14-11-2010, 07:44 PM
David
If your credulity is stretched beyond breaking point by the claim that they wiped the original moon landing tapes, what about the even more extraordinary claim that they destroyed all the blueprints for the Lunar Module? Arguably the most historic vehicle ever built on earth (or so the story goes).
It's interesting to read this attempt by a well-known moon-hoax-debunking site to pretend there is nothing unusual about this:
'Most people are surprised to learn that the design documentation for the lunar module amounts to a boxcar's worth for each individual spacecraft. …
Grumman is an aerospace engineering firm, not a museum. It did not wish to house the hundred thousand cubic feet or so of design documentation at its expense. As an aircraft manufacturer, Grumman is already required by aviation regulations to store the documentation for each commercial aircraft it builds. If the government does not require the manufacturer to retain the documentation, there is little incentive to do so voluntarily.
Only cursory material was retained for historical reference, and a few detailed items were saved by private citizens who picked them off Grumman's trash heap. But it's no great surprise to anyone who works in aerospace that the detailed documentation was destroyed.'
http://www.clavius.org/bibcollier.html
It's difficult to find words to adequately describe how preposterous this is: all the blueprints for the Lunar Module ended up on the company trash heap. As if!
If your credulity is stretched beyond breaking point by the claim that they wiped the original moon landing tapes, what about the even more extraordinary claim that they destroyed all the blueprints for the Lunar Module? Arguably the most historic vehicle ever built on earth (or so the story goes).
It's interesting to read this attempt by a well-known moon-hoax-debunking site to pretend there is nothing unusual about this:
'Most people are surprised to learn that the design documentation for the lunar module amounts to a boxcar's worth for each individual spacecraft. …
Grumman is an aerospace engineering firm, not a museum. It did not wish to house the hundred thousand cubic feet or so of design documentation at its expense. As an aircraft manufacturer, Grumman is already required by aviation regulations to store the documentation for each commercial aircraft it builds. If the government does not require the manufacturer to retain the documentation, there is little incentive to do so voluntarily.
Only cursory material was retained for historical reference, and a few detailed items were saved by private citizens who picked them off Grumman's trash heap. But it's no great surprise to anyone who works in aerospace that the detailed documentation was destroyed.'
http://www.clavius.org/bibcollier.html
It's difficult to find words to adequately describe how preposterous this is: all the blueprints for the Lunar Module ended up on the company trash heap. As if!