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Viva NASA!

Eyewear wishes NASA a very happy 50th birthday today, tomorrow (its precise anniversary), and in the future. The space agency has, famously, put men on the moon, and used a Canada arm to good effect. Hopefully, it will redouble its efforts, in years to come, to get men and women onto Mars. Terraforming the Red Planet needs to be one of the later 21st century's goals. Meanwhile, the unmanned probes go on, allowing us to extend, literally, human knowledge. While I have never been an Asimov-addict, or a slide-rule afficionado, I do believe that hard science, heavy lifting, and all systems go can inspire. Houston has sometimes been the Cape of Good Hope. Talk about retro: Obama as Kennedy, NASA back in the news (in a good way). Is it time to release the clones of Elvis from captivity?
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Anonymous said…
There's a very interesting interview with Apollo astronaut and scientist who went to the moon -- Dr Edgar Mitchel - from 23 July on Kerrang Radio and available on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhNdxdveK7c

he claims he was *involved in this work* and knows the real inside story, that *we have been visited* and the Roswell was real and there are a number of *contacts* ongoing which the governments involved have been covering up for the last sixty yrs.

Over the next four yrs the UK are releasing all its UFO files and various other governments including Belgium, France, Mexico and Brazil have been doing so.

the interviewer, a young radio jock who says *this is easily one of the most incredible conversations of my life* -- asks if the intent of these non-earth citizens is malevolent and Mitchel says, well if that was the case we would know about it now, being as they are so advanced.

NASA's response to the interview is here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSOSLC-U5cU&feature=related

the Kerrangg jock rang NASA on the air and it is all very ...

Smovid Mates
Mon Jul 28, 03:20:00 pm 2008
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