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Saturday, May 21, 2011 4:06 PM

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Astronauts inspect gouge on space shuttle's belly

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts took a close, detailed look at a small gash in the belly of their ship Saturday, to ensure their safety when they return to Earth in 1½ weeks.

NASA ordered the inspection during the next-to-last shuttle flight, even though managers said there was no reason to be alarmed by the damage generated by Monday's liftoff.

The 3-D survey — normally not needed on a shuttle's underside — was carried out just a few hours before an unprecedented VIP call to the orbiting shuttle-station complex.

Pope Benedict XVI was set to make the first papal call to space, phoning the 12 astronauts from the Vatican. Two Italians are on board: one is a member of the shuttle Endeavour crew, while the other is close to ending a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station.

Working from inside, the astronauts used the shuttle robot arm and an extension boom, tipped with lasers and cameras, to hone in on the damage to the thermal tiles. The combined instruments stretched 100 feet and hovered 7 feet from the damage.

The gouge — spanning two tiles — measures just 3.2 inches by 2.5 inches. It's the depth that flight controllers hoped to ascertain with Saturday's survey, to make certain no repairs were needed. The images were beamed down to Mission Control for analysis; the entire inspection lasted an hour.

Space station cameras actually detected several areas of damage on Endeavour's underside, right before the shuttle docked to the International Space Station. Only one spot posed concern, between the main landing gear door and the external fuel tank door.

Similar damage was seen on a flight by Endeavour in 2007. That gash turned out to be just an inch deep, and no repair was necessary.

By coincidence, that 2007 mission was commanded by the identical twin brother of Mark Kelly, the astronaut in charge of Endeavour's present flight. Kelly is married to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who received a skull implant this past week in Houston. She was shot in the head in January during a political event in Tucson, Ariz.

NASA established the shuttle safety checks following the 2003 Columbia disaster. A hole in the left wing led to Columbia's destruction during re-entry. All seven astronauts were killed.

Endeavour is making its final voyage before being retired to a museum in Los Angeles.

Still ahead for Kelly and his crew are three more spacewalks, the next one on Sunday. On the fourth and final spacewalk of the mission Friday, the astronauts will attach the inspection boom used Saturday to the outside of the space station. Its laser sensors will no longer function, but the pole itself could prove useful for possible repair work.

Landing is scheduled for June 1.

The 30-year shuttle program will end in July with the launch of Atlantis.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9656844

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Saturday, May 21, 2011 4:17 PM

BYTEMITE


Uh oh.

This is an important news story. The shuttles have been the workhorse too long, maintenance is not keeping up.

At the same time, I see the prospects of humanity escaping the controlling global interests into space shrinking even more.

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Sunday, May 22, 2011 2:15 AM

DREAMTROVE


They might even stage a shuttle crash, but I suspect they're just cancelling the program. It's like the airplanes: They want nothing in the sky. Nothing but Skynet.


That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Monday, May 23, 2011 5:48 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by dreamtrove:

They might even stage a shuttle crash, but I suspect they're just cancelling the program. It's like the airplanes: They want nothing in the sky. Nothing but Skynet.



And Predator Reaper Terminator drones.

Pakistan Gun Battle Rages as Militants Storm US Predator Reaper Drone Air Base...just like Operation Northwoods?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-22/explosions-firefights-erupt-a
t-pakistani-naval-aviation-base-under-attack.html



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Monday, May 23, 2011 10:02 AM

HERO


Quote:

Originally posted by piratenews:
Astronauts inspect gouge on space shuttle's belly


Truth is the shuttle is doomed, doomed I tell you! (Assuming it lands safely.)

I suspect that shuttle will never fly again.

H

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Monday, May 23, 2011 11:23 AM

DREAMTROVE


Quote:

Originally posted by piratenews:
Quote:

Originally posted by dreamtrove:

They might even stage a shuttle crash, but I suspect they're just cancelling the program. It's like the airplanes: They want nothing in the sky. Nothing but Skynet.



And Predator Reaper Terminator drones.

Pakistan Gun Battle Rages as Militants Storm US Predator Reaper Drone Air Base...just like Operation Northwoods?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-22/explosions-firefights-erupt-a
t-pakistani-naval-aviation-base-under-attack.html





Yes, that would fall under "Skynet."


