CHAPTER 1-S6 - BLACK OPS on the MOON & MARS

I am going to present the Apollo missions in the order they took place, 8 through 17. Originally I was going to start with Apollo 11. This is the mission that received the most publicity. And this is the one where a lot of commotion was created by the Luna 15 space craft. But what is interesting is that no such commotion was generated during any of the other Apollo flights, even though there were other situations that were just as hazardous.

What most people find hard to believe is that the US government uses propaganda and misinformation as much or more then any other country.

DOD/NASA claimed that the Soviet space program was a "closed" program, and it was. But they also claim the US space program was an "open" program which it wasn't. The DOD/NASA attempt to show the world that a free country would have an open program with the whole world watching their every move, a program that was truly transparent, was pure propaganda. Yes, the US space program was more open then the secret one, but it was not as "open" as you might think.

Every bit of information, writings, movies, sound tapes, etc. went through the US propaganda minister called the PIO, (Public Information Officer). Who was over the Public Affairs Office (PAO). Every DOD/NASA and subcontractor employee, was given documents and/or lectures telling them about this subject, and that anything given to the public had to have prior approval from the PAO. ALL information coming from DOD/NASA was tightly controlled.

Most of the internal documents were classified or restricted to "internal use only."

By the US making this claim they were now "caught between a rock and a hard spot," so to speak. That is because they now had to give the public some kind of information about every part of each mission. And the missions were military missions so what were they to do? The solution by DOD/NASA was that they had to fabricate out of thin air or modify completely a lot of the information given to the public. Once DOD/NASA admitted that they falsified information, and they have, the question then becomes, just to what extent was information falsified? How far would they go to falsify information and to try and show the world that the Apollo missions were real and happened just as they told you they did?

By being "open" they not only had to deceive the Soviets, but in doing that they had to deceive the US citizens, and the whole world as well. The fake and false information given to the public about the Apollo missions was the biggest hoax in the history of the world! Apollo was a show on a grand scale, the greatest show in history.

Each Apollo mission was a carefully scripted show, completely thought out and produced well in advance of each mission. I am speaking about the parts given to the public. When most people thought they were watching "live" shows, it was not "live" at all. After each mission some things had to be changed so the astronauts had to be "debriefed," behind closed doors. All of these true debriefing tapes and documents are still classified.

Apollo 8:

Mission Summary

(Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA)

Analysis

When you look at the timeline table, you will find that when the Apollo 8 mission blasted off on December 21, 1968 there were already 10 known spacecraft orbiting the Moon in selenocentric orbit. There was also 21 objects in highly eccentric cislunar orbit, that might take the object near the Apollo 8 spacecraft. and last there were 7 objects in an unknown orbit. The above only includes objects in the registries.

So what do we know about these 38 objects? Let's look at the 10 known objects that were in Lunar orbit during the time of the apollo 8 mission.

Name of Object

What was known about the spacecraft.

Luna 10

Mission Profile:

Luna 10 was launched on 31 March 1966 at 10:48 UT. It was injected into a 200 x 250 km, 52 degree Earth orbit and launched towards the Moon from its Earth orbiting platform. Following a mid-course correction on 1 April, Luna 10 turned around at a distance of 8000 km from the Moon and fired its rockets, slowing by 0.64 km/sec. It entered lunar orbit at 18:44 UT on 3 April 1966 and separated from the bus 20 seconds later. The initial orbit was 349 x 1015 km with a period of 2 hours 58 minutes and an inclination of 71.9 degrees. It completed its first orbit on April 4, Moscow time. The data returned showed a weak to non-existent magnetic field, cosmic radiation of 5 particles/cm2/sec, 198 micrometeoroid impacts, no discernable atmosphere, and anomalous mass concentrations (mascons) in certain areas at and below the lunar surface. The gamma-ray spectrometer gave compositional information on the Moon's surface, showing it to be similar to terrestrial basalt. Luna 10 operated for 56 days, covering 460 lunar orbits and 219 active data transmissions before the batteries were depleted and radio signals were discontinued on May 30, 1966. The orbit at that time was 378 x 985 km with an inclination of 72.2 degrees.

Trajectory Details as of the time of this writing.
Type: Orbiter
Central Body: Moon
Epoch start: 1966-04-03 18:44:00 UTC
Epoch stop: 1966-06-09 00:00:00 UTC
Orbital Parameters

Periapsis Apoapsis Period Inclination Eccentricity

1.2 null 1.58 null 178.05 minutes 21.9° 0.14

(Courtesy DOD/NASA/NSSDC)

Luna 10
Retro Rocket

Luna 11

Mission Profile:
Luna 11 was launched towards the Moon from an earth-orbiting platform and entered lunar orbit on August 28, 1966. The objectives of the mission included the study of: (1) lunar gamma- and X-ray emissions in order to determine the Moon's chemical composition; (2) lunar gravitational anomalies; (3) the concentration of meteorite streams near the Moon; and, (4) the intensity of hard corpuscular radiation near the Moon. A total of 137 radio transmissions and 277 orbits of the Moon were completed before the batteries failed on October 1, 1966.

Trajectory Details as of the time of this writing.
Type: Orbiter
Central Body: Moon
Epoch start: 1966-08-18 00:00:00 UTC
Epoch stop: 1966-10-01 00:00:00 UTC
Orbital Parameters

Periapsis	Apoapsis	Period	Inclination	Eccentricity
1.09 RL	1.69 RL	178.0 minutes	27.0°	0.22

(Courtesy DOD/NASA/NSSDC)

Luna 12

Mission Profile:
Luna 12 was launched towards the Moon from an earth-orbiting platform and achieved lunar orbit on October 25, 1966. The spacecraft was equipped with a television system that obtained and transmitted photographs of the lunar surface. The photographs contained 1100 scan lines with a maximum resolution of 14.9--19.8 m. Pictures of the lunar surface were returned on October 27, 1966. The number of photographs is not known. Radio transmissions from Luna 12 ceased on January 19, 1967, after 602 lunar orbits and 302 radio transmissions.

