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General Discussion / Re: NASA is lying for Trump
« Last post by LunarOrbit 🇨🇦 on March 26, 2025, 12:57:37 PM »She was formerly the press secretary for Sen. Ted Cruz.
Ol' Lying Ted. That explains a lot.
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Ol' Lying Ted. That explains a lot.
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General Discussion / Re: NASA is lying for Trump
« Last post by JayUtah on March 26, 2025, 12:51:36 PM »Bethany Stevens took over as NASA press secretary on 10 March 2025. She was formerly the press secretary for Sen. Ted Cruz.
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General Discussion / NASA is lying for Trump
« Last post by LunarOrbit 🇨🇦 on March 26, 2025, 11:33:20 AM »NASA is now shamefully lying for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nasa-reveals-astronauts-return-would-not-have-happened-without-trumps-intervention
To be clear, the decision to make Butch and Suni a part of Crew 9 and return them in February or March of 2025 was made last year, before Trump was re-elected, because it was the most practical option. There was no political advantage for Joe Biden or Kamala Harris to delay their return... it would have been far more advantageous for them to move heaven and Earth to return them sooner.
Making Butch and Suni part of Crew 9 was a smart, efficient, and fiscally responsible decision... something that you would think Elon Musk, head of DOGE, would appreciate.
The whole idea that the astronauts were trapped at the ISS for political reasons is utter nonsense. It is just an example of how people fluff Trump's ego, and it is a really damaging move by NASA who has already had to defend their credibility for decades over stupid conspiracy theories.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nasa-reveals-astronauts-return-would-not-have-happened-without-trumps-intervention
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NASA spokeswoman Bethany Stevens credited President Donald Trump for securing the return of two astronauts stranded for more than nine months on the International Space Station.
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"This is a huge win for the Trump administration. And it would not have happened without President Trump's intervention." Stevens said.
To be clear, the decision to make Butch and Suni a part of Crew 9 and return them in February or March of 2025 was made last year, before Trump was re-elected, because it was the most practical option. There was no political advantage for Joe Biden or Kamala Harris to delay their return... it would have been far more advantageous for them to move heaven and Earth to return them sooner.
Making Butch and Suni part of Crew 9 was a smart, efficient, and fiscally responsible decision... something that you would think Elon Musk, head of DOGE, would appreciate.
The whole idea that the astronauts were trapped at the ISS for political reasons is utter nonsense. It is just an example of how people fluff Trump's ego, and it is a really damaging move by NASA who has already had to defend their credibility for decades over stupid conspiracy theories.
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The Reality of Apollo / Re: Chandrayaan-2 views Apollo
« Last post by onebigmonkey on March 25, 2025, 09:42:32 AM »Same view from the aft camera. As with the nadir view I did some HDR toning to bring out detail, but it's easily seen without it. The map viewer for Chandrayaan didn't update until today, so I missed the second view (I used the shape files in Google Moon, which aren't perfect).
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The Reality of Apollo / Re: Chandrayaan-2 views Apollo
« Last post by Obviousman on March 24, 2025, 07:05:00 PM »From a batch of files released over the weekend, Chandrayaan 2's nadir TMC sees Apollo 11, as imaged on February 7 this year.Obviously faked. They put a mock lander on the Moon where the 'real' one is supposed to be, just in case anyone tried to come along and take photos.
(VTIC)
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The Reality of Apollo / Re: Chandrayaan-2 views Apollo
« Last post by onebigmonkey on March 24, 2025, 01:45:59 PM »From a batch of files released over the weekend, Chandrayaan 2's nadir TMC sees Apollo 11, as imaged on February 7 this year.
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The Hoax Theory / Re: Gene Gilmore
« Last post by onebigmonkey on March 22, 2025, 03:27:39 AM »I've tweaked the text about Antarctica 
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The Hoax Theory / Re: Gene Gilmore
« Last post by onebigmonkey on March 21, 2025, 01:55:29 PM »It's a while now since I wrote that page, and I can't say for certain where I got that idea from - I'm happy to correct the page if he never collected any meteorites at all!
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The Hoax Theory / Re: Gene Gilmore
« Last post by JayUtah on March 21, 2025, 11:09:31 AM »None of the records I have seen of Wernher von Braun's trip to Antarctica mentions the search for or recovery of meteorites. That absence is highly conspicuous, because prior to 1969 the discovery of a meteorite of any origin in Antarctica was an incredibly rare event. Between 1911 and 1969 only four meteorites had been found in Antartica, and none of them were of lunar origin. Had Von Braun found one on his trip, it would have been a herald event in the international scientific community. The first meteorites of lunar origin were discovered in the 1970s but recognized as lunites only in the 1980s when they were compared to Apollo anorthosite specimens.
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The Hoax Theory / Re: Gene Gilmore
« Last post by Kiwi on March 21, 2025, 05:50:20 AM »Onebigmonkey has posted an excellent analysis of this 'claim' - https://onebigmonkey.com/itburns/bartbs/bartsbull.html
Onbigmonkey certainly has done a great analysis. A fair way down, he says this:
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Yes, von Braun went to Antarctica. Yes, he collected some meteorites. But see if you can guess how they know now that they are lunar in origin.
I have done a fair bit of study of von Braun's trip to Antarctica, but I can't find here in New Zealand the same sort of stuff that would be available in the U.S., so I have never seen anything about him collecting meteorites of any type while there. As far as I can tell, he never went anywhere near the areas where lunar meteorites were later found.
Does anyone know anything about von Braun collect any meteorites in Antarctica and, if so, what information is available?