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NASA Sets Out Its Red Lines for 2024 Moon Landing

Article by John Varge                                May 16, 2020                             (express.co.uk)

• The ‘Artemis Program’ is NASA’s project – supported by other international space programs and private companies – to establish a permanent human settlement on the Moon by 2028, beginning by landing two astronauts near the lunar south pole in 2024. On May 15th, NASA officials revealed the core values underpinning its mission in a document called the Artemis Accords (see here). NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted: “Today I’m honored to announce the #Artemis Accords agreements — establishing a shared vision and set of principles for all international partners that join in humanity’s return to the Moon. We go, together.”

• NASA said its over-riding vision was to “create a safe and transparent environment which facilitates exploration, science and commercial activities for all of humanity to enjoy.” This vision is in accordance with the “peaceful purposes only” principles enshrined in the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, the founding document of international space law, which has been ratified by more than 100 countries, including the US.

• The Accords seek to ensure no “harmful interference” by one nation in the off-Earth affairs of another, and to publicly disclose their exploration plans and policies as well as sharing their scientific data. Artemis partners pledge to protect historic sites and artefacts on the Moon and other cosmic locales, as well as to help minimize space-junk.

• Private Moon landers will begin to ferry NASA science and technology experiments to the lunar surface next year. The Accords also cover the space mining of resources on the Moon, Mars and asteroids conducted under the auspices of the Outer Space Treaty. Moon landers will be built by commercial companies such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX. SpaceX is currently developing its huge ‘Starship’ vehicle to help colonize Mars. Starship will launch atop a huge rocket called ‘Super Heavy’, but will land on, and launch off of, the Moon and Mars on its own. Other companies awarded contracts, worth a total of $967 million for 10 months of work, are Blue Origin and Dynetics.

• NASA’s Jim Bridenstine said, “This is the first time since the Apollo era that NASA has direct funding for a human landing system, and now we have companies on contract to do the work for the Artemis program.” “America is moving forward with the final step needed to land astronauts on the Moon by 2024,” including the first woman set foot on the lunar surface.

 

The US Space Agency has always recognised that international cooperation will be vital if its Artemis programme is to succeed. Artemis is the ambitious project to land two astronauts near the lunar south pole in 2024, as a precursor to establishing a permanent human lunar settlement by 2028. On Friday, NASA officials revealed the core values underpinning its mission in a document called the Artemis Accords, which stress the peaceful nature of its exploration.

In a tweet, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine wrote: “It’s a new dawn for space exploration!

NASA’s Jim Bridenstine and SpaceX’s Elon Musk, doing his famous ‘Zoolander’ impression

“Today I’m honored to announce the #Artemis Accords agreements — establishing a shared vision and set of principles for all international partners that join in humanity’s return to the Moon.

“We go, together.”

In accordance with principles enshrined in the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, NASA said its over-riding vision was to “create a safe and transparent environment which facilitates exploration, science and commercial activities for all of humanity to enjoy.”

The outer Space Treaty (OST) is the founding document of international space law.

It has been ratified by more than 100 countries, including the United States and other leading space powers.

The OTS stipulates that space exploration should be carried out for peaceful purposes only.

Artemis partners will also be required to be completely transparent about their activities, which means publicly disclosing their exploration plans and policies as well as sharing their scientific data.

The Accords also cover space mining, which NASA sees as key to humanity’s exploration efforts over the long haul.

NASA officials said the ability to extract and use resources on the moon, Mars and even asteroids would be critical “to support safe and sustainable space exploration and development”.

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US Airman Who Claimed He Saw Top Secret NASA Photos of Alien Structures on the Moon Dies in Bike Crash

by Emma Parry                    October 17, 2018                    (thesun.co.uk)

 

• In 1965, U.S. Air Force Sergeant Karl Wolfe held a top secret clearance as he was assigned to repair photography equipment for NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Project within the tactical air command at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia.

