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At least some of the telemetry tapes from the ALSEP scientific experiments left on the Moon (which ran until 1977) still exist, according to Dr. Williams. Measuring 100' in diameter and 122' high, it was ideal for testing the Mars lander systems and International Space Station hardware. In November 2004 the Dynamics Stand (E Stand) became the first to fall. Every weekday we compile our most wondrous stories and deliver them straight to you. By May 1974 the staff had mothballed all of the Rocket Systems Area sites. Some of the testings were done in a NASA training facility. The reactor was originally planned for the NACA nuclear airplane project. [a][15] Folklorist Linda Dgh suggests that writer-director Peter Hyams' film Capricorn One (1978), which shows a hoaxed journey to Mars in a spacecraft that looks identical to the Apollo craft, might have given a boost to the hoax theory's popularity in the post-Vietnam War era. Plum Brook is situated on 6,400 acres in Sandusky and is home to some of the world's most powerful space simulation chambers that support the Artemis mission to return to the moon, making this. [149] Research quickly found, however, that the video was a hoax. NASA raised "about US$30 billion" to go to the Moon, and Kaysing claimed in his book that this could have been used to "pay off" many people. Their flight paths were tracked using radar and they were sighted and photographed using telescopes. Page Editor: Robert Arrighi While the LRO images have been enjoyed by the scientific community as a whole, they have not done anything to convince conspiracists that the landings happened. You should see the reCAPTCHA field below. The flag placed on the surface by the astronauts fluttered despite there being no wind on the Moon. 8. We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the worlds hidden wonders. One rebuttal by Sibrel to this claim is that NASA had compartmentalized all of the work on the Apollo program. Oberg says that belief in the hoax theories is not the fault of the conspiracists, but rather that of teachers and people (including NASA) who should provide information to the public. [176][177][178] If NASA had used similar robot technology, then between 300 and 2,000 robot missions would have been needed to collect the current amount of Moon rocks that is held by NASA. Conspiracists have focused on perceived gaps or inconsistencies in the historical record of the missions. [133][134] For example, in 1973, one year after the final Moon landing, the Xerox Alto was released. They called on NASA to restore the test facilities at Plum Brook and resume operation. Many computers at the time were very large despite poor specs. On July 17, 2009, NASA released low-resolution engineering test photos of the Apollo 11, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 landing sites that have been photographed by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter as part of the process of starting its primary mission. In 1985 the Office of Management and Budget recommended that NASA relinquish control of Plum Brook Station. This suggests that it was filmed on Earth and a breeze caused the flag to flutter. The number of deaths within the American astronaut corps during the run-up to Apollo and during the Apollo missions is similar to the number of deaths incurred by the Soviets. [113] Parkes had a bigger antenna than NASA's antenna in Australia at the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, so it received a better picture. NASA also notes that all of the operations and phases of the Apollo program were closely followed and under the scrutiny of the news media, from liftoff to splashdown. In a televised program about the Moon-landing hoax allegations, Fox Entertainment Group listed the deaths of ten astronauts and two civilians related to the crewed spaceflight program as part of an alleged cover-up. In 2015, a report from NASAs inspector general made the disconcerting announcement that all but one of the major test facilities at Plum Brook Station had few or no customers. Overall, however, Plum Brook remained quiet. The foremost idea is that the whole crewed landing program was a hoax from start to end. NASA Official: Anne Mills BROOK PARK, Ohio NASA proposed a budget on Monday of $802.4 million for Glenn Research Center in fiscal 2021, down from an unofficial 2020 budget of $945 million. The NASA Space Environmental Test (SET) Project is tasked to develop new environmental test facilities to support NASA's developing space exploration program. . "[171] NASA continues to send teams to work in Antarctica to mimic the conditions on other planets. The astronauts had relied on computers to aid in the Moon missions. [185] Officials of the Fox network said that such skepticism