That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Friday, June 3, 2011 8:25 AM

OLDENGLANDDRY


PN wrong again FOR REAL.

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 5:16 AM

HARDWARE


PN takes the point of view that if you throw enough shit at a wall some of it will stick. He's got a 99.9% fail rate, but he keeps chugging on that 0.1% success rate.

Wrong again PN, as usual.

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

...and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. Luke 22:36

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 9:11 AM

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Kosher psyop wargame drill in Tuscon faked the Gabby Giffords shooting and assassination of Fed judge voting against Dictator Hussein Obama.

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These questions are as follows:

Was they're a shooting at that location, on Jan 8th 2011, that involved the persons Representative Giffords, and The Honorable Judge John Roll?

or...

Was the event in the SafeWay parking lot, and surrounding area, a staged training event similar to what is outlined in the ExPlan document, and subsequently no one was struck with a bullet at that location?



To the best of my ability, I believe the only data that can be tested for accuracy and verified by proven scientific forensic analysis as to its authenticity, is the Police, and Fire, radio dispatch "calls" broadcast that day, by the Oro Valley police, and fire, dispatch center.

That evidence, allows me to make the reasonable claim that the event that day was a drill. My statement is based on the fact that approximately 10:45am, Jan 8th, 2011, Oro Valley Police departments primary dispatch channel broadcast a call, concerning a "Mass Shooting" with multiple injured at the SafeWay parking lot, adjacent to the Ina and Oracle intersection in Tucson Arizona. Included in her call was the

information that directed those to the location that a command center was already set up in the parking lot, and from what direction to enter the shopping center.

That same day, the same Oro Valley Police Dispatcher that made the 10:45 call, made a second call for another "Mass Shooting" at approximately 12:06pm to the same SafeWay Parking lot adjacent to the roads Ina and Oracle, and provides the identical information about the command center and how to enter the complex.

Now remember the Shooting took place at 10:00am according to the Pima Sheriffs office press release first officers arrived at 10:15 and had the suspect in custody just a few minutes after arriving. The reason why we don't hear this call go out is due to the event calls for control of a radio channel for them to communicate on.



Those are the irrefutable facts of the matter. Upon listing to the archived recording you can clearly hear the difference in the tones of the operators voice that during the first dispatch came from a person that obviously thought the event was real. The second time around her voice is drastically different, and almost completely monotone. We could speculate why but what is not speculation is the simple fact that the event was played out at least twice that day once at 10:36am and again at 12:06pm.



Use this as a guide to understand how FSE's (Full Scale Events) are conducted.

It outlines a school shooting scenario but the blueprint almost identical to the Giffords event as well as others.

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click to read each official PDF:
http://wellaware1.com/giffords/loughner/shooting/christina_green/arizo
na/lies/giffords.htm


ExPlan
Participant-Handout
Actor-Info-Waiver-Form

Police Dispatch Call at 5:00pm for 2nd shooter who matches physical description of Jared Loughner
10:35am calling out event and command center location
10:45am calling out the witnesses found gun outside 2nd safeway
12:03pm calling out event and command center location
Shooting_Timeline
Timeline_shooting_press_release
Shooting_-_First_On_Scene
Shooting_Injured
Shooting_Update
Shooting_Update_-_Photos_and_Video
Attempt_to_Identify
Events_New
Memorial_Update
Memorial_Update_011211
Operation_Center-corrected-1
Redacted_Shooting_Tapes
Shooting_010811
Shooting_100210_safeway
Shooting_-_Media_Inquiries





Let me start with this clip. It aired on the 6th 2 days before the Giffords event.

When you watch this please take note of this clearly expresses someone had fore knowledge that the Giffords event was about to take place.

Grey's Anatomy Season 7, Episode 11 - Air Date: 1/6/2011

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"Disarm" News of the incoming mass causalities after a gunman opens fire at a local college hits the staff hard when they must spring into action, even while their own wounds a... User Rating: TVF Review:






After the event took place, I felt like most of America, that we were not being told the truth. So I managed to contact Steven Cates (the guy with the pink hair) through Face book. We chatted a few times but he never would admit to being an actor in this event, so I kept digging. After a few days of searching google for his name I ran across a web site that listed Steven as well as 3 other individuals as part of a media group called Radian-Helix media. Once I found their Face book site then each of the individuals listed as being a contributor to the company, the pieces started to fall in place. One by one the people we were being shown on the TV as being an eye witness, Dr, Giffords staffer, event attendee, first responder, etc were looking like friends of one of the Radian Helix Media partners, Dave Weiss.