Trajectory Details as of the time of this writing.
Type: Orbiter
Central Body: Moon
Epoch start: 1966-10-26 09:00:00 UTC
Epoch stop: 1967-01-19 00:00:00 UTC
Orbital Parameters

Periapsis	Apoapsis	Period	Inclination	Eccentricity
1.09 RL	2.0 RL	205.0 minutes	4.0°	0.31

(Courtesy DOD/NASA/NSSDC)

Luna 14

Mission Profile:
The Luna 14 spacecraft entered a 160 x 870 km lunar orbit with an inclination of 42 degrees at 19:25 UT on April 10, 1968. The spacecraft is believed to have been similar to Luna 12 and the instrumentation was similar to that carried by Luna 10. It provided data for studies of the interaction of the earth and lunar masses, the lunar gravitational field, the propagation and stability of radio communications to the spacecraft at different orbital positions, solar charged particles and cosmic rays, and the motion of the Moon. This flight was the final flight of the second generation of the Luna series.

Trajectory Details as of the time of this writing.
Type: Orbiter
Central Body: Moon
Epoh start: 1968-04-10 00:00:00 UTC
Orbital Parameters

Periapsis	Apoapsis	Period	Inclination	Eccentricity
1.09 RL	1.5 RL	160.0 minutes	42.0°	0.16

(Courtesy DOD/NASA/NSSDC)

Now what does the United Nations have in their registry? They show Luna 10, 11, 12, and 14 are still in Lunar orbit, according to the documents submitted by the USSR.

Explorer 33

Mission Profile:
Explorer 33 was a spin-stabilized (spin axis parallel to the ecliptic plane, spin period varying between 2.2 and 3.6 s) spacecraft instrumented for studies of interplanetary plasma, energetic charged particles (electrons, protons, and alphas), magnetic fields, and solar X rays at lunar distances. The spacecraft failed to achieve lunar orbit but did achieve mission objectives. The initial apogee occurred at about 1600 h local time. Over the first 3-yr period, perigee varied between 6 and 44 earth radii. Apogee varied between 70 and 135 earth radii, and the inclination with respect to the equator of the earth varied between 7 and 60 deg. Periods of principal data coverage (essentially 100%) are July 1, 1966 (launch), to January 14, 1970; February 21, 1970, to March 6, 1970; July 31, 1970, to September 14, 1970; January 15, 1971, to February 28, 1971; March 23, 1971, to May 31, 1971; and August 23, 1971, to September 15, 1971. No data were obtained after September 21, 1971.
Trajectory Details as of the time of this writing.
Type: Orbiter
Central Body: Earth
Epoch start: 1966-07-01 16:04:00 UTC
Orbital Parameters

Periapsis Apoapsis Period Inclination Eccentricity

265680.0 480763.0 38792.0 min 24.4° 0.283299

(Courtesy DOD/NASA/NSSDC)

Explorer 33
Delta 3rd Stage

Lunar Orbiter 4

Mission Profile:
The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into an elliptical near polar high lunar orbit for data acquisition. The orbit was 2706 km x 6111 km with an inclination of 85.5 degrees and a period of 12 hours.
The spacecraft acquired photographic data from May 11 to 26, 1967, and readout occurred through June 1, 1967. The orbit was then lowered to gather orbital data for the upcoming Lunar Orbiter 5 mission.
The spacecraft was used for tracking purposes until it impacted the lunar surface due to the natural decay of the orbit no later than October 31, 1967, between 22--30 degrees W longitude.
The Lunar Orbiters were all eventually commanded to crash on the Moon before their attitude control gas ran out so they would not present navigational or communications hazards to later Apollo flights.

Trajectory Details as of the time of this writing.
Type: Orbiter
Central Body: Moon
Epoch start: 1967-05-08 00:00:00 UTC
Epoch stop: 1967-10-06 00:00:00 UTC
Orbital Parameters

Periapsis Apoapsis Period Inclination Eccentricity

2.56 RL 4.52 RL 721.0 min 85.5° 0.28

(Courtesy DOD/NASA/NSSDC)

(Courtesy DOD/NASA/NSSDC)

It can not be stressed enough what this means, that comment on this DOD/NASA/NSSDC web site. Especially when seen in the light of the other quotes as documented on this web site. How many spacecraft were in operation around the Moon during any Apollo flight? How many spacecraft and their parts were in orbit either around the Moon or in an Earth/Moon elliptical orbit?

According to the concept as put forth here on their web site any spacecraft in Lunar orbit, working or not, would present a hazard to any of the Apollo missions. If they were working they would then present two hazards, both navigational and for communications. If they were not working they would be a navigational hazard, in plain English, it might crash into the Apollo spacecraft. See also the comments concerning Apollo 11 and Luna 15, and the comments below about Apollo 16.

5.5 PARTICLES AND FIELDS SUBSATELLITE EXPERIMENTS
The subsatellite was launched on the dark side of the moon about one hour after lunar module jettison during the 62nd revolution (April 24, 21:56:09 GMT). An orbit-shaping maneuver was to have been performed prior to launching of the subsatellite to obtain the desired lifetime of one year. However, the maneuver was not performed because of the decision to limit the use of the service propulsion system to the transearth injection maneuver as a result of the engine gimbal actuator control problem (discussed in section 6.6). Consequently, the planned orbit was not obtained. The initial orbital parameters, as compared to the Apollo 15 parameters, were as follows :

It was not possible to activate the subsatellite for about 20 hours after launch because of communications frequency interference resulting from the failure of the lunar module ascent stage to deorbit.At the time of launch, the subsatellite was in the magnetosheath heading toward the magnetopause and geomagnetic tail. The delay in activation had no detrimental effect on the subsatellite systems.

