is designed to do. Currently the medical effects of deep space radiation are not well understood, so a one-month mission would improve our understanding without exposing astronauts to excessive risk.”
So despite the fact that some forty-three years have now passed since we first allegedly sent men into deep space, we still don’t really know anything about the effects of deep space radiation … but we are pretty sure, apparently, that a thirty-day dosage is a good, safe place to start! And just to be on the safe side, we could always pull Buzz and Neil out of retirement to pilot the first flight. They can’t have too many years left in them anyway.
In all seriousness, NASA initially considered for the Apollo missions, according to “To The Moon” (a Time-Life Book), “men doomed by fatal disease.” Also considered were “midget[s], to cut the payload weight.” They said it, not me. I would have used a more politically correct term. Imagine though, if NASA had followed through on that idea, what kind of records could have been set in the Midget Toss?
One final curious aspect of these latest proposed missions that we need to delve into was explained by Space.com: “The robotic lander and rover would be launched first on a slow but efficient trajectory to the moon, to ensure that the rover is on its way before risking the crew launch.”
Say what?! Are you kidding me? What kind of girly-men are these new breed of astronauts? Stepping stones? Supplemental launches before “risking the crew”? Can’t we just find some real men like John Glenn and Alan Shepard to pilot the Orion craft? And what is this nonsense about a “slow but efficient trajectory to the moon”? “Efficient” in what way? Last time I checked, the ‘debunkers’ were still claiming that getting to the Moon was pretty much a matter of just free-falling your way there. What could be more efficient than that?
Oh wait … I remember now. As I pointed out in the last Apollo post, getting to the Moon does not actually involve free-falling. It involves battling the Earth’s gravity by flying in ever-increasing ellipses. And burning lots and lots of fuel. And Lockheed’s oblique reference to a “slow but efficient trajectory” is, in fact, a confirmation of that. And so, by the way, is this artist’s conception of the proposed Orion missions, which shows the spacecraft outside of low-Earth orbit and yet clearly still burning its engines.
Following the launch of the lander and rover (both of which, it will be recalled, stored easily aboard the Apollo flights), “three astronauts would be launched in an Orion spacecraft. If NASA has built a heavy lift launch vehicle by then, it would be capable of launching the crew directly to the moon. If that mega-booster is a no-show, smaller rockets can be used instead, but a more complex arrangement would be required. First, Orion would be launched to low-Earth orbit on a rocket such as a Delta 4 Heavy. Then, a modified Centaur upper stage would launch on a separate rocket. Orion would dock to the Centaur stage in orbit, and the Centaur would boost Orion toward the moon.”
To briefly recap then, we now know that getting three men near the Moon in modern times is considerably more difficult than landing three men on the Moon was in ancient times. It now requires taking a number of baby-steps before taking the big plunge. And it requires the launch of three separate high-tech spacecraft. And it will take the astronauts a full week to get there, as there are now speed limits in deep space that are strictly enforced and the U.S. can not afford to have another moving violation on its record. The equipment, of course, will take even longer to get there, because it’s on a slower and more efficient course. And we may have some problems to work out in regards to deep space radiation and reentry speed.
And even after all of that, needles to say, we won’t be actually landing men on the Moon. That would probably require an additional ten years of baby-steps and the launch of at least five spacecraft. And since we’ll be checking out the far side on these proposed missions, we still won’t be able to verify all those Apollo artifacts supposedly littering the Moon. Which is really kind of a moot point, because we won’t actually be going at all.
Speaking of the far side of the Moon, by the way, the Daily Mail noted that the “surface was first photographed by Luna 3, a Soviet probe, in 1959 then the Apollo 8 mission followed in 1968 but there has been scant exploration of it since.” Translation: there has been no exploration of the far side since 1959, and it would be nice if the Daily Mail would throw in a comma now and then.