As you look at the evidence keep Mr. Weiss in mind, and take a look at his FB page for your self. Is this all just a massive coincidence?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=778587085&sk=friends&v=friends
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Radian-Helix-Media/116616915038153
http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/names-det
ail.p?name-id=L16495015&type=L.L.C


UPDATE DAVE WEISS has posted his brothers photos or old photos of himself on his site in an attempt to through you off the path. Nice try there Dave. The mystery that surrounds him does not effect the fact that he is connected to all the individusl we talk about on this site.

Dave Weiss aka Dr. LeMole (Rep Giffords Arizona Dr) isnt a Doctor at all, he just plays one on your tv. Dave is a partner in a film, video, and CGI media production company located in Arizona called Radian Helix media. Its owned by Brandan Pittman (the person you see when you look at the Jared Lee Loughner mug shot) In Daves FaceBook friends list we find people that look alike and share the same genetic facial landmarks as do individuals either living or dead on the news. Here are just a few of the people you can find there:

click for links:
http://wellaware1.com/giffords/loughner/shooting/christina_green/arizo
na/lies/giffords.htm








































This video is probably the most important video you will ever see. Not just for its contents but what the contents expose. For years you have been lied to by the leaders you elected to office. They with the help of their media allies have continued to present a false picture through the TV of a world they want you to believe exists. When in reality it is a much different place. The people around the world need to unite as one voice, not one government, not one currency, and not one religion as they in power are trying to impose on you.


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With this video, for the first time in history do we have the proof of a cover up so massive and so influential that it effects every aspect of life on this planet.

Once you understand this, you need to go back and think about EVERY politician that used the Guilfords' event for their political gain. You must also understand that these people are actors, and know this event was staged. EVERYONE involved, including the corporations that run the news media, their reporters, all the people that run the non profits associated with fake death of this little girl, MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS. AND YES that means the President included.

DO YOU realize they have been staging WITH ACTORS events across this world that are being used to persuade you into accepting their ILLEGAL wars, they are responsible for the MURDERS of MILLIONS.

Here are additional images for you to review. Take note the center is said to be recent, while the two outer are said to be two years old. During that time it appears she has had a nose job (which is interesting due to the person playing Loughners classmates Caitlin Parker also shows to have had a nose job, this is interesting due to the fact that their is strong evidence that they are mother and daughter and Parker is believed to be the person in the 9 year old photograph)


Jew momma of "dead 9/11 girl" in Jared Loughner's jew church is actually a detective in the Tuscon Police Dept. Left = dick, center = mom, right = dick

The mother we have confirmed is a Tucson Detective Cynthia Ann Butierez, the administrator for the software coplink. You would think someone with her background would, first of all not take part in a fraudulent act, and second know that its impossible for a lie of this size to go under the publics radar. By her taking part in it she must feels comfortable with doing something that is unbecoming an officer. I would have to assume she was authorized to do so and had her superiors permission. That means the Police Department is guilty, as well as Sheriff Dupnik. The fact that the FBI investigated and has done nothing means they are just as guilty. And finally since the Department of Homeland Security, was the ones managing the FSE, guess what that means?

Here we see Caitlin Parker (Loughners Friend) the facial landmarks don't lie. I also like the nice touch with the cross around the neck, like mother like daughter:


How much do you look like your photos from 10 or 20 years ago? Do you wear the same style clothing as 10 or 20 years ago?



This photo take during the Christina Taylor Green Funeral. This just further adds to the mountain of evidence that the entire Giffords shooting was what Homeland Security calls a FSE or Full Scale Event, as outlined in the ExPlan document. The funeral was like all the rest of the images we are shown on the news pertaining to the events surrounding the Giffords drama.