• In 2001, at the Disclosure Project event at the National Press Club in Washington DC organised by Dr Stephen Greer, Wolfe revealed that back in 1965 when he was working in a NASA photography lab, another airman told him that they had “found a base on the back side of the moon”. The Airman showed him photos of towers, domes and mushroom-shaped structures on the lunar surface that were beamed back from the Lunar Oribiter, prior to the Apollo landings in 1969. Wolfe claimed that NASA was covering up evidence of artificial structures on the dark side of the moon.

• Wolfe became concerned and frightened that he had breached security protocol. “I remember going home and naively thinking that I can’t wait to hear about this on the evening news, and here it is more than 30 years later and I hope to hear about it tonight,” said Wolfe at the press conference. Video of his testimony has been viewed millions of times on the internet.

• Wolfe (74) died in October from injuries sustained when he was hit by a tractor trailer as he was bicycling in Lansing, New York. No charges have been filed against the truck driver. Said fellow Disclosure Project witness, Dan Willis, “He was a very brave man with nothing to gain by giving his testimony other than fulfilling his wish to see it on the evening news as he stated.”

• The shock of Wolfe’s death comes as UFO hunters are still reeling from the death of another legendary whistleblower, retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Robert Dean (89) who also died in October, in Tucson, Arizona. Dean claimed that when he worked for the NATO at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in France during the 1960’s, he read a document entitled “The Assessment” which contained photos of dead aliens, crashed UFOs and reports by military pilots and scientists. The document suggested Earth was being visited by several different ET races. Dean spoke out on numerous radio, TV documentaries and at conferences around the world, and was awarded three lifetime achievement awards for his contribution to the field of ufology.

 

Former US Air Force Sergeant Karl Wolfe, 74, was cycling in Lansing, New York, when he was hit by a tractor trailer.

He was rushed to nearby Cayuga Medical Centre but later died from his injuries.

Cops have launched a probe into his death but no charges have been filed against the driver.

          Karl Wolfe

Wolfe shot to fame in 2001 when he made startling claims that Nasa was covering up evidence of artificial structures on the dark side of the moon.

Sergeant Wolfe had a top secret clearance and worked with the tactical air command at Langley Air Force base in Virginia.

In 1965 he was loaned to the Lunar Orbiter Project run by NASA at Langley Field.

He worked as a precision electronics photograph repair man and was sent to fix a piece of equipment which was “bottle-necking” the production of photographs.

Wolfe was taken to a lab to work on the faulty equipment and noticed there were scientists from all over the world on the project.

Another airman who was in the darkroom told him NASA had “found a base on the back side of the moon”.

          Bob Dean

He then started showing him pictures of towers, domes and mushroom-shaped structures on the lunar surface. The photos were beamed back from the Lunar Oribiter prior to the Apollo landings in 1969.

Wolfe spilled the beans on the incident at the Disclosure Project event at the National Press Club in Washington DC organised by Dr Stephen Greer in 2001.

Video of his testimony has been viewed millions of times on the internet. In it he says: “I was taken into the laboratory where the equipment was malfunctioning. I couldn’t repair it in the dark so I asked to have it removed.

“An airman second class was in the dark room at that time – I was also an airman second class.

“I was interested in how the whole process functioned – how the data got from the lunar orbiter to the laboratory so I asked the young man to explain he process to me. He did.

“About 30 minutes into the process he said to me in a very distressed way, ‘By the way we’ve discovered a base on the backside of the moon’.

“And then he proceeded to put photographs down in front of me and clearly in these photographs were structures, mushroom-shaped buildings, spherical buildings and towers.

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New Study: “Unusual Structures” On Far Side of the Moon Could Have Been Made by Extraterrestrials

by Arjun Walia                September 27, 2017

• The Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) has recently published a report claiming that structures on the far side of the moon may have been built by non-humans.

• Many sources in the past have made similar claims that artificial objects and structures exist on the Moon, including Carl Sagen.

• Mark Carlotto, an expert in digital image processing, discovered an ‘excavated’ entrance to a passageway leading underground on the moon.

