Giant Door Into Moon Seen Open During Apollo 8 Flight, May 2016 (Video)

Nor do you have evidence that it is a door. Speculation the lot of it, poorly thought speculation at that.

Ah Jeffy

Proof that it’s not a door could also be the fact that someone at NASA had to find this 60 year old image, scan it, and make it publicly available.

They tend to not do that with things they don’t want us to see.

But let’s do real research, since the people that post articles here are too lazy:

This image comes courtesy of The Apollo 8 Flight Journal, available here http://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/

Now, this journal provides step by step transcripts of the mission along with pictures. It also provides a Photography Index, for those of us just interested in photos, here: http://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/photoindex.htm

Now based on the file name provided, we know that the images we want are on 70-mm magazine G – AS08-18-2828 to 2908, available here http://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/photo18-g.htm

Now when we visit this page, we see a note about the images: “Note. This film was rated at 2000 ASA prior to flight and intended for taking photographs of astronomical phenomenon. Instead it was inadvertently used to photograph the Moon with a sensitivity of between 40 and 80 ASA assummed. The error was noted by the crew soon after the first 17 shots had been taken during the second orbit. With prior knowledge of the situation on Earth, the development chemistry was modified and usable, though grainy images were obtained. See 071:10:35 and 074:42:05.”

Those two time stamps provide links for more details, since image 2908 is from the end of the last batch, we’re interested in 074:42:05, let’s go there for a summary of what this mistake meant for this film, http://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/13day4_orbits123.htm#0744205

“From the 1969 Mission Report – “The film was not used for the dim light astronomical experiments, as planned, but for general lunar surface photography, and a film speed of 80 was erroneously assumed, rather than the actual 2000. This difference is about a six-stop overexposure and far beyond the latitude of the film. A special chemistry and processing technique was formulated to preserve the recorded data, but it was discovered that the chemistry could not be changed fast enough to prevent the image from chemically destroying itself. A procedure was developed to use special film reels in a large tank. The process was accomplished at 68°F [20°C], including a bleach step to remove the effect of the vastly overexposed silver and produce a more normal negative. The technique proved highly successful and satisfactory images were obtained. The wide-latitude processing could significantly reduce workload on future flight crews by permitting more nearly constant exposure settings.”

So in a nut shell, these images are from a damaged set of film, and had to be recovered using a technique developed because this happened. But not until after it was determined that the film was chemically destroying itself, this last image, and as a result, most likely the last to be recovered, shows evidence of damaged film.

DEAR BIN CONTRIBUTORS; This research took less then a half hour. If you don’t care enough about what you’re posting to do your own research, don’t bother posting!