Looking closely at the photo we can see the reflection in the rear of the hearse It reviles a big oversite made by the film studio Radian-Helix media (the film video and CGI company that Brandan Lee Pittman (loughner).


http://wellaware1.com/giffords/loughner/shooting/christina_green/arizo
na/lies/Brandan_Lee_Pittman.html



"Jared Lee Loughner" mugshot after photoshop

"Jared Lee Loughner" mugshot before photoshop


They neglected to have extras standing behind the camera., instead had all the extras lined up in front of the camera to give the illusion that the streets were lines with individuals coming out to wish the 9 year old good bye. There are many questions surrounding Christina, who they claim to have been born on September 11th but has not birth certificate or death certificate on record for her. Checking in the town her on screen mother and CNN list as her birth place which is different that the birth place in the book. In addition to this, the book also lists her as Christina Taylor, not Green.









Just about everyone else in the Rep Giffords event can be tied to one individual, Dave Weiss.


Dave Weiss & Radian-Helix Media separated at birth from Dr LeMole
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Weiss/778587085
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Radian-Helix-Media/116616915038153
http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/names-det
ail.p?name-id=L16495015&type=L.L.C




Dave Weiss aka Dr. LeMole (Rep Giffords Arizona Dr) isnt a Doctor at all, he just plays one on your tv. Dave is a partner in a film, video, and CGI media production company located in Arizona called Radian Helix media. Its owned by Brandan Pittman (the person you see when you look at the Jared Lee Loughner mug shot). In Daves FaceBook friends list we find people that look alike and share the same genetic facial landmarks as do individuals either living or dead on the news. Here are just a few of the people you can find there:

http://wellaware1.com/giffords/loughner/shooting/christina_green/arizo
na/lies/giffords.htm



June 02, 2011 (hour 2 at 33:00 min) Guest Ed Chiarini on The Power Hour(s) with host Capt Joyce Riley RN USAF
http://archives2011.gcnlive.com/Archives2011/jun11/PowerHour/0602112.m
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http://archives2011.gcnlive.com/Archives2011/jun11/PowerHour/0602113.m
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http://www.gcnlive.com/programs/powerHour/archives.php
http://thepowerhour.com/schedule.htm

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 9:59 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Which has absolutely nothing to do w/ the integrity of the Shuttle.

Niiiiice tap dance, PN.




" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 10:46 AM

PIRATENEWS

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Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:

Which has absolutely nothing to do w/ the integrity of the Shuttle.



Oops, I thought this was a discussion of the integrity of the shuttle program. My bad.

Very similar to the lack of integrity of the Apollo Moon program...or lack thereof.

Pentagon/CIA's Operation Northwoods mentioned faking the Apollo Moon race (exploding rockets with dead astronots blamed on patsies), and faking sniper assassinations in USA (real or simulated blaming real or fake patsies)...
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1

This guy Ed worked with Robert Grodin, the CIA photo expert who wrote excellent books on the faking of the Zapruder Film (by faking part of the Zapruder Film for the CIA), also a part of Northwoods and Mongoose. Grodin was the official US Congress photo expert for the House Select Committee on Assassinations that officially reported that JFK was murdered by 2 gunmen in a conspiracy.
www.jfkmurder.com


"We are going to the Moon in this decade..."
-JFK Back And To The Left

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 12:36 PM

HERO


Quote:

Originally posted by Hardware:
PN takes the point of view that if you throw enough shit at a wall some of it will stick. He's got a 99.9% fail rate, but he keeps chugging on that 0.1% success rate.

Wrong again PN, as usual.


He's a crazytalker. He's the crazy guy that wears the placard that says 'repent the end is near' who is always among the first to die in action movies when some city is being blown up or hit by an astroid.

He is always wrong. Just ask him about how he's been targeted by Her Majesty's Jewish Nazi Tennessee Death Squad Highway Patrol. They've been after him for years and every time they try to kill him all they manage to do is give him a taffic ticket.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you." "I am forced to agree with Hero here."- Chrisisall, 2009.
"I would rather not ignore your contributions." Niki2, 2010.

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 12:51 PM

HARDWARE


Please PN, let's talk about how Endeavor is doomed due to a gouge on its heat resistant tile. Oh wait, didn't Endeavor land already?

Let's see you spin your bullshit out of this one.

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

...and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. Luke 22:36

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Sunday, June 5, 2011 2:33 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by Hardware:
Please PN, let's talk about how Endeavor is doomed due to a gouge on its heat resistant tile. Oh wait, didn't Endeavor land already?