rose to about 20% after the February 2001 airing of their network's television special, Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?, seen by about 15 million viewers. The combination of the Lewis Field and Plum Brook locations comprise over 6,800 acres of land and include 450 research and test facilities. Between 1975 and 1985, the researchers investigated several different configurations on the machine. Typical delays in communication were about 0.5 seconds. The tapes are believed to have been stored rather than re-used. [30], Also, there was nothing "abrupt" about the Apollo cancellations, which were made for cost-cutting reasons. For much of the early stages of the Space Race, the USSR was ahead of the United States, yet in the end, the USSR was never able to fly a crewed spacecraft to the Moon, let alone land one on the surface. 1. Some conspiracists have suggested that Starfish Prime (a high-altitude nuclear test in 1962) formed another intense layer on the Van Allen belt.[82]. It is argued that, because the USSR was unable to do this, the United States should have also been unable to develop the technology to do so. In terms of astronaut/cosmonaut time, the USSR had 534 hours of crewed spaceflight whereas the United States had 1,992 hours. Moon landing conspiracy theoriesclaim that some or all elements of the Apollo programand the associated Moon landingswere hoaxesstaged by NASA, possibly with the aid of other organizations. In a cavernous structure at NASA's Plum Brook Station near Lake Erie, a concrete chamber five stories high rises from the ground. In some photos, the crosshairs appear to be behind objects. Dgh writes: "The mass media catapult these half-truths into a kind of twilight zone where people can make their guesses sound as truths. A multiagency commission, however, reviewed the assessment and came to a different conclusion. There was very little activity at Plum Brook until the late 1980s when Lewis Research Center reactivated four test sites and resumed testing. [48] With the number of people involved, and noting the Watergate scandal, Jillette noted that someone would have outed the hoax by now. In June 1977, NASA issued a fact sheet responding to recent claims that the Apollo Moon landings had been hoaxed. Get top stories, military space news and more delivered to your inbox. NASA's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio is now the In May 2008, JAXA reported detecting the "halo" generated by the Apollo 15 Lunar Module engine exhaust from a Terrain Camera image. The arms of the crosshair are washed-out on the white stripes of the flag (Photo ID: AS15-88-11863), Close-up of the flag, showing washed-out crosshairs. Furthermore, NASA and others say that these gains by the Soviets are not as impressive as they seem; that a number of these firsts were mere stunts that did not advance the technology greatly, or at all, e.g., the first woman in space. [166][167] The Indian Space Research Organisation launched their uncrewed lunar probe on September 8, 2008 (IST), from Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The inspector general recommended NASA create a long-term strategy for either maintaining or disposing of underutilized infrastructure at Plum Brook. All rights reserved. After that was cancelled in 1961, it became the primary NASA facility for space-related nuclear energy research and development. The war was one of several federal budget items with which NASA had to compete; NASA's budget peaked in 1966, and fell by 42% by 1972. Some of the facilities, most of which date back to the 1960s, are so rundown they require millions of dollars in repairs costs that must be borne by prospective customers who show no sign of materializing, the IG wrote. Neither the Atomic Energy Commission nor NASA Lewis had been given any indication that the nuclear propulsion program would be cancelled until the budget was officially announced on January 5, 1973. The deaths were an accident. Parkes supposedly had the clearest video feed from the Moon, but Australian media and all other known sources ran a live feed from the United States. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. Lowry Digital president Mike Inchalik said that, "this is by far and away the lowest quality" video the company has dealt with. [199], In 2019, Ipsos conducted a study for C-Span to assess the level of belief that the 1969 Moon landing was faked. Plum Brook Station, located about 50 miles west of NASA's Glenn Research enter in Sandusky, Ohio, is home to several unique space-related test facilities, including the Space Power Facility (SPF), an environmental simulation chamber used to test hardware in a simulated space or planetary environment. Some staff members found new positions at Lewis, but hundreds of others were soon out of work. [c] Hundreds of thousands of people including astronauts, scientists, engineers, technicians, and skilled laborers would have had to keep the secret. Copies of those tapes have been found.