But enough about that. Let’s move on to a different topic. Remember how I argued that if it were possible to send crews to the Moon, private enterprise would have a strong financial incentive to have done so to exploit any available resources? And remember how the ‘debunkers,’ not surprisingly, claimed that there was nothing much on the Moon to see or do, especially since the strip club was shut down over some zoning dispute, so there was not really any compelling reason to go back? Well, it turns out – and this is quite shocking – that the ‘debunkers’ may be lying once again. As the LA Times reported on April 8, 2011 (W.J. Hennigan “MoonEx Aims to Scour Moon for Rare Materials”):
“A team of prominent Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are shooting for the moon with a new private venture aimed at scouring the lunar surface for precious metals and rare metallic elements. The private company Moon Express Inc., or MoonEx, is building robotic rovers alongside scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center northwest of San Jose. MoonEx’s machines are designed to look for materials that are scarce on Earth but found in everything from a Toyota Prius car battery to guidance systems on cruise missiles. While there is no guarantee the moon is flush with these materials, MoonEx officials think it may be a ‘gold mine’ of so-called rare earth elements.”
The company won’t, naturally enough, be sending any human cargo to the Moon, because that isn’t really possible, but the point here is that there are in fact compelling reasons for ‘return’ flights to the Moon, for both financial and scientific gain, so there is no validity at all to the argument that no one has been back for some forty years simply because there is no reason to go back.
Let’s briefly return now to Operation Fishbowl, which was also discussed in the last Apollo offering. Unbeknownst to me until very recently, NPR decided to dredge up the nearly fifty-year-old high-altitude nuke tests less than two weeks before I did (Robert Krulwich “A Very Scary Light Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space,” July 1, 2010). And the facts they brought to the table were rather compelling.
“If you are wondering why anybody would deliberately detonate an H-bomb in space, the answer comes from a conversation we had with science historian James Fleming of Colby College.” According to Fleming, who has been busily reading through James Van Allen’s papers while working on a biography, “a good entry point to the story is May 8, 1958, when James Van Allen, the space scientist, stands in front of the National Academy in Washington, D.C., and announces that they’ve just discovered something new about the planet.”
What Van Allen’s team had discovered, of course, was that Earth is ringed by belts of high-energy particles, now known as the Van Allen radiation belts. And what Fleming’s recent research revealed, incredibly enough, is that the “day after the press conference, [Van Allen] agreed with the military to get involved with a project to set off atomic bombs in the magnetosphere to see if they could disrupt it.”
Let’s pause here for a moment to reflect on the almost unfathomable level of megalomania at play here: immediately upon learning of the existence of the radiation belts, the military/intelligence complex decided, without even giving it much thought, that it would be a great idea to attack said belts with atomic weapons! And the ‘scientist’ who had made the discovery immediately agreed that that was a swell idea! As Fleming noted, “this is the first occasion I’ve ever discovered where someone discovered something and immediately decided to blow it up.”
Never mind that the belts are there to shield the planet from incoming space radiation, and that their existence is one of the primary reasons that biological lifeforms can thrive on this sphere … let’s just see if we can blow a big fucking hole in them! It apparently never occurred to the geniuses in Washington that if you blow a hole in the belts to, say, allow for the safe passage of spacecraft, you would also presumably allow for the unsafe passage of massive amounts of incoming, and very lethal, radiation.
This, dear readers, says a lot about the true nature of the men who rule behind the curtain. What hubris is required to put at risk every living creature on this planet, and do so without even giving it a second thought, for the dubious purpose of facilitating space missions that were never going to actually take place? And bear in mind, by the way, that these ‘tests’ took place during the tenure of a nearly mythical figure known as John Fitzgerald Kennedy. For those then who are inclined to believe that the sitting President actually calls the shots, I would suggest taking a little time to contemplate why it is that the man who many consider to have been a knight-in-shining-armor was the man who gave the thumbs-up to the most recklessly arrogant nuclear weapons tests ever conceived?