The subsatellite is calculated to have impacted the far side of the moon (110 degrees east longitude) during revolution 425 on May 29, 1972. The last telemetry data were received at 2031 GMT, coinciding with loss of signal. The signal should have been reacquired at 2200 GMT, but was not.

The physical cause for the short orbital life appears to be the lunar mass concentrations on the front and far sides located relatively near the subsatellite ground track.
(Declassified Apollo 16 Mission Report) (Courtesy DOD/NASA/NSSDC)

Other DOD/NASA documents say that Lunar Orbiter 4 crashed on October 6, 1967 after being moved closer to the Moon and losing contact with it on July 17, 1967. How could it crash just two months after losing contact with it, from natural gravitational causes? Now compare the above statement with the info on the Lunar Explorer 35. Below is the information from DOD/NASA on their own web site showing that this spacecraft, Explorer 35, is still in orbit today. Also notice that it was launched on July 19, 1967, and after successful operation for 6 years, the spacecraft was turned off on June 24, 1973 which means that it was in Lunar orbit and in operation around the Moon during every Apollo flight from 8 through 17, because Apollo 17 was launched on December 7, 1972.

Now why would the 5 Lunar Orbiters pose such a hazard to the Apollo missions but other spacecraft wouldn't? One answer might be the differences in the orbits. but even though Explorer 35 was originally placed in a high elliptical moon orbit, (down to only about 2500 km), DOD/NASA continued to lower it's orbit till it came within a few hundred kilometers of the Moon's surface, with a period of less then 11 hours. That means that at least twice a day Explorer 35 came near the orbits of every one of the Apollo missions.

Lunar Explorer 35

Mission Profile:
Explorer 35 was a spin-stabilized spacecraft instrumented for interplanetary studies, at lunar distances, of the interplanetary plasma, magnetic field, energetic particles, and solar X rays. It was launched into an elliptical lunar orbit. The spin axis direction was nearly perpendicular to the ecliptic plane, and the spin rate was 25.6 rpm. Mission objectives were achieved. After successful operation for 6 years, the spacecraft was turned off on June 24, 1973.

Trajectory Details as of the time of this writing.
No description available.
Orbital Parameters
No description available.

Periapsis Apoapsis Period Inclination Eccentricity

(Courtesy DOD/NASA/NSSDC)

Lunar Explorer 35
Retro Rocket

(As of this writing the official DOD/NASA
web site shows these four spacecraft still in lunar orbit)
(Courtesy DOD/NASA)

Just to give you an easier way to see whether the orbits of these 10 spacecraft would come anywhere near the Apollo missions a table has been created below showing the distances from the Moon of each one. Using this table you can clearly see that everyone of these craft could come into contact with each other. How often they might come into the same area around the Moon depends on many things, and it is not within the scope of this book to detail the actual path of each item during every minute of each Apollo mission. What this chapter is about is the total silence concerning these objects during every Apollo mission.

	Luna 10	378 x 985 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Luna 10 Retro Rocket	350 x 1,000 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Luna 11	378 x 985 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Luna 12	133 x 1,200 - kilometer lunar orbit.
	Luna 14	160 x 870 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Explorer 33	30,550 x 449,174 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Explorer 33 Delta 3rd Stage	30,550 x 449,174 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Lunar Explorer 35	400 x 7,692 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Lunar Explorer 35 Retro Rocket	400 x 7,692 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Lunar Orbiter 4	196 x 6,040 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Apollo 8	60 x 169 - nautical miles lunar orbit 111.1 x 313 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Apollo 10	60 x 171 - nautical miles lunar orbit 111.1 x 316.7 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Apollo 11	61 x 170 - nautical miles lunar orbit 113 x 314.8 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Apollo 12	63 x 169 - nautical miles lunar orbit 116.7 x 313 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Apollo 13	0 x 416 - nautical miles lunar orbit 0 x 770.4 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Apollo 14	59 x 169 - nautical miles lunar orbit 109 x 313 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Apollo 15	58 x 170 - nautical miles lunar orbit 107.4 x 314.8 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Apollo 16	58 x 170 - nautical miles lunar orbit 107.4 x 314.8 - kilometer lunar orbit
	Apollo 17	53 x 170 - nautical miles lunar orbit 98.2 x 314.8 - kilometer lunar orbit
		All Apollo data is from Mission Reports (Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA/NSSDC)

What other records do we have about the Apollo 8 mission that we can look at that will give us any information about these objects and the crew? The next document will be the Transcription of the Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transmission (GOSS NET 1) from the Apollo 8 mission. (Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA). A word search of this 756 page tome for the following words, orbit, luna, delta, explorer, ufo, russia, ussr, orbiter, resulted in no hits relating to any other craft. The word "soviet" resulted in this hit, "In Moscow, Soviet scientist Anatoly Besaranov recalled his country and the United States had shared space knowledge before and predicted the Apollo 8 flight would lead to more cooperation." Nothing about any other spacecraft or objects anywhere.

Spacecraft separation after Translunar Injection (TLI) was nominal. The Launch vehicle attitude errors were less than 20.1 degree during the separation maneuver. The Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA) panels were retracted and jettisoned from the launch vehicle on this flight and therefore caused no problems during separation.
(Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA)

APOLLO 8 classified SIGHTINGS During the translunar trajectory, the command and service module (CSM), the four quadrant panels for the spacecraft lunar-module adapter SLA, and the Saturn IVB (S-IVB) booster rocket created "A spectacular array of flashing objects. No one sighted the CSM in lunar orbit, but the weather was generally bad. On the return transearth trajectory, the brightness of the CSM again was significant. A record of the tracking success is shown in table 3-V111.