[120]. Plum Brook Station is a test facility for NASA's Glenn Research Center. Orion progress at KSC, consumable offload planned for EM-1. [41] In fact, the ending of the landings was not "sudden" (see Space Race above). The problem is that nobody has yet committed to testing an engine at B-2. After Apollo 18 was canceled, the other LRV was used for spare parts for the Apollos 15 to 17 missions. These may be labeled studio props. The reactor and Rocket Systems Area remained shuttered. The Moon rocks also share the same traits as Soviet samples.[169]. Instead, far from calling the landings a hoax, the third edition (19701979) of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (which was translated into English between 1974 and 1983 by Macmillan Publishers, and was later made available online by TheFreeDictionary.com[22]) contained many articles reporting the landings as factual, such as its article on Neil Armstrong. They point to oddities in photos and films taken on the Moon. NASA agreed, and, in a letter appended to the audit report, said it would present the strategy in a report to Krista Paquin, associate administrator for mission support, in September. Offer available only in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico). Plum Brook Station is the 2590 hectare (6400 acre) field station of NASA Glenn Research Center. It was also used to shoot some scenes from the 2012 Marvel movie The Avengers. In 2004 NASA began funding the demolition of unused facilities across the agency. [172][173] However, the first Antarctic lunar meteorite was found in 1979, and its lunar origin was not recognized until 1982. [105], 4. Engineers inspect the inlet of a prototype Hypersonic Research Engine scramjet prior to a test run in Hypersonic Tunnel Facility. [145], In July 2009, Weidner posted on his webpage "Secrets of the Shining", where he states that Kubrick's The Shining (1980) is a veiled confession of his role in the scam project. [182] Smaller retroreflectors were also put on the Moon by the Russians; they were attached to the uncrewed lunar rovers Lunokhod 1 and Lunokhod 2. It shows the Earth with the correct background of stars, Long-exposure photo (1.6 seconds at f/2.8, ISO 10000) from the ISS in July 2011 of Space Shuttle Atlantis re-entry in which some stars are visible. "[16] In A Man on the Moon,[17] first published in 1994, Andrew Chaikin mentions that at the time of Apollo 8's lunar-orbit mission in December 1968,[18] similar conspiracy ideas were already in circulation.[19]. The Space Power Facility (SPF) at the NASA Glenn Research Center's (GRC) Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio is already the home of the world's largest thermal vacuum chamber. 4. For example, he claims that, during the Apollo program, the USSR had five times more crewed hours in space than the United States, and notes that the USSR was the first to achieve many of the early milestones in space: the first artificial satellite in orbit (October 1957, Sputnik 1);[d] the first living creature in orbit (a dog named Laika, November 1957, Sputnik 2); the first man in space and in orbit (Yuri Gagarin, April 1961, Vostok 1); the first woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova, June 1963, Vostok 6); and the first spacewalk (Alexei Leonov in March 1965, Voskhod 2). NASA Plum Brook Station In-Space Propulsion Facility Test Stand Characterization Hot Fire Test A test facility modification to enable small scale altitude propulsion testing at the NASA Glenn Research Center's In-Space Propulsion (ISP) Facility was verified with a hot fire test campaign. During the period 1961 to 1972, at least eight Soviet serving and former cosmonauts died: Additionally, the overall chief of their crewed-spaceflight program, Sergei Korolev, died while undergoing surgery in January 1966. NASA said that von Braun's mission was "to look into environmental and logistic factors that might relate to the planning of future space missions, and hardware. Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance. (See List of human spaceflights, 19611970, and refer to individual flights for the length of time.). [163] Photos of the Apollo 12 landing site were released by NASA on September 3, 2009. [32] (See Vietnam War below. She also said that several letters appeared in The West Australian discussing the Coca-Cola bottle incident within ten days of the lunar landing.[71]. The entire process ultimately cost $253 million, significantly more than the inflation-adjusted cost of constructing the facility.