The first such tests were conducted in 1958, almost immediately after the discovery of the radiation bands. But those tests used just lowly ol’ atom bombs, and according to NPR, “Atom bombs had little effect on the magnetosphere.” Which is why in 1962, the powers-that-be decided to up the ante by using hydrogen bombs … really, really big hydrogen bombs. How big? Starfish Prime, the most ‘successful’ of the ‘tests,’ was tipped with a warhead 100 times as powerful as the bomb that leveled Hiroshima!
As detailed by NPR, “The plan was to send rockets hundreds of miles up, higher than the Earth’s atmosphere, and then detonate nuclear weapons to see: a) If a bomb’s radiation would make it harder to see what was up there (like incoming Russian missiles!); b) If an explosion would do any damage to objects nearby; c) If the Van Allen belts would move a blast down the bands to an earthly target (Moscow! for example); and – most peculiar – d) if a man-made explosion might ‘alter’ the natural shape of the belts. The scientific basis for these proposals is not clear.”
Objective “a” roughly translates to: “we had to do it to protect ourselves from those crazy Russkies!” Those with atypically long memories may recall that before the collapse of the international Communist threat neatly coincided with the rise of the international Terrorist threat, that was pretty much the all-purpose excuse for all manner of heinous activities undertaken by the Western powers. The main problem here though is that Starfish Prime was detonated at an altitude of 250 miles, roughly 50 miles beyond low-Earth orbit, and I’m reasonably certain that Soviet ICBMs weren’t designed to fly at anywhere near that altitude.
Moving on to “b,” I feel fairly confident in saying that even back in 1962, at the tender age of two, I could have provided an answer to that question, and that answer would have been: “Yes, detonating a very large hydrogen bomb will cause extensive collateral damage. Duh!”
Proceeding to “c,” I’m afraid I’m going to have to respectfully disagree with NPR on its decision to label “d” as the most peculiar. Attempting to take out Moscow in a nuclear holocaust redirected through the Van Allen belts has to rank pretty high up on the peculiarity scale. And what would be the point? Plausible deniability? “Looky what just happened to Moscow! It’s as if God himself struck a blow against the Evil Empire! I damn sure know we didn’t do it!”
As for “d,” altering the natural shape of the belts appears to have been the primary goal. Because as we all know, man can always improve upon the natural order of things. And it was immediately apparent, right from the time of their discovery, that the shape of the belts was entirely wrong for this planet. Sure, they would have been fine for, say, Mars or Venus – or even Pluto, before it was rudely kicked out of the Fraternity of Planets – but they were clearly unfit to circle this planet. So we had to try to fix them.
Luckily, we failed.
And with that, I really am now over my Apollo obsession. See you all back in Laurel Canyon!
Thanks for an informative page… I kinda never believed the lunar thing, but never no believed either… You put it in perspective
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Is this a real image from actual “Moon walks” – if it is that Gravity looks dodgy
David McGowan passed away in November of 2015, but thank you for your support of Dad’s work. I cannot answer your question as this is not something I am well-versed in personally.
He did appear to bounce a bit upon falling but I agree it doesn’t appear proper. As a child when I saw these vids of them ‘bouncing’ around the moon it smelled fishy but never gave it a second thought.
FWIW, I think if he had just let the bong take the spill he wouldn’t have made such an ass of himself.
Thank you Dave(RIP) & Alissa.