On December 21, the observatories undoubtedly detected some panels, as well as the CSM and S-IVB. The S-IVB was kept in inertial hold,so that its brightness should have been fairly dim and steady. The CSM attitude changed slowly, so that its diffuse component changed slowly and any bright flashes would be widely spaced. The four SLA panels were blown off in opposite directions and tumbled wildly, which may account for most of the bright flashing sources. The bright cloud which was observed at 17:30 GMT was produced by venting of the S-IVB. On December 26, several tests were made.

ANALYSIS OF APOLLO 8 PHOTOGRAPHY AND VISUAL OBSERVATIONS UNCONFIRMED INTERPRETATION
(Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA)

Apollo 10:

Mission Summary

(Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA)

Analysis

When you look at the timeline table, you will find that when the Apollo 10 mission blasted off on May 18, 1969 there was already 10 known spacecraft orbiting the Moon in selenocentric orbit. There was also 21 objects in highly eccentric cislunar orbit, that might take the object near the Apollo 10 spacecraft. and last there were 7 objects in an unknown orbit. The above only includes objects in the registries. See previous missions for additional comments.

The only difference between the Apollo 10 and the Apollo 8 missions concerning hazards was that they stayed a little longer in lunar orbit, and there were the 4 SLA panels floating in Earth/Moon orbit from Apollo 8. And the fact they left the LM decent module in Moon orbit. So what can we find out about this spacecraft?

So first let’s look at just the records concerning one object, the Apollo 10, Lm 4 Descent Stage, International Designator, 1969-043 C.

We will start the analysis with the “Apollo 10 Lunar Module On Board Voice Transcription” a document dated June 1969 that was a group 4 classified document, now declassified. This 264 page transcript was created from the sounds originally recorded on the Lunar Module onboard recorder data storage equipment.

“After the multiplexed voice communications and mission elapsed time had been recorded onboard the LM on a single track of the tape, the tape cassettes were transferred to the command module for the return to earth. The cassettes were forwarded to DOD/NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, where mission elapsed time was converted to ground elapsed time for this document. The Apollo l0 lunar-orbital mission was flown May 18 to May 26, 1969. The command and service module (CSM) was code named "Charlie Brown," and the lunar module was called "Snoopy." (From the document)

This is the classification stamp on the cover of the document.

Right off the bat a bunch of red flags goes off concerning just this small amount of information. IF this is a CIVILIAN & SCIENTIFIC and not a MILITARY program as we are supposed to believe to this day then why were most of the original technical documents classified, including this one? How could a transcript of the voice recordings of the astronauts in orbit around the Moon have any information, “affecting the National Defense of the

United States

?” Read this document then tell me why this was classified. Apollo 10 was a scientific dry run for the Apollo 11 mission right? You could tell me that most of the Apollo project was to be kept secret but that statement flies in the face of everything the world was being told about our space program and how open it was and that everyone was being told and shown everything about it. Remember we were the good guys with an open and free society and we were “fighting” the bad guys with a closed and oppressive communist society. But I guess we weren't’t as open as everyone thought. We were just told the propaganda they wanted us to hear.

Also did you know the “Apollo 10 Lunar Module On Board Voice Recorder” the device that recorded the voices for the “Apollo 10 Lunar Module On Board Voice Transcription” document, according to one OFFICIAL NASA publication did not even exist? And did you know there were two different classified APOLLO 10 MISSION REPORTS? They are the “APOLLO 10 MISSION REPORT MSC-00126” one has 323 pages and one has 386 pages the charts are different and one has many blank pages. Most of the ones you will see if you go looking for this document is the one with 323 pages. But what is interesting is that both copies of this Mission Report have the following three paragraphs. Also note the statement on the cover that the document it is for internal distribution only. So many documents concerning the Apollo project were classified that whenever someone noticed this statement on a document they automatically considered it as classified, even if it did not have a classified stamp on it.

“APOLLO 10 MISSION REPORT MSC-00126

DISTRIBUTION AND REFERENCING

This paper is not suitable for general distribution or referencing. It may be referenced only in other working correspondence and documents by participating organizations.

MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER

HOUSTON, TEXAS August 1969

APPROVED BY

George M. Low

Manager, Apollo Spacecraft Program”

(Courtesy DOD/NASA, APOLLO 10 MISSION REPORT, cover page, red color added)

“The braking maneuvers were performed behind the moon, and since the lunar module had no onboard recorder, no accurate description of this phase can be given. Nevertheless, the nominal propellant usage and the lack of any negative crew remarks indicate that braking was performed effectively. The vehicles were only a few feet apart at Network acquisition, about 10 minutes after theoretical intercept.”

(Courtesy DOD/NASA, APOLLO 10 MISSION REPORT, MSC-00126, Page 25, red color added)

But later on in the same document we find this little gem tucked away.

“A tape playback from the lunar module recorder during this period revealed two master alarm warning tones: one at engine on and the other coincident with the pitch trim fail. No warning tone was found for the second propellant low-level alarm. The tone circuit is in parallel with the master alarm system; therefore, there is nothing common to both systems which could have caused both to malfunction. Further, no malfunction of the master alarm system was apparent after the phasing maneuver. “

(Courtesy DOD/NASA, APOLLO 10 MISSION REPORT, MSC-00126, Page 236, red color added)

If you were to start researching the voice recordings and transcripts you will find some of the most obvious omissions, and discrepancies, in the space program documents, most were sanitized and rewritten. In fact it is so hard to figure it all out that the writers of a history of the Apollo space flights, one that is posted on an official DOD/NASA web site had this to say…

“Where the differences are not significant, the differences have been ignored. Where there are slight differences in timings, these have been adjusted to ensure the sequence of conversation is correct.”

