CHAPTER 1-S7 - BLACK OPS on the MOON & MARS

We still have not talked about the parts such as the 36 SLA panels, and the 3 Sim bay door covers. So what about these items where did they go? What was their trajectories? Could they have been a hazard to anyone on any mission?

The first thing to remember is that once an object is moving between the Earth and the Moon if no other force is applied to that object it will continue in that same path it is on. There are an infinite number of orbits any object can take so we will have to talk in generalities. We are here concerned with just a few basic types of orbits.

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. Reference the drawings in the Apollo 13 analysis above to see these orbits. When the CSM/LM separated from the S-IVB they were in a free-return orbit. So the 36 SLA panels went into free-return orbits which would take them into periodic paths around the Earth and Moon. But never in any of the documents are any of these panels discussed except some missions talked about their own panels. I am not saying these panels would actually would have hit one of the Apollo spacecraft, what I am saying is that the potential was there, and that being the case why are there no discussion or anything in any of the records?

Let me put it this way, why was such a big issue made of the Luna 15 spacecraft on the Apollo 11 flight, but none of the other objects in this report were even mentioned? And why did no other flight even mentioned any of the hazards they faced?

Wouldn't you think that with spacecrafts whizzing around with them in lunar orbit there would have been some kind of communication? Like for instance someone asking those on Earth if there was anything on radar they should be watching out for? DOD/NASA has provided documents that they say includes every word spoken by the astronauts in orbit. But nowhere in those documents are these thing referenced. Also any and every object that might be a possible hazard could not have been anticipated before any flight because no one knew exactly when and where the spacecraft would be until they actually were there in orbit around the Moon. They had a basic idea before the flight but that was all.

The 3 Sim Bay door cover panels were ejected while the spacecraft were in lunar orbit but there is nothing in the records concerning the fate of these objects. Since we have nothing in the record showing that they crashed on the Moon's surface, we can assume they are still there orbiting the Moon. If they had crashed onto the Moon, the experiments that were placed on the Moon and recorded all of the crashes on the Moon since Apollo 11 should have recorded this fact.

"PSEP uses three long-period seismometers and one short period
vertical seismometer for measuring meteoroid impacts and
moonquakes. Such data will be useful in determining the
interior structure of the Moon; for example, does the Moon
have a core and mantle like Earth." Apollo 11 press kit.

	If there was a "space race" why has not a single person from any other country, other then the USA, been to the moon, even to just go around it?
	Why was some high level DOD/NASA official in the USSR just prior to every manned Apollo mission?
	Why were all of the documents concerning the space program that were created during the time of the Apollo missions classified or allowed to only go to certain internal people, or those high up in DOD/NASA such as the administrators?
	Why is so much of the true information about the Apollo programs still classified?
	Why aren't the countries recording all of their spacecraft and parts with the UN?
	Why did Apollo 11 and Luna 15 receive so much publicity but other USSR spacecraft in lunar orbit were never mentioned, either in the media, or in any DOD/NASA documents?
	By who and how were the spacecraft in lunar orbit being monitored so the Apollo astronauts would know if they needed to perform avoidance maneuvers?
	Why is there no mention of any spacecraft around the Moon during any of the Apollo missions except for Apollo 11, in any documents, or recordings?
	Why does the Apollo 10 document say there was no LM voice recorder, when there was?
	Why would the 5 Lunar Orbiters pose such a hazard to the Apollo missions but other spacecraft wouldn't?
	Why were the Apollo 10, Lm 4 Descent Stage, and the Apollo 11-LM ascent stage never mentioned in any other later Apollo mission documents or recordings?
	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?”
	Why did astronaut Lovell deliberately lie to the US Congress concerning getting marooned in orbit around the Moon during the Apollo 13 mission!
	Why didn't any of the passive seismic experiments record any of the spacecraft that crashed on the Moon other then the ones that were deliberately brought down?
	Why doesn't all of the official DOD/NASA web sites and written documents say the same thing about the location of all spacecraft?
	If the Apollo 13 astronauts were really in danger why didn't they bring them back as soon as they could have, even without putting them in any greater danger, by jettisoning the service module?

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