What a fantastic article. I read every sections over a day or so. Incredibly well researched. Absolutely exposes the moon hoax. I think why most people have a knee jerk reaction and revulsion to this supposed conspiracy theory is their internal recall of NASA’s very successful space station and all the low earth orbit operations, the space shuttle launches and landing and all of the stunningly beautiful pictures and live feeds. Most people cannot comprehend how absolutely primitive our technology was back in 1967. There is simply no way in hell we put people on the moon with vacuum tubes, duck tape and aluminum foil covered lunar landing modules. It is absolutely absurd. No Stars, No Dust, No moon dust disturbance from rocket engines, Perfect Pictures, Ridiculous slow motion videos, the loss of 700 boxes of files, audio files, radio transmissions, schematics, engineering drawings….Everything????, fake moon rocks, payload restrictions-yet we are hauling suitcase sized moon buggies??? Absolute bullshit. Insulting. And yet the myth is maintained. Russia remains silent, because Russia took part in the creation of the Holocaust Hoax at the Nuremberg Trials. Russia is a co-conspirator in another very very damaging Hoax. So expose us and we expose you and all the world Jewry, Israel (and international banking and finance) turns against you and your ability to operate in the global marketplace is in jeopardy.
I am annoyed that Dave went and croaked. I bought even multiple copies of all of his books. I wonder on what his take would be on the COVID scam.
It’s kind of insensitive to be annoyed by my father’s death, isn’t it? But I guess thank you for recognizing that he would have had a lot to say about COVID.
if there is anyone interested about well versed articles exposing COVID, I would highly recommend https://greatmountainpublishing.com/ by Edward Hendrie. It is a bomb! Just like this! Condolences to this fighter of truth…may you also continue in the fight for the truth, as dark times are coming wherein truth will be redefined and forgotten entirely. God bless! There is hope in God!
When I started reading this book on this site I was sort of blown away. From being a not really rabid debunker, Dave’s research has convinced me that maybe a manned flight has never left low earth orbit and that the wealth of information he has produced is quite overwhelming. I have to say that I now a believer in the faked man moon orbits and that the more I read about the (lack of progress) from the proposed moon landings to come is the difference between being able to convincingly do manned moon shots over 50 years ago yet we are struggling now suggests that the requirements of a filmed landing would be a lot easier than back then. Yet still we wait. Al most convinces me that this latest attempt is a genuine attempt. Seems like it’s a little bit tougher than previously thought. Thank you Alissa for maintaining your father’s site it so obviously work of love. Of course many reading your site feel a great sense of loss and wish that when you see so many cokesuckers in the world yet Dave was chosen. It’s a tragedy that the freest voice on the subject died so young. You must be so proud of what he achieved Alissa. He was a great man, yes he was!! Wishing you great success with your ongoing plan to make Dave’s work as available as possible. Thank you Alissa.
So,why are the Russians so mute throughout all this fakery? Surely they would have had the ability to track at least some of the B S going on and expose it,no?
At the very least now that we are receiving hi def images from Mars’ surface you would think they could show images of all of our “moon junk” that’s been left on the moon. Oops, that would only prove that we did NOT make it there.
i thought about this as well. with all the crazy tech the Russians have, they can easily disprove the nasa hoax. maybe the whole situation would be too delicate and could backfire as it would lead to an argument, with both sides presenting stuff and could potentially cast Russia in a negative light. which they dont want at all. its all risk/reward. maybe they’re not comfortable with the risk. people are stupid, so even if they’re blasted with facts from 1 side (Russia) they will be re-blasted with propaganda (murica) from the other side. in the end, may not amount to much but could make Russia look really bad.
The Russians are in the lie as well of course. Similarly they joined the fake nuke story and the terrorist story. Of course the Russian government is also corrupt.