(Courtesy of DOD/NASA -Apollo 16 - Notes on Transcription)

The “slight differences in timings,” is exactly what is required for a true copy of the records because the required delay in the voice recorder that should be there is missing in a lot of cases. In other words the original recordings were not made at or on the Moon. With all of the voice recordings and all of the written transcripts they still could not make the records come out correctly so they just changed the records to make everything fit and work out OK. This is such a deep and complicated subject that one whole chapter will have to be devoted to just this one subject of fraud, omissions, and discrepancies in the official documents.

Apollo 11:

Mission Summary

(Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA)

Analysis

When you look at the timeline table, you will find that when the Apollo 11 mission blasted off on July 16, 1969 there was already 11 known spacecraft orbiting the Moon in selenocentric orbit. This does not include Luna 15 which we will talk about in more detail. There was also 21 objects in cislunar orbit, that might take the object near the Apollo 11 spacecraft, and last there were 8 objects in an unknown orbit, including the Luna 15 4th Stage. The above only includes objects in the registries. See previous missions for additional comments.

Apollo 11 was unique in that it was the only Apollo mission where other spacecraft that might have been a hazard was openly discussed in the media.

Apollo 11 was the show of shows, the show to end all show, the finale. No other show will be able to approach it in scope, creativity, and worldwide following. It was the first and last. There could only be one space flight in which for the first time man set foot on another body in the solar system.

The propaganda was so thick surrounding just this mission, that one whole chapter will be devoted to bringing the facts to the light of day. And you will find it hard believe what you read but it will all be documented.

But for now we just want to talk about Apollo 11 and Luna 15.

Now let’s look at the records concerning the Apollo 11 LM.

The Apollo missions used the lunar rendezvous concept, where four different spacecrafts were joined together and went to the Moon as one craft joined together. After reaching the Moon two of the spacecraft that were joined together at the factory descended together to the Moon’s surface, the LM decent and ascent stages. After the Moon surface activities were over the LM ascent stage was explosively separated from the decent stage rising to meet the CSM in lunar orbit.

The official final Apollo 11 flight plan dated July 1, 1969, on page 3-97 calls for the LM jettison at GET 131:53:05 in a retrograde orbit of 58.5 x 59.4. See image below. This was almost a circular orbit. Since this was the final separation of the two spacecraft and the LM would not be needed anymore, notice how they were separated, by arming and firing these pyros. Hundreds of pyros were used all over the complete spacecraft and saturn rockets. But in this particular instance these were explosives devices used to cut the two spacecraft apart and the spring loading would provide the first separation, with firing of the RCS thrusters for the final 2fps separation. The flight plan shows 1 fps but other documents record the actual speed as about 2 fps.

(Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA)(Red highlights by author)

Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing
The Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing July 31st 1969
Prepared by: Mission Operations Branch Flight Crew Support Division

131 LM Jettison
Armstrong - LM jettison went as planned.
Aldrin - Was there ever any intentions to track the LM after jettison?
Collins - No. That was never even discussed.
Aldrin - I don't understand why we left it in VHF ranging mode and left the track light on.
Collins - I have no idea. We never had a DTO on it, or to my knowledge, it was never even discussed.
Armstrong - The separation was slow and majestic; we were able to follow it visually for a long time.
Collins - The LM held its attitude extremely well. I don't know what mode you left it in, but I thought when the explosive charge fired, it would sort of start going ass over tea kettle. It must have been in some good attitude hold mode, wasn't it?
Armstrong - We could watch the jets fire to hold attitude as it went away.
Aldrin - It was in MAX dead band, AGS ATT hold. It seemed to me that, right at the time of separation, as the LM moved away, I could see some cracks that had developed in the outer thin skin of the top part of the LM in the gray material that forms an area around the docking cone. However, according to the ground it held pressure. I couldn't see any other damage that had been caused by blowing the tunnel.
Collins - The only comment that I had is that the separation burn was something that MPAD had changed their minds about a time or two. Originally, it was going to be 1 ft/sec horizontal retrograde. Then for some reason, they wanted it 45 degrees up from horizontal, and they wanted 1 ft/sec retrograde component or a total burn of 1.4 ft/sec. I don't have any preference one way or the other. It just seems like that's a fairly simple thing, and they ought to get their desire worked out early in the game and not have that be a late, last minute change, because it just makes for last minute conversations on unimportant things.
(My comment: notice the direction of the LM away from the Moon.)
(Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA)

Apollo 11 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transmission
04 18 18 31 CC
Roger, Tranquility. We observed your equipment jettison on the TV, and the passive seismic experiment recorded shocks when each PLSS hit the surface. Over.
04 18 18 47 CDR (TRANQ)
You can't get away with anything anymore, can you?
04 18 18 51 CC
No, indeed.
(My comment: if the passive seismic experiment was so sensitive it could record objects hitting the Moon after being thrown from the LM, why didn't it record the crashing of the LM module itself? See below for more on this.)
(Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA)

What do other official NASA personnel in their documents and movies say happened to the Apollo 11 LM?

“The LM lifted off from the Moon at 17:54:01 UT on 21 July after 21 hours, 36 minutes on the lunar surface. After docking with the CSM, piloted by Michael Collins, at 21:34:00 UT, the LM was jettisoned into lunar orbit at 00:01:01 UT on 22 July. The fate of the LM is not known, but it is assumed that it crashed into the lunar surface sometime within the following 1 to 4 months.” (NASA Official: Dr. Ed Grayzeck E. Bell, II)

This is a screen printout from the DOD/NASA's own space registry web site,
showing the Apollo 11-LM ascent stage is still in selenocentric (Moon) orbit.

You will notice the UN registration document number is A/AC.105/INF.216.
Let's go look that one up and see what it says, it is three pages long.
The Apollo 11-LM ascent stage #1969-59C is highlighted in red.
Notice the date of the original letter to the UN,

Here is a table I made, courtesy of UNOOSA, of every document filed by the USA with the UN from 1962 through early 2008.
With hot links! Hope this helps in your own research.
The missing numbers were issued to other countries.