Let's see you spin your bullshit out of this one.

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

...and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. Luke 22:36




^ Winning.


" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Sunday, June 5, 2011 2:51 AM

PIRATENEWS

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Quote:

Originally posted by Hero:

He is always wrong. Just ask him about how he's been targeted by Her Majesty's Jewish Nazi Tennessee Death Squad Highway Patrol. They've been after him for years and every time they try to kill him all they manage to do is give him a taffic ticket.



Funny how I kicked THP's #1 cop's ass in court, and the district attorney general was so skeert of me he dismissed the case before 1 word was spoken in court on the record. The state attorney general is so terrified of Truth on my blog that he threatened my lawyer to STFU.
http://dragonaters.blogspot.com/2011/03/court-tdot-say-dragon-speed-li
mit-is-65.html


Now it's time to go on Offense against the lyin scumbag criminal municipal corporation. I love to see govt employees go to prison...don't you? It's also a slam dunk to win a civil lawsuit for violation of my constitutional rights under the Ku Klux Klan Act.

As for criminal govt employees, our current Kosher Nostra governor is a convicted criminal in the casino bizniss with trillionaire Nazi 9/11 bomber Rabbi David Rockefeller, capish?
http://dragonaters.blogspot.com/2011/05/criminal-governor-bans-traffic
-cameras.html


As for police state death squads, why bother making a traffic stop when you can just pump 30 bullets into any unarmed driver, then drop a gun 1 week later:

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Killer Kops smash snuff video and shoot 4 bystanders: 'You want to be fucking paparazzi?' God bless SD cards!
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=48669


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Sunday, June 5, 2011 3:19 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!





Shuttle Endeavor lands safely.




" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Sunday, June 5, 2011 8:43 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:

Shuttle Endeavor lands safely.



He did what he was told...no questions asked. Capish?

Quote:

"The cost of each launch has turned out to be 100 times greater than originally planned. Two of the first 113 flights ended in catastrophe. The shuttle has a 1-in-56 chance of not making it back. The FAA noted that if airlines had the same accident rate as the shuttle, we would lose 40 airplanes every day."
-Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, Disturbing Shuttle Discoveries: Consign shuttle to scrap heap, 2 Aug 2005
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/related/86705

"Get the fuck out!"
-Lt Alan Bean, Apollo 12 Lunar Module Pilot and Skylab 3 commander, Astronauts Gone Wild
www.moonmovie.com

"You don't deserve answers!"
-Lt Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11, "first man to walk on the moon", Astronauts Gone Wild




Apollo 1 Before and After

Apollo Astronaut Was Murdered, Son Charges

by Christopher Ruddy
Newsmax
February 11, 1999

Virgil I. "Gus” Grissom, the astronaut slated to be the first man to walk on the moon, was murdered, his son has charged in the Feb. 16 edition of Star magazine.
In another stunning development, a lead NASA investigator has charged that the agency engaged in a cover-up of the true cause of the catastrophe that killed Grissom and two other astronauts.

The tabloid exclusive by Steve Herz reports that Scott Grissom, 48, has gone public with the family’s long-held belief that their father was purposefully killed during Apollo I.

The Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo I mission was a simulated launch in preparation for an actual lunar flight.

NASA concluded that the Apollo I deaths of Grissom, as well as astronauts Edward H. White and Roger Chafee, were the result of an explosive fire that burst from the pure oxygen atmosphere of the space capsule. NASA investigators could not identify what caused the spark, but wrote the catastrophe off as an accident.

"My father’s death was no accident. He was murdered,” Grissom, a commercial pilot, told Star.

Grissom said he recently was granted access to the charred capsule and discovered a "fabricated” metal plate located behind a control panel switch. The switch controlled the capsules’ electrical power source from an outside source to the ship’s batteries. Grissom argues that the placement of the metal plate was an act of sabotage. When one of the astronauts toggled the switch to transfer power to the ship’s batteries, a spark was created that ignited a fireball.

Clark Mac Donald, a McDonnell-Douglas engineer hired by NASA to investigate the fire, offered corroborating evidence. Breaking more than three decades of silence, Mac Donald says he determined that an electrical short caused by the changeover to battery power had sparked the fire.

He says that NASA destroyed his report and interview tapes in an effort to stem public criticism of the space program.