This is just one of many such articles. The Russians know very well that we didn’t go to the moon. Why would they risk sounding stupid if they knew it was provable fact? They plant these stories so as not to directly call us liars, but knowing that if anyone with objectivity starts researching the topic, they will quickly find exactly the kind of stuff that we already know and this would begin to sow doubt among the populace as to the credibility and trustworthiness of their government. It’s a political move, for sure, but the Russians know even more about it than we do. They know the US won’t call their bluff. Instead, they’ll continue demonizing Mr. Putin to distract from their real agenda. And this isn’t some wild-ass conspiracy theory. Think it through and don’t be so trusting of governments! 🙂
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-calls-investigation-into-whether-us-moon-landings-happened-10327714.html
Here’s the link:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-calls-investigation-into-whether-us-moon-landings-happened-10327714.html
The Soviets kept their mouth shut because in 1972 the USA gifted it’s staunchest enemy whose nuclear missiles pointed at American cities at the time, 1/4 of their entire grain supply – it was dubbed the ‘great grain robbery’. This was met by fierce rebuke and protest by the American public and when the cargo ships were due to be loaded and dispatched, the US National Guard was called in to force the New York dock workers by the point of a rifle to load the containers. Shortly thereafter, the global price of grains rocketed up (no pun intended) nearly 50% on the open market, causing severe hardship on ordinary Americans after bread costs then tripled.
Why would the US show it’s mortal enemy such an extravagant act of charity, at the expense of it’s own citizens? Guess we will never know!
The truth is out always out there, if you haven’t found the answers either you just haven’t got dirt under your finger nails yet, or got distracted by the roses. Speaking of dirt, this little comment doesn’t describe even 1% of how much more dirty this Apollo fraud gets; it’s far worse, as I’m sure Dave’s research led him to conclude (he alludes to it with the Baron reference) – but I’ll leave that to someone with good life insurance.
In the most fortuitous coincidence for America (or was it the SU?), the SU was stricken by a huge wheat shortage due to abnormal weather during the late 60’s and early 70’s. Thus it happened that America “sold” a massive amount of wheat to the SU. This also kicked off a relatively short period of detente between the two countries, heralded as uniting together and putting away their differences for the good of mankind through space exploration, and eventually culminating in the Apollo-Soyuz program. (Source: AULIS online)
Have the Russians kept their mouths shut? How would we know? Would American press report it if they did say something?
In general, Russia seems to play the long game, and allows the US to mess up w/out comment most of the time.
Dear Alissa. I’m so sorry about your father’s passing. My mother died of cancer young. How is the progress with the Moon book?
Thanks, Michael. I set that project down a few months ago, but hopefully I’ll be able to restart it this year.
Allisa … think again about the comment by ERLE re your Dad passing away. His seemingly rough verbiage riffs on Dave’s own style of humor. Which harkens back to ‘Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas’… one of the great pieces of original genius comedy. Dave McGowan is up there in that league. His writing helped me immensely come to terms with the 1960s + 70s
Rest in Peace until Judgment Day
Dear Americans – can you please stop calling the Soviet Union ‘the Russians’. The USSR and Russia are two distinctly different enities, especially when considering political ideology. Until you understand the difference, you are doomed to keep being propagandized by your media into being Russophobes, and thus permitting your deep state MI complex to pursue hostility and global hegemony. Modern Russia does not represent any threat to the USA, if only you would stop trying to destabilse it, surround it with NATO, regime change it, destabilise it and break it up for the benfit of western corporate elites (many of them descendants of the Nazi;s as the author of this site has alluded too). The world will be a better place if you really get over your mindset and learn to get along. Of course you will need to change the entire nature of your political system first – good luck with that!
BTW, I once read that the Soviets had many very serious failures in their space program before any significant successes, which were all kept hidden from their own public, and which the Americans knew perfectly well about – a good reason for the Soviets to not publicly call out the NASA hoax, lest they get it back.
Thank you Dave! God bless you and I hope you have all of the answers now. I read this entire series in a day and a morning. Simply fascinating. Great writing, especially in the age of the “Memory Hole”. Tried to get the link to come up on google, but it would not. Why censor something that is not true? Glad I read it before it disappears altogether!
Highly logical, Dave. Thanks for this brilliant piece. Exposing lies with humor and logic is not easy but this work held together seamlessly. The moon landing has more holes than Swiss Cheese!
Just terrific. Such an eye-opener! Looking forward to reading the other Dave series.