• Former NATO Army intelligence analyst, Bob Dean, spoke of the government destroying 40 rolls of Apollo program film of the moon that authorities determined were ‘too socially and politically unacceptable’ for the public to see.

• Former astronaut, Edgar Mitchell, said “there is no doubt that we are being visited”, we have evidence, but it’s been covered up by governments for a long time.

• The Deputy Manager for the Clementine Mission to the Moon in 1994 said that the mission’s purpose was not to find water on the moon, but to track strange objects on the far side of the moon, which they found.

• Dr. Norman Bergrun of the Ames Labs/Lockheed-Martin accused NASA of “garbling” images to hide certain things.

• NASA contractor, Donna Hare, reported that her ‘job’ was to airbrush UFO’s out of moon photographs before public release.

• Having top secret crypto-clearance with the USAF was told about a base on the back of the moon in 1965, including geometric shapes, towers, and radar dishes.

• The SPSR study cites ‘scientific fraud’ stating that the conservative mainstream scientific establishment nevertheless rejects the notion of alien artifacts on the moon because extraterrestrial do not exist, therefore alien artifacts cannot exist on the moon.

 

Members of the Society For Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) have recently published a paper in the Journal of Space Exploration about certain features on the far side of the moon that appear in the crater Paracelsus C. titled “Image Analysis of Unusual Structures on the Far Side of the Moon in the Crater Paracelsus C,” it argues that these features might be artificial in origin, meaning someone other than a human being built them and put them there.

Contrary to popular belief, reports of artificial structures on the moon are both common and persistent. Among the first were from George Leonard’s 1976 book, Somebody Else is on the Moon, and Fred Steckling’s 1981 book, We Discovered Alien Bases on The Moon. There are many more, and from many credible sources, which we will get to later in the article.

During the early years of SETI, in 1963, even Carl Sagan spoke about the possibility of extraterrestrial visitation:

“It is not out of the question that artifacts of these visits still exist, or even that some kind of base is maintained (possibly automatically) within the solar system to provide continuity for successive expeditions. Because of weathering and the possibility of detection and interference by the inhabitants of the Earth, it would be preferable not to erect such a base on the Earth’s surface. The Moon seems one reasonable alternative. Forthcoming high resolution photographic reconnaissance of the Moon from space vehicles – particularly of the back side – might bear these possibilities in mind.”

This new study describes how they discovered seven Apollo-15 and four Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) images of the same enigmatic objects in the moon crater Paracelsus C, and how they differ significantly from the rocks scattered around and within the majority of craters on Luna.

Drawing from multiple images taken at different times of the lunar day, and from different sun angles, the authors point out how it’s possible to predict an approximate shape for the objects by using shape-form-shading software. This type of 3D rendering has allowed them to fly around the site in order to see how odd the objects look in their location within the south-west quadrant of the crater, which is approximately 24km in diameter. The question the scientists now ask is, are these objects artificial? If so, when were they manufactured, and by whom? They emphasize that a rover mission to Paracelsus C would probably provide some very interesting answers.

The study concludes by stating that, “Based on the evidence presented in this paper we believe this area in Paracelsus C is one such candidate that is worthy of future study by orbital missions and surface rovers. Both of the features analyzed in this area are statistically different from the surrounding terrain.”

Carl Sagan argued that deviations like these are a necessary (though insufficient) condition of intelligent activity. What’s also interesting to note about Sagan is that he was accused, by multiple colleagues, of assisting the elite with the extraterrestrial cover-up.

Another great point the authors make deals with scientific fraud, which is something we see today in all realms of research, from health to climate change. The politicization of science is a real problem in the modern day world, and the study authors point out how it is impeding efforts to learn more about outer space:

“A decidedly conservative mainstream scientific establishment often rejects anomalies based on subject matter alone, i.e., there cannot be alien artifacts on the moon because there are no alien artifacts on the moon (or other planets). Such a view is an example of circular reasoning, based on the belief that extraterrestrials do not exist, or if they do exist that they could not have traveled to our solar system.”

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