>>23266000 (pb)
Who is the Party Elder calling the shots in Beijing?
14:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_ibVlh0I-8
I'm an old fag…both in time on these boards and age.
I use to work for the govt. (NASA) and was hired on after the Challenger accident…anyway, looking back with the knowledge I've gained here, some things I was around for look different with this perspective.
I worked at JSC as an engineer on Shuttle. After Challenger the Shuttle was to get out of DOD missions and the manifest was primarily filled with flights around Mission To Planet Earth (MTPE was initiated by President George Bush in 1989) "The mission is to use spacecraft and space technology to provide a comprehensive scientific study of the earth's living systems as viewed from space. Using satellites with precise measuring equipment, the mission will provide information about weather patterns, climate , oceans, coastlines, surface activity, atmospheric conditions, natural disasters, pollution , and hundreds of other measurements."
This was the time of the end of the Cold War (The Berlin Wall came down on November 9,1989)…Anyway I knew a guy that work on plans for developing a new space station…there wasn't much effort put into it…funding didn't seem like it would be forthcoming. Then the news started reporting about how the Soviet nuclear weapons programs were vulnerable to 3rd world countries stealing/buying material and scientists for their own programs. Then NASA was instructed to start working with Russia on a missions to Mir (Soviet space station)…people I knew who worked those missions said Mir was falling apart and was unsafe.
Then the person I knew that was working station (hadn't seen him for like 6 months) shows back up and says that he was pulled away to quickly develop plans for a new space station that was to be a joint effort with Russia. He said they had a small budget / timetable and had to cut out a lot of the science capabilities.
Station then essentially filled up the whole manifest for the Shuttle and…No more Mission To Planet Earth.
So…if there had been a Mission to Planet Earth, I suspect the science would have made the Climate Change narrative fall apart.
Well…now I don't know if the threat of Soviet scientist / nuke material getting into the wrong hands was real or created to kill the MTPE.
Some sauce:
https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mission-planet-earth-nasa
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/June-29/u-s-space-shuttle-docks-with-russian-space-station
I didn't work there during the Apollo days…but the people I worked with did…and they all believed we went to the moon.
These reflectors can be used today…
Why Is the Apollo Reflector Experiment Still Operating, 50 Years Later?
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By Elizabeth Howell published July 11, 2019
An epic lunar laser experiment is still going strong, five decades after the Apollo astronauts set it up on the surface.
The moonwalking crew of Apollo 11, which landed on the moon 50 years ago this month, put special retroreflectors on the lunar surface, as did the later crews of Apollo 14 and 15, in 1971. (Another retroreflector, built by the French, sits on the Soviet Lunokhod 2 rover that landed without a crew in 1973.)
The NASA experiment, called the laser ranging retroreflector, is "a special type of mirror with the property of always reflecting an incoming light beam back in the direction it came from," explained the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in a statement. And the reflector is key for measuring the distance between the Earth and the moon, the institute added.
https://www.space.com/apollo-retroreflector-experiment-still-going-50-years-later.html
most welcome…