Surely a new Apollo crew can be assembled from various “Jackass” rejects and Tide Pod challenge takers that would make the original astronauts look like complete pussies?
My view is this nuclear bomb story in space is fake as well. This is a good website where you will realize that nuclear weapons suffer from the same proof deficit as the moon landings.
http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/on-this-atom-bomb-anniversary-youre-being-lied-to-about-hiroshima-and-much-more-to-make-you-fearful/
There are no atomic bombs. Where is proof of any destruction? Trinity, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were clearly fake, so the burden of proof now lies with the governments. By the way, I always like the reason why the South Africans don’t have nukes anymore. You cannot leave them to bushmen. Or you cannot pass on the lie to them…
Glad to see this truth get more traction. great website!
Russia is the same being, from another perspective
over and out
This is precious and priceless information that will be vital to successive generations of Americans who will look back on this sophomoric period of our young government’s absurd hubris as a prime example of the runaway power of media and propaganda as mind control and that we continue to collectively awake from. This will be a rung in the historical ladder to a better understanding of what happens to the Republic when business of Democracy is allowed to run roughshod over the People.
I love that so many people are still discussing Dave’s work, it’s reassuring to me to revisit these articles and see people still engaged, still thinking and questioning. Thanks so much, Alissa, for keeping this material available!
Of course! I love it too. It’s too bad Dad’s mega-outdated original website didn’t have a commenting feature.
RIP Dave. I’ve read the Moondoggie articles multiple times. I never believed the moon landings were real because we just didn’t have the engineering or technology at the time. These excellent articles give great points for debate woother people.
For anyone reading this and just discovering Dave’s work, I would encourage you to order ‘Understanding the F word’. Great book. I read all of Dave’s stuff. This article and that book are my favorites.
Got here from a link in comments at the burning platform.com. Glad I did. Born in 68 and fully immersed in the dogma of Apollo. Started to rethink it after so many hints on the internet, but Dave did a great and thorough job here. Can’t wait to read the rest of his work.
Years ago I met an engineer who had worked for NASA and knew about the attempt to blow up the Van Allen belt. It was news to me at the time, but I don’t think it’s ever really been a secret. It’s not exactly something that government schools are going to teach kids about, or mainstream media draw attention to. But it’s important for people to understand how dangerous these buffoons are, and how they just might, sooner or later, get us all killed.
Regarding the “moon landings”, I have gradually come to the conclusion that they were indeed faked, just to show up the Soviets. Dave’s series does a marvelous job of showing how almost every facet of the official story is implausible (often comically so).
Except, you couldn’t fool the Soviets. They had radar systems that could track objects going to the moon.
Why? Because they sent objects to the moon themselves. They even sent a probe that flew at the same time as Apollo 11. It was the first time we shared tracking data with the Soviets.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/50-years-soviet-probe-raced-apollo-11-moon/story?id=64404137
India in the last few years put an satellite around the moon. They got a picture of what remains of the Apollo 11 lander:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Chandrayaan-2_Apollo.jpg
I can’t overestimate how important this work on the moon missions is. Well-researched, clear and humorous too as befits one of the great hoodwinks of all time. I now refer people to this series and Gerhard Wisniewski’s One Small Step? as the two must-reads. Thank you Dave McGowan!
There are a number of hoax researchers/presenters out there these days, but I have yet to come across anything that so thoroughly eviscerates any notion that the supposed “moon landings” were real as these articles. RIP Dave, you did great work.
As to why the Russians didn’t spoil the fakery, they relied on American bankers for their money and America’s grain exports for their food. They were (and are) the best fake enemy money can buy.
China: see Russia.
Thanks for putting it all back up. Dave surely had an acid wit that I appreciate, so I bought all of his books, some several copies.
As a smoker myself, I would wish that he didn’t smoke so much. It would be great to have him around about now.
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There has never been such a prescient piece of writing as when he did the next day after 9/11.
