What Is NASA Hiding?

This week, The National Research Council warned NASA that it’s proposed mission to send manned spacecraft to Mars, in the near future, will fail unless the space agency revamps its methods and conceives of a clear, well-planned strategy to conquer the red planet.

Sounds logical, but wait a minute, something does not add up here. Has it not been 45 years since the Apollo manned mission landed on the moon?

At that time NASA was heavily promoting the lunar colony mission as it’s logical, next step. The public was completely signed on to that grand notion. But a funny thing happened on the way to the moon, actually a string of odd events soon transpired, which NASA has never fully explained.

Without any forewarning the space agency not only scrapped the lunar colony mission, but shortly thereafter the entire manned missions to other planets was also put on the back burner. NASA has hemmed and hawed for decades about their reasons for doing so, none of which has passed the smell test.

Instead they turned to the rather pedestrian Space Shuttle, transport truck basically, and the automated space probe missions, which have ventured all over the solar system. Nothing wrong with the automated probe missions, in fact, many have returned a wealth of scientific data. Their usefulness has been established and will continue.

Nonetheless, here we are five decades later and NASA is just now recycling the idea of manned missions to the planets.  Funny that The National Research Council, in their congressionally-mandated report, said that Washington should use “stepping stones” to achieve its goal of a manned flight to Mars.

The NRC opined that instead of shooting for Mars, NASA ought to first explore a asteroid, build a moon outpost, or engage in more international cooperation with countries like China. Wait a minute. Are we to believe that the brainy space scientists and rocket engineers at NASA could not figure this 3^rd grade strategy out? Was not that the plan 45 years ago? Indeed it was as everyone alive then or anyone that has studied the history of NASA knows. Is it possible that we have been, and are being conned by some very smooth con artists with big university degrees and official titles or what?

Well, the NRC chose China as a potential partner because just recently, NASA pulled the plug on ROSCOSMOS, the Russian space agency. The U.S. decided to terminate its involvement in mutual space research with the Russians over the Ukraine crisis - a cooperative effort that goes back to 1972. Only one problem with that decision, NASA does not have any space vehicles capable of transporting US astronauts to the International Space Station.

Whoops! In what was apparently a surprise to Washington wags Russia retaliated and pulled the plug on NASA, saying that it will not transport any more American astronauts to the ISS. Would it not have been prudent for NASA to have thought that decision through a bit more before cutting off their nose to spite their face?

In fact, these events underscore the history outlined above and it all begs the question of just how NASA ended up with no space vehicles to transport anyone anywhere, let alone outer space. This is starting to look like a complicated shell game.  But rather than go through the torturous twists and turns NASA has taken us through over the last five decades, we shall cut right to the chase with a radical thesis:

NASA has not, and is not, urgently pursuing the manned missions to the moon and beyond, because it lacks the Oxygen and Water producing technologies to keep people alive in space for prolonged periods.

You see the American space agency has concealed the truth and survived largely unscathed because it 1) wrapped itself in the Star Trek mythology throughout the 1960s and beyond 2) sprayed itself with a Teflon coating.

Skeptical observers and critics have never been able to penetrate through these shields because the NASA public relations machine has effectively owned the mass psyche.  We, the naïve science-consuming public, actually assumed that NASA engineers had created a Life Support System that is ready to go on long voyages out there in absolutely, lethal outer space.

Well, if they have, it is nowhere to be found. Keep in mind this fictional Star Trek life support technology has to be failsafe for the life of the mission, which would be many years to Mars and many months to the moon to set up a manned base. One failure of an O2 producing system would result in nearly instantaneous death.

Beyond these core survival issues other equally daunting problems are lurking in the shadows. Ostensibly, our astronauts would be out there for the purpose of mining. How would any ore retrieved be shipped back to Earth? Remember that the very basic, very small Apollo lunar modules had no extra space at all. Every square inch was taken up.

Next, the Apollo missions were massively expensive, any present-day such space flights capable of carrying a large crew, enough to set up a lunar base, would be astronomically so by orders of magnitude. Does NASA know all of this- do bears poop in the woods?

Sorry to be the bubble popper, but there is no Holodeck and no Life Support System and Captain Kirk was issuing orders on a Hollywood Studio lot and the Enterprise never left the ground.

There are actually very good reasons why NASA and the Russian space agency both cooperated back there in the Cold War (oddly enough), and why neither has launched manned missions back to the moon or Mars, yet both keep talking about and delaying such missions indefinitely…

Will Hart is a journalist and author. His magazine credits include Nexus, Wild West, Atlantis Rising, New Dawn, UFO, Nature Photographer and numerous other periodicals. His first book ´The Genesis Race¨ (Inner Traditions) is available on Amazon and his second in the series, ´Cosmic Ancestry´ will be available in June, 2014 also on Amazon.