Neil Armstrong is a personality whose popularity in America is equal to that of Michael Jackson. Still: a man is the first to set foot on the surface of our celestial neighbor, the Moon. This unforgettable event took place, equal in value to the first flight in near-earth orbit of Yuri Gagarin, in 1969. I remember that All-Union Radio then circled the message about the success of the Americans almost as solemnly as the first flights of Soviet cosmonauts. We tried to be objective as best we could …
However, the world followed with delight the historical descent of a man to the moon in live broadcast, while we still got a squeeze, albeit of high, but sorted quality. In our country, the details of the appearance of Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on the lunar surface were not known for the longest time (he was the second, since he was filming the exit of his friend). And practically all over the world, TV viewers have become observers of the "failure" in the program of the "lunar landing" of American astronauts. NASA immediately attributed the lack of sound in the TV coverage to "technical problems" and "atmospheric disturbances of the Earth." For a minute and a half the viewers saw only the "picture", and then the presenters promised to tell about the details in the next report, and at that the live broadcast fell silent for five and a half hours. What was the matter then?
It must be said that the rumor arose immediately, and its content, unlike other rumors, has remained stable to this day. Again - why?..
Let's start with the technique that allegedly failed. Armstrong communicated with the Earth on two radio frequencies: the first - publicly available, purchased by TV companies; the second was a spare (secret) one, through which communication was kept only with the leadership of NASA. Television viewers and radio listeners of the planet heard the astronaut's enthusiastic voice transmitted over the fundamental frequency. And suddenly the voice broke off …
There are enough meticulous clever people in any country. So, both in Australia and European Switzerland, radio amateurs "intercepted" the backup channel, and some even recorded Armstrong's words on a tape recorder. This explains the stability and unambiguity of hearing. Here's what happened. This was stated by Neil himself, who realized (for all his emotionality) to switch to a secret communication channel. He cried out, “Damn it, I would like to know what this is ?! Directly in front of us, on the other side of the crater, sit other spaceships, huge, and watch us."
True, there is a rumor that he shouted the first phrase of these two on the main air … Unfortunately, more than thirty years have passed, and it is extremely difficult to find an eyewitness to the TV report who would confirm that it was so … But the astronaut also uttered the third phrase, shorter than the first two:
"Please give the command to Collens to be ready." Comments are completely unnecessary here. Collens is the third member of the Apollo II crew to remain in the main ship in lunar orbit while the Orion lander landed on the surface.
The management did not forgive Armstrong for an explosion of emotions: the rest of the reports were conducted by Aldrin. He is said to have shot the same 16mm color film that exists only in theory, but which supposedly captures all the nuances that Neil shouted about. And Aldrin replaced Armstrong on the reserve channel: "I see separate blocks that glow from the inside … I see St. Nicholas, gives little light."
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This information should be deciphered as follows: UFO does not show aggressive intentions. The fact is that once McDewitt - remember? - with "Gemini-IV" photographed a UFO over the "Bermuda Triangle", and since then, NASA began to call any UFO by the code "Saint Nicholas".
Faced with the "guests" (or masters?) Of the Moon, the astronauts could not come to the surface for more than five hours and did not receive an appropriate order from the Earth. Finally, Houston (Mission Control Center) gave the necessary command … The rest is known to everyone from the history of astronautics (if you like, astronautics, as it is called in the USA).
Once upon a time, Walter Schirra met a UFO in orbit around the Earth. And McDewitt is the first to photograph an unidentified flying object. But Aldrin also took several pictures before the historic landing of earthlings on the moon! They spotted two UFOs! Photos of UFOs from Apollo 11 were even published …
The UFO was accompanied by another crew - the crew of the Apollo-12 spacecraft. There is an entry about this in the logbook.
The story of Apollo 13 (and the ship's number is not very good), when the enlonauts blew up an oxygen cylinder on board an American ship, which frustrated the experiment with a "small nuclear explosion to study the seismic characteristics of the lunar surface", is widely known. By the way, it is from her that it smells like a badly fabricated legend. This is what NASA never undertakes to refute or comment on. The Pentagon too.
Let's clarify the stages of the flight of the thirteenth Apollo. The ship was launched on April 11, 1970 - 9 years after Gagarin's flight. The first oxygen cylinder exploded at a distance of about 300 thousand kilometers from the Earth. It was still nothing. But it turns out that the second oxygen cylinder (there are only two of them!), Designed for the operation of the cooling system of the mechanisms and compartments of the ship, literally a moment after the explosion of the first one … threw liquid oxygen into space! Houston sounded the alarm: the Mission Control Center immediately realized that the return of the astronauts was in real danger. Some have already predicted death for the astronauts. Their names - Swigert, Lowell and Hayes - were repeated throughout the country. In the USSR, they saw a real opportunity to help dying people only to immediately send Soyuz to the rescue (its start could have been accelerated: we are not Americans,accustomed to working in an emergency mode). True, NASA has not yet reached the concrete proposals, but this desire alone became a very definite reason for the soon to come a relaxation of tension in relations between the two countries.