Is it possible he was killed by some gov organization with a fast acting cancer?
Some interesting points. You would think with all the Nazis brought back after the war we could have a space program up and running a lot faster than advertised.
This document could be even stronger if there were verifiable foot notes and documents, especially from government archives. This in regard to space suit design, recent articles about going back to the moon, etc.
Another thing is how NASA, according to Richard Hoagland, every launch was timed to Egyptian astrological concepts. Hoagland thinks we went to the moon, but he does have an interesting book called Dark Mission The Secret History of NASA.
With all the “talk” of “returning” to the moon one would think the most expeditious way would be to hire someone to search all of NASA’s warehouses, museums and computer systems to recover all the relevant data for the Saturn V, Loony Lander, computer systems, rockets, etc. The cost would certainly be far less than reinventing that story book program from scratch.
Of course that will never happen since the whole thing was a fairy tale.
Hi Alissa;
Thank you for your efforts to keep Dave’s insightful work in the public eye. While looking into the potential fallout of the ongoing Epstein scandals I came across another earlier work of Dave’s.
The Pedophocracy >> http://www.whale.to/b/pedophocracy.html
It is an important work on the politics of pedophilia and I was thinking it might get wider exposure if it was added to this site. Unless he did not wish it to be there of course.
Thanks again.
I think he took it down because it was published in Programmed to Kill. Not entirely sure about that, but it is part of that book, and it wasn’t part of the old website when we transferred it.
Truly a great read and a great mind in Dave to present it with clarity and humor. I’ve used this reference many times for others to see the deceit and propaganda in our government. 9/11 revelations would have been a wonderful trip with Dave as the pilot. Thanks Dave for your work (RIP) and to Alissa for keeping it alive.
Sad at the passing of such wit and bravery. What Dave left us with are jewels to be cared for, put away and admired, shown to our children and “know it all’s”. Thank you his dear daughter Alissa for keeping on keeping on. Your reward will come after you pass this lowly existence as had your wonderful Father.
Great writers need good readers. We presently suffer a dearth of both.
EOB
Great stuff and funny too! but how the hell can they send spacecraft that take pictures while they say that the camera onboard Apollo could have been affected? (at the same years, both with silver) and why aren’t those unmanned craft not afraid of high and low temp?
Thanks Dave RIP …… the best and through research I have read ……… ha and super funny 🔥🔥✌️💜💚🧡
Fascinating material. Thank you so much!
On midget astronauts, see the sci-fi classic “The Space Merchants” featuring the first guy to Venus who became a celebrity arsehole but finds redemption:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/392566.The_Space_Merchants
For anybody who actually thinks the moon landing was a hoax after reading this just read this and if you still believe otherwise… well you’re a lost cause
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-expert-moon-footage-impossible-fake.html
Now that’s what I call propaganda! I guess you didn’t read this series then.
It would take too long to address every item “Actually Adam” raises so I’ll just point out one; everybody at NASA had to be in on it. Actually (see how smart you sound if you begin every sentence with the word actually) these type of operations are by necessity highly compartmentalized. The majority of the people involved have a task to perform and they are not supposed to go beyond that narrow task. For example, the sailors that were on board the USS Maddox in 1964 were not privy to the fact that they were going to be involved in falsifying the provocation for the Viet Nam war, but that’s exactly what happened according to NSA documents declassified in 2005.
Anybody with even a smidgen of curiosity should find these articles by Dave extremely informative. Dave creates a very compelling foundation of facts which he uses to get his point across in a hilarious yet easy to understand manner. I just discovered Dave’s work 3 days ago and have already been through the Laurel Canyon articles, the Boson Marathon posts, and finished it off with Waggin’ the Moondoggie tonight. This man was a phenomenally talented investigative journalist and extremely funny. Having been born in 1960 I feel as if I have been blessed with a new friend I never had a chance to meet in real life. Thank you Alissa for keeping this information available to all for free.