[4]. NASA's Glenn Research Center's world-class facilities and expert staff help develop and verify cutting-edge technologies in the areas of aeronautics, aerospace and space. Here, highly specialized facilities allow NASA and the international space community to carry out complex and innovative ground tests. The B-2 Spacecraft Propulsion Research Facility had last been used in 1998, and both the Hypersonic Test Facility and the Cryogenic Components Laboratory hadnt been used in four years. NASA and ERDA constructed larger wind turbines at other sites around the country to study the integration of wind energy into the local power grids. To broadcast the pictures to regular television, a scan conversion had to be done. Some former Apollo personnel want to find the tapes for posterity while NASA engineers looking towards future Moon missions believe the tapes may be useful for their design studies. Not to be confused with, Claimed motives of the United States and NASA, In 1968, Clarke and Kubrick had collaborated on the film. Much third-party evidence for the landings exists, and detailed rebuttals to the hoax claims have been made. The US$230,000 restoration project took months to complete and did not include sound quality improvements. Then theres a wind tunnel called the Hypersonic Tunnel facility, which allows NASA to test the aircraft of the future at speeds up to seven times the speed of sound. The exception is that of Apollo 11, which has lain on the lunar surface since being blown over by the Lunar Module Ascent Propulsion System. The photos were taken by a hyperspectral camera fitted as part of the mission's image payload. By 1977 the Hare Krishna magazine Back to Godhead called the landings a hoax, claiming that, since the Sun is 150millionkm (93millionmi) away, and "according to Hindu mythology the Moon is 800,000 miles [1,300,000km] farther away than that", the Moon would be nearly 151millionkm (94millionmi) away; to travel that span in 91 hours would require a speed of more than a million miles per hour, "a patently impossible feat even by the scientists' calculations. The steady reduction of NASAs budget in the late 1960s and early 1970s coincided with the agencys decision to develop the space shuttle. 3. Plum Brook is part of the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center and is home to unique world-class facilities that conduct critical and innovative tests for the international aerospace community. Its used for testing full-scale space hardware, including parts of rockets, Mars landers, and space stations. [151], In 2004, Martin Hendry and Ken Skeldon of the University of Glasgow were awarded a grant by the UK-based Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council to investigate Moon landing conspiracy theories. [36], Mary Bennett and David Percy claimed in the 2001 book Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers, that, with all the known and unknown hazards,[37] NASA would not risk broadcasting an astronaut getting sick or dying on live television. Cropped photo of Buzz Aldrin saluting the flag (the fingers of Aldrin's right hand can be seen behind his helmet), Cropped photo taken a few seconds later, Buzz Aldrin's hand is down, head turned toward the camera, the flag is unchanged, Animation of the two photos, showing that though Armstrong's camera moved between exposures, the flag is not waving. One passage on how Kubrick was supposedly coerced into the conspiracy reads: NASA further leveraged their position by threatening to publicly reveal the heavy involvement of Mr. Kubrick's younger brother, Raul, with the American Communist Party. The center did not bring the Rocket Systems Area sites, which had fallen into disrepair during the interim, back online. Credit: NASA. [150], In 2002, NASA granted US$15,000 to James Oberg for a commission to write a point-by-point rebuttal of the hoax claims. The tapes contain the original and highest quality video feed from the Apollo 11 landing. Termination of Plum Brook Activities (1973), Bruce Lundin Talk to Plum Brook Staff (1974), Capabilities and Facilities of Plum Brook (c1970), Potential Use of Plum Brook Facilities (1973), NASA Ohio Preservation Office Agreement (2012). For example, 2001 was released before the first Apollo landing and Kubrick's depiction of the Moon's surface differs greatly from its appearance in the Apollo footage. It's home to the antenna that received the first images of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. "[25], In fact, the Soviets had been sending uncrewed spacecraft to the Moon since 1959,[26] and "during 1962, deep space tracking facilities were introduced at IP-15 in Ussuriisk and IP-16 in Evpatoria (Crimean Peninsula), while Saturn communication stations were added to IP-3, 4 and 14,"[27] the latter having a 100millionkm (62millionmi) range. The first was a 100-kW experimental wind turbine at Plum Brook that Lewis researchers erected and operated. Like Atlas Obscura and get our latest and greatest stories in your Facebook feed. Later Apollo missions did not use SSTV. Despite the undeniably impressive facilities at Plum Brook, the station has its problems. In 2002, Alex R. Blackwell of the University of Hawaii pointed out that some photos taken by Apollo astronauts[158] while in orbit around the Moon show the landing sites. This would have allowed for only a small number of people to actually know the truth about faking the Moon landings.