Notifying State/Organization:

United States of America

Apollo: Where are they now?
Current locations of the Apollo Command Module Capsules (and Lunar Module crash sites)
The Apollo Command Module Capsules are on display at various sites throughout the U.S. and the world. The Apollo Lunar Modules were deliberately targeted to impact the Moon to provide artificial moonquake sources for seismic experiments. The list below gives the locations of these displays and impacts.
Apollo 6
Command Module
Fernbank Science Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Apollo 7
Command Module
Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas, Texas
Apollo 8
Command Module
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois
Apollo 9
Command Module "Gumdrop"
San Diego Aerospace Museum, San Diego, California
Apollo 10
Command Module "Charlie Brown"
Science Museum, London, England
Lunar Module "Snoopy"
In heliocentric orbit
Apollo 11
Command Module "Columbia"
The National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
Lunar Module "Eagle"
Jettisoned from the Command Module on 21 July 1969 at 23:41 UT (7:41 PM EDT)
Impact site unknown
Apollo 12
Command Module "Yankee Clipper"
Virginia Air and Space Center, Hampton, Virginia
Lunar Module "Intrepid"
Impacted Moon 20 November 1969 at 22:17:17.7 UT (5:17 PM EST)
3.94 S, 21.20 W
Apollo 13
Command Module "Odyssey"
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, Kansas
(formerly at Musee de l'Air, Paris, France)
Lunar Module "Aquarius"
Burned up in Earth's atmosphere 17 April 1970
Apollo 14
Command Module "Kitty Hawk"
Astronaut Hall of Fame, Titusville, Florida
Lunar Module "Antares"
Impacted Moon 07 February 1971 at 00:45:25.7 UT (06 February, 7:45 PM EST)
3.42 S, 19.67 W
Apollo 15
Command Module "Endeavor"
USAF Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
Lunar Module "Falcon"
Impacted Moon 03 August 1971 at 03:03:37.0 UT (02 August, 11:03 PM EDT)
26.36 N, 0.25 E
Apollo 16
Command Module "Casper"
U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama
Lunar Module "Orion"
Released 24 April 1972, loss of attitude control made targeted impact impossible.
Impact site unknown
Apollo 17
Command Module "America"
NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
Lunar Module "Challenger"
Impacted Moon 15 December 1972 at 06:50:20.8 UT (1:50 AM EST)
19.96 N, 30.50 E
(Courtesy DOD/NASA - web page on their web site)

So this brings us to Luna 15. What was in the news about Luna 15 and Apollo 11? Here are just a few copies of some of the newspaper articles. There are literally thousands of these so those included here can only be a representative sample. But you will get the point. No other Apollo mission had this much coverage or any coverage concerning hazards in space.

Just to put this in perspective, in May just two months earlier Apollo 10 went to the Moon, and was in the same orbit as Apollo 11, when the LM decent stage was jettisoned. It was still orbiting the Moon, during all of the Apollo 11 mission. And because of its highly elliptical orbit it put both of the Apollo 11 spacecraft in its cross hairs. Not only was the Apollo 11 LM at risk of being hit but the Command Module orbiting above was also in danger. See the comments about Apollo 10 above. But you can read every document and newspaper article about the Apollo 11 mission and not one word is mentioned about the Apollo 10 LM or any other space craft in orbit around the Moon during this mission.

Also notice the article below from the Oakland Tribune, about Col. Frank Borman visiting the Soviet Union just prior to this mission. Wonder what his real mission was? A lot of different stories about that also, as you can well imagine.

Apollo 12:

Mission Summary

(Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA)

Analysis

When you look at the timeline table, you will find that when the Apollo 12 mission blasted off on November 14, 1969 there was already 12 known spacecraft orbiting the Moon in selenocentric orbit. There was also 21 objects in highly eccentric cislunar orbit, that might take the object near the Apollo 12 spacecraft, and last there were 9 objects in an unknown orbit. The above only includes objects in the registries. See previous missions for additional comments.

The Apollo 11 LM ascent stage was still in orbit around the Moon. That is the only thing new to be added and that is discussed elsewhere.

Not much new here that already hasn't already been said.

Apollo 13:

Mission Summary

(Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA)

Analysis

When you look at the timeline table, you will find that when the Apollo 13 mission blasted off on April 11, 1970 there were already 12 known space craft orbiting the Moon in selenocentric orbit. There was also 22 objects in highly eccentric cislunar orbit, that might take the object near the Apollo 13 spacecraft, and last there were 9 objects in an unknown orbit. The above only includes objects in the registries. See previous missions for additional comments.

In each of the cases we are talking about, the spacecraft and its parts were already in an orbit that left the Earth and was on its way to the Moon. Either in a free return or a hybrid orbit. Here again we will use the drawings from Apollo 13 to show these orbits.

fig. 6
(Apollo 13 drawing showing the path of the CSM/LM
after the original hybrid transfer maneuver, showing both orbits.)
(Courtesy US Congress & DOD/NASA)

fig. 8
(Apollo 13 drawing showing the two paths of the CSM/LM, after reverting
back to the free return, and the original hybrid transfer maneuver.)
(Courtesy US Congress & DOD/NASA)

"The first slide (fig. 6) very simply describes the mission we were in. In earth to moon, we were on the familiar figure 8 maneuver. We were on this trajectory called hybrid transfer maneuver, the dotted line - we had left the free-return trajectory, which is the dashed line around the moon and back to earth. The start of the problem occurred about 180,000 miles away from the earth, at about 55 hours, 55 minutes."

"Next slide. (See fig. 8.) Very simply, after the start of the problem, we did the midcourse to free-return to the earth at about 61 1/2 hours. We now had a trajectory established - again it was the dark one - back to the earth. We did have a number of maneuvering opportunities in order to improve both the time it was to take to return to the earth and the area in the earth to which we would return. One of those opportunities is labeled up there, PC+2. That describes an opportunity 2 hours after pericenter, at the closest approach to the moon, which was one of the techniques that we would have used if we had to do an abort during the interim orbit."

