Since its establishment in 2002 the Space X corporation has
dreamed big. It is not the first and only astronautics operator in the private
sector, but it is definitely the most radical and ambitious. It has gained many
contracts to service and supply the International Space Station, but its
founder, Elon Musk, is focused on a more distant horizon. Musk has come up on
HPANWO before when a driverless car from his Tesla Motors company crashed and
killed somebody, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/man-killed-in-driverless-car-crash.html.
The South African engineer and entrepreneur is a visionary and an idealist and
wants to do more than just send rockets full of cargo a couple of hundred miles
up. He has revolutionized space transport by building a reusable rocket stage
than can return to earth and land vertically on its launch pad, thus greatly
reducing the budget of rocket flights. However even that hasn't sated his
thirst for innovation. His next project is for interplanetary missions, the
first private aerospace outfit to do so, and he's certainly not doing it by
halves. Space X has announced a plan to send a rocket to Mars by 2022 followed
soon after by the first manned mission (I refuse to use the politically correct
neologism "crewed"). If they accomplish this then they'll have beaten
traditional state agencies like NASA. However before even that they have
another plan, the most revolutionary act of space tourism in history. Space X
has declared that they will be sending two people to the moon by late next
year.
Since NASA's Apollo missions between 1968 and 1972 that sent
men to the moon... supposedly, no astronaut has flown beyond low earth orbit,
or so we've been told. All the world's major space agencies have theoretical
plans to return to the moon, but none of these have ever been realized. It is
therefore astounding to think two people might be sent back there within
twenty-four months. This will be a commercial flight and the two passengers are
private citizens, obviously rich ones, paying for their trip themselves. So far
they have not been named. They will be trained and assessed for fitness like
any other astronaut; and then they will board a capsule at the launch site and
take the rocket into space and out of earth orbit. The craft will then circle
the moon and return to earth, see: http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year.
Should this mission go ahead it will raise some obvious questions about the
reality of the Apollo moon programme. As I've explained before, see the
background links below, I am virtually certain that the moon landings were
faked, but if Space X does what it says it's going to do, it will prove that
manned moon missions are in fact
possible with publicly-available technology. Will this then cast doubt on the
impossibility of Apollo? Definitely. Alternatively Space X might encounter the
same obstacles as NASA, radiation, engineering problems etc, in which case it
will have the option either to cancel the project or fake it like NASA did
fifty years earlier. It is unlikely Space X would fake anything because there
is no political motive to do so, unlike the 1960's during the Cold War and
space race. My guess is that they will just let the matter slip away and hope
people forget about it. If Space X somehow manages to send a chemical rocket
the quarter of a million miles to the earth's natural satellite then one of the
first places of which this intrepid pair of lunar tourists will want to take
holiday snaps is the Apollo landing sites. If they train their cameras on the
locations and see only rocks and dust, how will the authorities handle it? They
will probably swear the two crew members to secrecy, or else arrange an
"accident" for them on the return journey; or soon after landing. However
it gets worse. There is far more than just absent LM descent stages that the
tourists will encounter that the government will want to keep quiet; UFO's and the
secret bases on the moon etc. No matter what precautions the keepers on these
secrets take, the rise of space tourism is going to make celestial
confidentiality far more difficult to maintain. Perhaps this democratization of
space exploration will be the very catalyst necessary for UFO Disclosure, the
revelation of the truth behind the moon landings and the end of the New World
Order.
See here for
background: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/kubricks-daughter-on-moon-landings.html.
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