[49]. However, still photos of the original SSTV image are available (see photos). The Space Power Facility has a recent history of attracting commercial customers, too. David Scott drops a hammer and feather on the Moon, 1. Note the near-transparency of the exhaust, even in air (water is being sprayed up from below), Atlas uses non-hypergolic kerosene (RP-1) fuel which gives a bright and very visible exhaust, 1.5MN (340,000lbf) of thrust, Bright flame from first stage of the Saturn V, burning RP-1, 3. Activities at the reactor were terminated immediately, and the other facilities would shut down by fiscal year 1974. [143] It has been claimed that when 2001 was in post-production in early 1968, NASA secretly approached Kubrick to direct the first three Moon landings. Dgh sees a parallel with other attitudes during the post-Watergate era, when the American public were inclined to distrust official accounts. Technically, this allowed the mothballed test stands to be reactivated within 3 months. The air conditioning units that were part of the astronauts' spacesuits could not have worked in an environment of no atmosphere.[109]. [181] The Apollo 14 astronauts deployed a retroreflector on February 5, 1971, and McDonald Observatory detected it the same day. Thanks for contacting us! NASA responds to Bill Kaysing's book, We Never Went to the Moon, by identifying one of his claims of fraud regarding the lack of a crater left on the Moon's surface by the landing of the lunar module, and refuting it with facts about the soil and cohesive nature of the surface of the Moon. NASA refers to the rocks and particles collected from the Moon as being evidence of the program's legitimacy, as they claim that these rocks could not have been formed under conditions on Earth. Moon-landing conspiracists focus heavily on NASA photos. [40], The American Patriot Friends Network claimed in 2009 that the landings helped the United States government distract public attention from the unpopular Vietnam War, and so crewed landings suddenly ended about the same time that the United States ended its involvement in the war. Measuring 100' in diameter and 122' high, it was ideal for testing the Mars lander systems and International Space Station hardware. Jason Joey Berry, 39, of Montreal, Canada, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and import it into the United States, resulting in serious bodily injury and death. Photography experts (including those unrelated to NASA) have replied that the oddities are consistent with what should be expected from a real Moon landing, and are not consistent with tweaked or studio imagery. In December 1972 NASA canceled all of its nuclear propulsion and power programs, resulting in the closure of Plum Brook Station [today, the Neil Armstrong Test Facility]. There appear to be "hot spots" in some photos that look like a large spotlight was used in place of the Sun. 2. According to the article, Dr. Richard West said that his team would take "a high-resolution image of one of the Apollo landing sites." [121] Goddard was storing 35,000 new tapes per year in 1967,[122] even before the Moon landings. [163] The photos show the descent stage of the landers from each mission on the Moon's surface. 2. Short-exposure photo of the International Space Station (ISS) taken from Space Shuttle Atlantis in February 2008 during STS-122 one of many photos taken in space where no stars are visible, Earth and Mir in June 1995 an example of how sunlight can outshine the stars, making them invisible, Long-exposure photo taken from the Moon's surface by Apollo 16 astronauts using the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph. The cavernous vacuum chamber continues to attract a steady stream of customers, including SpaceX, which has tested both its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft at the facility. [186] This Fox special is seen as having promoted the hoax claims. Various groups and individuals have made claims since the mid-1970s that NASA and others knowingly misled the public into believing the landings happened, by manufacturing, tampering with, or destroying evidence including photos, telemetry tapes, radio and TV transmissions, and Moon rock samples. 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