Statement of GLYNN S. LUNNEY, APOLLO 13 Mission Director, to the US Congress.

(Apollo 13 Review Board Report, Courtesy DOD/NASA)

Is this true? Exactly what was the differences between the translunar orbit injection burn, and the mid course correction burns on the way to the Moon for these flights? As you can see in the table below all of the missions were going to reach the Moon about 500 n. mi. after the translunar injection, except for 10 and 11, but by the time they all reached the Moon they were within 75 to 95 miles, whether they were in a free-return or a hybrid orbit. Also look at the discrepancies in the Apollo 12 records, as recorded in the same document.

Mission

Translunar
Injection

MMC-1

MMC-2

Lunar Orbit Insertion

Time

Distance
from
Moon,
n. mi.

Time

Velocity Change,
ft/sec

Distance
from
Moon,
n. mi.

Time

Velocity Change,
ft/sec

Distance
from
Moon,
n. mi.

Time

Altitude above Moon,
n. mi.

Velocity Change,
ft/sec

Lunar Orbit,
n. mi.

Apollo 8

02:50

458.1

10:59

20.4

66.3

60:59

1.4

65.8

69:08

75.6

2,997

168.5
by
60.0

Apollo 10

02:33

907.7

26:32

49.2

60.9

75:55

95.1

2982.4

60
by
170

Apollo 11

2:44

896.3

4:40

19.7

180.8

26:44

20.9

61.5

75:49

86.7

2917.5

60
by
170

Apollo 12

2:47

Text and
drawing
470.7
TBL 5-IV
280.2

30:52

61.8

65.1

83:25

82.5

2,705

170.0
by
61.8

Apollo 13

02:35

415.8

30:40

23.2

63.2

61:29

38.0

136.3

So what does the Apollo 12 mission report say about the reason for the hybrid orbit? "The major advantage of the new profile, termed a "hybrid" non-free-return trajectory, is the greater mission planning flexibility." As a matter of fact look at the distance each spacecraft was going to be from the Moon, the pericynthion altitude, after each MCC, it is labeled "distance from Moon," in the table above. I can see no difference after these MCC maneuvers, in the free-return orbits, then the "hybrid" orbits. All of these flights required at least one MCC to get it anywhere near the correct orbit, and after these MCC maneuvers none of them were on a free-return orbit any longer. Here are just more discrepancies in the records.

Then we get this statement by Mr. Lovell to the US Congress concerning the Apollo 13 mission!

(HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES
UNITED STATES SENATE, NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION
APRIL 24, 1970 STATEMENT OF ASTRONAUT JAMES A. LOVELL, COMMANDER OF APOLLO 13.) (Courtesy US Congress & DOD/NASA)

WHAT!!! Did you just get the meaning of the comment above, by ASTRONAUT JAMES A. LOVELL COMMANDER OF APOLLO 13?

He LIED to the US Congress!!

Both of the flight paths, the free-return and the hybrid, would have taken Apollo 13 back to the Earth without them doing anything else or making any other maneuvers. Look at fig. 8 above. The only difference in the two orbits would have been how close they were to the Earth when they arrived there. Also both orbits would have required transearth correction burns (MCC) later in the mission. And a burn for the landing itself. The only advantage I can see for doing the burn to put them back on a free-return orbit was that if anything else was to go wrong, when they arrived back at the Earth, the Earth's gravity would have pulled them into an orbit around the Earth. They could have been rescued then in Earth Orbit. If they had left the spacecraft on the hybrid orbit and something else had gone wrong, preventing any more orbit changes they would have gone into a permanent Earth/Moon orbit. It would have been very hard to rescue them from this orbit. So the decision to go back to a free-return orbit while they were still able to, not knowing yet the true extent of the damage and the true condition of the spacecraft, was clearly the correct one at the time. But this whole mission was for show, and suspense, and was a LIE!

This whole Apollo 13 mission as presented to the people was totally bogus, and a whole chapter will have to be devoted to just this one mission. This was the most untruthful and creative SHOW since Apollo 11!

Mr. Lovell was also on the Apollo 8 mission, how could he have not known that what he was saying was not the truth? This was a prepared speech to the US Congress long after the mission was over. Of course the truth would not have been as dramatic as the lie. The Apollo 8 Lunar Orbit Insertion was as follows; "The 246.5-second duration lunar orbit insertion maneuver was performed at 69:08:20, and the initial lunar orbit was 168.5 by 59.9 n. mi." They had to fire that powerful rocket engine at full bore for over 4 minutes to get into lunar orbit! And this was AFTER being in a hybrid orbit just like Apollo 13! That statement to the US Congress was all for show. We were going to be lost in space, in orbit around the Moon forever, and we had to do everything we could to get home, he was telling us. His exact words were, "My main concern at this point was to get this spacecraft back within the earth’s atmosphere. I felt that this would be a much better termination of this flight at least to come back into the atmosphere than it would have been to not come back at all." UNTRUE!! FALSE!! LIES!! To get back into the Earth's atmosphere they still had to do the PC+2 burn, and many mid course correction burns! The free-return orbit would not have taken them into the Earth's atmosphere! The atmosphere ends at only 60 to 80 KM above the Earth.

In either the free-return or the hybrid orbits they could have gone into a transearth orbit without doing anything. In either the free-return or the hybrid orbits they could have gone into lunar orbit after they did the LOI (lunar orbit insertion) burn. The major differences between the two orbits was how close they would be to the Earth and Moon when they arrived at those locations. The whole reason for the hybrid orbit was to save time and fuel and provide more options in mission planning.

If you have unlimited time and fuel you can go to the Moon any way you want, but if you have limited resources in time, fuel, and consumables, the orbits must be chosen very carefully.