Alissa, thanks you very much for keeping this site up. I just came across your dad’s work a couple of weeks ago with the Laurel Canyon book and now this site. Not sure how I never came across your dad’s work before as I’ve been down the rabbit hole for quite some time. Better late than never, I guess.
Cheers!
I started reading this series 5 hours ago and have just finished. Dave and I share the same birth year (1960) and by his writing, he was highly intelligent and forward thinking. Thank you Dave (you left us far too soon) I think it would have been absolute joy to correspond with him. I am now looking forward to the next series in his portfolio.
Any interstellar travel through the vacuum of space would entail hours, indeed days, of exposure to various forms of radiation. That would of course include the time spent on the Moon’s surface, as it has no atmosphere, or any protection at all from radiation.
Absolutely loved this series! I laughed all the way through. Out loud, not just to myself. Even startled the dogs a couple of times. Lots of howlers in there.
I have been sharing this series for at least 2 years now. I am really glad to see so many people ‘getting it’ with regard to the maniacs in charge. The same ones who killed JFK and faked the moon landing are still running the show and obviously more insane than ever. I sure wish Dave was around to cover the Covid19 hoax. Thank you, Alissa for preserving and posting his work. I know how much work that is.
There is a possibility that the Moonlandings might have been real after all : most of technology deployed, especially as regards magnetic protection against space radiation, was borrowed from aliens from other planets, but they did not judge it wise to confide it to humans, only to let them use for a few missions. Maybe NASA will soon be compelled to give that explanation to the general public, while they will be also credited with the invention of mRNA vaccines that will allow human to change their sex and their race for real.
Brilliant work! The whole archive is brilliant, too. Thanks for putting all this together.
This is THE best resource for waking the slumbering masses.
Fascinating series! Excellent research, humor, and prose. I had doubts about the “moon landings” but after reading this series I am now certain that they were a hoax.
Alissa, please seriously consider publishing this as a book for posterity. It would be a shame if it somehow got erased from the internet in this age of Big Tech censorship against anything that threatens the zombie narrative.
Read the original way back.
Brilliant!
Capricorn One really was in yer face.
Thanks Allies for keeping it going!
I wondered if I were the only one who remembered “Capricorn One”. I’ve not seen it in years but should look to see if a copy is still available.
If NASA was a single person, he would be accused, tried, and jailed for deception, fakery.
Wow! I was born in 1959 and I just found out Santa Claus isn’t real. I yell at my son last year when he questioned the moon landings. I’ve been laughing my ass off over this. I’m watching the nasa site about the Orion missions and now it’s so clear to me the moon landings were fake. Thanks for this.
Alissa, I just want to say thanks for maintaining this website so people like me are able to discover and read your dad’s work all these years later. I’ve watched his work become increasingly cited online in the past few years, and it’s heartwarming to see him get the recognition he deserved. He was a great writer and even better critical thinker.
I just discovered this sire today via the Boston bombing. I first became aware of all the hoaxes/false flags after seeing the pentagon strike flash webpage about 18 years ago. I am blown away by how Dave knew 9/11 was staged the day it happened. Alissa, thank you for keeping his work available.
great read. funny enough, within the last few months a new “new” nasa space suit has been unveiled(i looked and they have done this four times in the last five years) and the former head of roscomos(as previously mentioned in 2018) has come out and claimed that he could find no evidence of the moon landing. his interest piqued by the fact that the apollo 11 astronauts bounced out of their spacecraft like “like cucumbers from the garden.” while his cosmonauts were barely able to stand on their feet and undergoing long recoveries.
great writing. great research. great wit. great balls of fire.
Just conjecture, but I wonder if the atmospheric bomb tests were really about EMP research, and not about blowing any holes in the Van Allen radiation belts. This would explain why the bombs seemed to go off at random altitudes. It wouldn’t be the first time that the military lied about what it was really doing.