"I have agonized for 31 years about revealing the truth, but I didn’t want to hurt NASA’s image or cause trouble,” Mac Donald told the paper. "But I can’t let one more day go by without the truth being known.”

Grissom’s widow, Betty, now 71, told Star she agrees with her son’s claim that her husband had been murdered.

"I believe Scott has found the key piece of evidence to prove NASA knew all along what really happened but covered up to protect funding for the race to the moon.”

Scott Grissom told Star that the motive for his father’s killing may have been related to NASA’s desire not have his father be the first man to walk on the moon because of criticism leveled at Grissom in 1961 after his Mercury capsule, Liberty 7, sunk in the Atlantic.

Critics of Grissom, including novelist Tom Wolfe, have claimed the astronaut panicked when his space capsule landed in the ocean, and he prematurely pulled an explosive charge to open the ship’s hatch, causing it to sink.

Fellow astronauts, however, gave Grissom the benefit of the doubt for several reasons. Grissom was a decorated Korean War pilot who had flown nearly 100 combat missions. He was a courageous man not known to panic.

There was also evidence that the explosive device on the hatch could accidentally blow without being pulled -- a fact that led NASA to remove such devices from future spacecraft.

Also, had Grissom pulled the explosive release on the hatch, his hand or arm should have had powder and bruise marks. Neither were found.

Grissom, one of the original Mercury seven, was the senior astronaut when the Apollo missions began.

Among the astronauts, Grissom was the most critical of the problem-plagued Apollo program, and the main Apollo contractor, North American Aviation.

Shortly before his death, Grissom had taken a large lemon and hung it around the space capsule as the press looked on. He had suggested publicly that the project could never be accomplished on time.

The Associated Press reported, "‘Pretty slim’ was the way [Grissom] put his Apollo’s chances of meeting its mission requirements.”

The Grissom family had reason to doubt the official NASA ruling from the beginning. Even before Apollo I, Grissom had received death threats which his family believed emanated from within the space program.

The threats were serious enough that he was put under Secret Service protection and had been moved from his home to a secure safehouse.

According to his wife, Grissom had warned her that "if there is ever a serious accident in the space program, it’s likely to be me.”

The Apollo I disaster led to a series of congressional hearings into the incident and NASA. During the hearings, one launch pad inspector, Thomas Baron, sharply criticized NASA's handling of the incident and testified that the astronauts attempted to escape the capsule earlier than officially claimed.

Baron was fired soon after giving the testimony, and died, along with his wife, when his car was struck by a train. Authorities ruled the deaths as suicide.

During the congressional hearings, Sen. Walter Mondale questioned the efficacy of manned space programs. Manned space flights were opposed by many of the leading space scientists at the time, including Drs. James Van Allen and Thomas Gold.

http://archive.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/2/11/00539

Tang Bomb killed Apollo 1
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=48693


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Sunday, June 5, 2011 4:50 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



Again, for those following at home.

Shuttle lands safely, PN nuts.

That is all.


" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Sunday, June 5, 2011 5:34 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:

Shuttle lands safely, PN nuts.



He did what he was told like a good little soldier, so he didn't get fragged like Pat Tillman.

One last flight of the space shuttle, then the US manned space program is DOA. Forever.

Does that sound right to you?

Quote:

By coincidence, that 2007 mission was commanded by the identical twin brother of Mark Kelly, the astronaut in charge of Endeavour's present flight.


How about that?

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Monday, June 6, 2011 2:56 AM

HARDWARE


No PN, you said that Endeavor was doomed. I want to hear you admit you were WRONG.

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

...and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. Luke 22:36

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Monday, June 6, 2011 4:45 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


He never will. But, you and PN are a lot alike in that respect.

But on to funnier things ... all those supposed look-alikes PN posted? It reminded me of all the many, many Sarah Palin look-alike articles and photos. Here is one of them -

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/galleries/sarah_palin_lookali
kes/sarah_palin_lookalikes.html

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Monday, June 6, 2011 5:05 AM

HARDWARE


Hey, Kiki, or is that Kwiki?

In another thread I categorically proved you were wrong with a blanket statement. I still haven't heard an admission to that effect.

Pot to kettle. Pot to kettle. You are black, over.

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

...and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. Luke 22:36

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