I will close this out with one more big lie at the US Congress speech concerning the Apollo 13 orbit and trajectory and the options available to them.

STATEMENT OF GLYNN S. LUNNEY, APOLLO 13 MISSION DIRECTOR

"However, we discarded that on the basis of the unknown thermal environment, the command module heat shield and the command module control system, propellant and jet control system we use for entry, would be in if we jettisoned the service module. Those systems are essentially at the lower end of the module and they are protected by the command module being attached. To remove it would have endangered the all-important heat shield for entry."

Now these five pictures clearly show there was nothing concerning the command module that was being protected by the service module. They were in space, no atmosphere remember? The heat shield survived not only the fiery re-entry, but hours in space outside the Earth's atmosphere, on Apollo missions 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, & 12. Why did they think there would be a problem on Apollo 13? Since the service module and the command module were totally shut down early in the mission how could the service module protect the command module components thermally? What was this "unknown thermal environment"? During every mission the command module and the service module were separated long before insertion in the Earth's atmosphere for the landing. In other words what Glynn Lunney was saying in plain English was this. We could have returned the crew faster by getting rid of unneeded spacecraft parts, but the show must go on, and we need to provide as long as show as possible so the mission will seem even more in danger then it really was.

Apollo 14:

Mission Summary

(Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA)

Analysis

When you look at the timeline table, you will find that when the Apollo 14 mission blasted off on January 31, 1971 there was already 12 known spacecraft orbiting the Moon in selenocentric orbit. There was also 22 objects in highly eccentric cislunar orbit, that might take the object near the Apollo 14 spacecraft, and last there were 11 objects in an unknown orbit. The above only includes objects in the registries. See previous missions for additional comments.

There were no new objects in lunar orbit, that haven't already been discussed.

Not much new here that already hasn't already been said.

Apollo 15:

Mission Summary

(Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA)

Analysis

When you look at the timeline table, you will find that when the Apollo 15 mission blasted off on July 26, 1971 there was already 12 known spacecraft orbiting the Moon in selenocentric orbit. There was also 22 objects in highly eccentric cislunar orbit, that might take the object near the Apollo 15 spacecraft, and last there were 11 objects in an unknown orbit. The above only includes objects in the registries. See previous missions for additional comments.

The Apollo 15 mission added the IRW Sub-satellite to the objects in lunar orbit, in addition to all of the other things already there. It is on record as still being in orbit as late as 1984. Strange though, no mention of this hazard on either the Apollo 16 or 17 missions.

Not much new here that already hasn't already been said.

Apollo 16:

Mission Summary

(Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA)

Analysis

When you look at the timeline table, you will find that when the Apollo 16 mission blasted off on April 16, 1972 there was already 14 known spacecraft orbiting the Moon in selenocentric orbit. There was also 22 objects in highly eccentric cislunar orbit, that might take the object near the Apollo 16 spacecraft. and last there were 14 objects in an unknown orbit. The above only includes objects in the registries. See previous missions for additional comments.

The Soviet Luna 19 spacecraft was sent to the Moon and was placed in lunar orbit. It went into lunar orbit on October 3, 1971 and was in orbit for about a year according to DOD/NASA. Therefore that means it was there in lunar orbit during the Apollo 16 mission. Why no big fuss about hazards and safety like there was concerning Apollo 11 and Luna 15? It was just as much a known hazard. Something strange going on here!

The Apollo 15 mission added another IRW Sub-satellite to the objects in lunar orbit, in addition to all of the other things already there. It is on record as crashing into the Moon on May 29, 1972, so it did not present a hazard to Apollo 17.

Apollo 16 added the LM ascent stage to lunar orbit, to add to the collection there.

"3.3.4 Lunar Module Deorbit Maneuver
It was planned to deorbit the lunar module ascent stage to impact the
lunar surface at a predetermined target point. However, immediately after
the lunar module was jettisoned, attitude control of the lunar module was
lost (see see. 14.2.6). As a result, the ascent stage remained in lunar
orbit with an expected orbital lifetime of about one year."
(Courtesy DOD/NASA)

Therefore that means it was there in lunar orbit during the Apollo 17 mission. Why no big fuss about hazards and safety like there was concerning Apollo 11 and Luna 15? It was just as much a known hazard. Something strange going on here!

Luna 19

NSSDC ID: 1971-082A
Description

Luna 19 was placed in an intermediate earth parking orbit and, from this orbit, was sent toward the Moon. It was placed in a lunar orbit on October 3, 1971. Luna 19 extended the systematic study of lunar gravitational fields and location of mascons (mass concentrations). It also studied the lunar radiation environment, the gamma-active lunar surface, and the solar wind. Photographic coverage via a television system was also obtained.

(Courtesy DOD/NASA/NSSDC )

Luna 19
Trajectory Details
Type: Orbiter
Central Body: Moon
Epoch start: 1971-10-03 00:00:00 UTC
Epoch stop: 1972-09-30 00:00:00 UTC
Orbital Parameters

Periapsis	Apoapsis	Period	Inclination	Eccentricity
1.08 RL	1.56 RL	121.13 min	40.6°	0.18

(Courtesy DOD/NASA/NSSDC )

Apollo 17:

Mission Summary

(Declassified Courtesy DOD/NASA)

Analysis

When you look at the timeline table, you will find that when the Apollo 17 mission blasted off on December 7, 1972 there was already 15 known spacecraft orbiting the Moon in selenocentric orbit. There was also 22 objects in highly eccentric cislunar orbit, that might take the object near the Apollo 17 spacecraft, and last there were 14 objects in an unknown orbit. The above only includes objects in the registries. See previous missions for additional comments.

Not much new here that already hasn't already been said. Just read all about what was in orbit during this flight in the analysis of Apollo flights 8 through 16 above. Total silence about everything as before.

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