But even when oxygen was practically at zero, the astronauts themselves did not fully realize the threat hanging over them. They continued the program, although some systems had already stopped working and some had been shut down by people. In this regard, even food could not be stored: many of them were frozen. The lunar module "Orion" remained, which had its own, autonomous, but very small supply of oxygen. True, the lunar module is designed for only two people, but … The astronauts moved into it. The temperature of the module rose sharply, since the cooling system of the device for the third was not designed. The astronauts stopped drinking water so as not to take it away from the cooling system. For some unknown reason (probably, this circumstance will not be clarified), the temperature in the module, on the contrary, suddenly began to fall!The astronauts had to don double suits and space shoes. The temperature was approaching zero, steam began to appear in the cabin, and after a while a damp misty suspension was formed. In addition, there was already a surplus of carbon dioxide in the air: three were breathing!.. They moved and reinstalled several additional air filters, removing them in the command module cockpit.
For four days the astronauts worked on one single task: to survive in the lunar distances from the Earth. There could not have been an automatic descent to Earth either: the command compartment systems did not work, and the Apollo had to be landed manually. From Houston, they were given a complex landing program, where several hundred operations required for this were recorded. The astronauts recorded everything. And to carry out the landing, we again moved to the command module, which practically ceased to operate …
They were saved by well-coordinated and precise work to fulfill the prescriptions born on Earth. They splashed down 5 kilometers from the search engines … Until now, the story of Apollo 13 is called a miracle by many … No one from this group has ever flown into space again.
And the last of the "Apollo" - the ship numbered 16 - failed to perform a simple operation to separate the Orion module from the ship, which was supposed to fall on the moon according to the programmed mission and collapse from impact on the planet's surface. As a result, the descent module became an artificial satellite of the Moon for a long time. It is said that Young forgot to press the accelerator button.
The last circumstance is very interesting. What do you mean "forgot"? The fact is that there were only two buttons that Young had to press: a separator and an accelerator. I have not forgotten the first, but the second …
Other phenomena, mainly light, were noticed or observed in detail by other crews. Sirnan, who flew around the far side of the moon at low altitude, said that "they sit there like bees in a honeycomb."
Ufologists believe that the moon is a transit base for enlonauts. Or, perhaps, a kind of "Luna-sorting", as it is customary to call our earthly railway stations, which are used for reloading and receiving goods, forming trains.
Thus, the curtailment of the Soviet lunar program and the limitation of flights only to space stations in the light of dubious flight safety seems to us justified. To the whole world, the Soviet "Lunokhod-1" seemed to be a kind of "step back" in space exploration. As time has shown, it is not safe for spacecraft on the Moon: the first "bug" crawled on the surface for six months, and the second stumbled, one might say, out of the blue!.. Even more incomprehensible was the further rejection of this method of research altogether. What is behind this decision? Maybe someone's specific threat? We do not know this.
However, soon the Americans stopped flights to the moon, although they seemed to be not far from the construction of a lunar town and a lunar spaceport …
Incomprehensible things are happening with the spacecraft launched to Mars. The accuracy of the launch and the possibility of adjusting the direction of flight now seem to be things for granted. However, one station after another pass at an unthinkable distance from the destination, in another case - just before the most crucial moment (reaching the planet) - all of a sudden the connection disappears forever … The Americans also felt this in their expeditions to Mars and Venus.
Something became clear after the revelations of former NASA workers - the famous space designer Maurice Chatelain, as well as academician Berger and professor Vallee … The first published the book "Our ancestors who arrived from space", and the professor and academician - "The Book of Mysteries" …
At one time there were theories (a significant part of which was sucked from the finger) that lunar craters are former cities and other artificial structures. We will not dwell on them, but the authoritative statement of the famous astronomer Sagan, made by him in the early 60s, is worth mentioning. The scientist believed that the cavities found under the surface of the Moon, one of which is 100 cubic kilometers (!), Are quite suitable for the existence and development of biological species.
In 1963, American astronomers discovered gigantic luminous and moving objects on the Moon, the dimensions of which are impressive: 5 kilometers long, 300 meters wide. Flagstaff Observatory recorded 31 such objects! And lots of smaller objects.
However, back in 1968 (before the Apollo II flight), NASA itself published a handbook of lunar anomalies, where giant domes, craters, walls, trenches, moving geometric figures of various "colors" and so on are mentioned, as if by themselves. Further. In total, 579 unexplained observations are named, an analysis of four centuries of work with the Moon by scientists and amateurs. Geometric figures were mentioned by the British astronomer Birt in 1871 in his own catalog of the mysteries of the moon.
Thus, after Neil Armstrong's memorable "small step", the Moon has become not closer to us, but much further away.
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