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But WHO is
actually working on this production?
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WHY DID THE MOON BROADCAST APPEAR AS
GRAINY VIDEO?
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First,
according to NASA engineers a slow-scan
camera was specially designed to work
within the existing radio channel
bandwidth, and to operate within a given
power budget. However, according to at
least one NASA engineer who worked on
the camera design that a slow scan to
NTSC converter was not available for the
real moonwalk. (NTSC is the overthe-air
broadcast standard still in use today
throughout America as of this writing.)
NASA has claimed that they simply
pointed a broadcast studio camera at a
monitor, hence the grainy pictures. This
also appears to be the case in the
rehearsal video. [2]
(This video is a permanent link down on
the left side of the rense.com
homepage.)
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EVIDENCE OF MILITARY ASSISTANCE
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The
various branches of the service have
both dress uniforms and work uniforms.
The top half of a common work uniform
consists of a dress shirt (for the army,
it's light green) with rank insignias on
the sleeves and a necktie. In the
following video clips, I attempted to
use frames where the stage crew members
were standing relatively still to
minimize video artifacts. The following
stills are not enhanced in any way
except for graphic notation added for
clarity. Sharpening any image will
create additional artifacts which will
further confuse the issue and was not
performed on any of these images for
that reason.
Still Frame 1 near beginning of video. White
arrow points to edge of elevated stage
([Above] Still frame 2- In this frame of the
video moments after the light bar crashes we
see a man who rushed in to assist the
astronaut/ actor. It is difficult to make
out his rank or service here. (Fallen light
bar can be seen at the rear of the image,
just over the shoulder of this man bending
forward slightly.)
Still frame 3 - Another man who rushed onto
the set to provide assistance appears to
have an arm patch. This also appears to have
an insignia which might be possibly a tech
sergeant or higher rank. Since the shirt
appears to reflect about the same amount of
light as the astronaut's white spacesuit the
shirt is probably either white or light
green, and not dark blue.
Still frame 4 - in this last frame near the
end of the video clip, we can make out a
shoulder insignia and other possibly bars or
an insignia on his sleeve, possibly a flag.
Moments later in the video, this man gives
the astronaut assistance to get back up the
ladder to reset the scene for another take.
Orange arrow pointing at the simple tubular
ladder which will be referred to later.
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What's
also interesting about this video is
that during this entire rehearsal
disaster, not one man who ran in to
assist the astronaut/ actor ever turned
his face toward the camera. None of them
ever looked back in that direction,
which anyone would certainly do when
taking instructions from the director
who usually sits beside the camera.
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If this
entire video is a fake, it's an
extremely well made fake. Including the
authentic spacesuit the actor playing
the astronaut wears. And down to the
tiniest detail, including a barely
audible "Cut!" yelled by a director
off-camera moments later after the light
bar came crashing down.
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NASA REHEARSALS MUST BE CONSIDERED
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All of
this is further complicated by the fact
that EVERY detail of each NASA space
mission is meticulously planned and
rehearsed, even today. Today, underwater
space walks in huge NASA pools are used
to simulate neutral buoyancy for space
walks. After the light bar comes
crashing down, we can see the "Lunar
surface" is perhaps a 20ft. square on an
elevated stage. In another part of the
video (not shown here) a stage crew
member rushes over to examine the light
bar that fell. The elevated stage is
about waist high on him, putting it
about three feet above the actual floor.
This is a common technique used to place
the action at the level of the camera
lens. Broadcast cameras of that era were
mounted on massive, tall pedestals.
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UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
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But if
this is a legitimate rehearsal, why did
NASA do it using slow scan television?
Why are the stage crew members never
showing their face? Was this rehearsal
performed to see how the historic first
moon walk will appear to the world on
television, when the astronaut jumps
steps off the ladder? There may also be
a "peter-pan rig" with steel wires
attached to the astronaut/actor, but
because of the poor resolution we cannot
reliably see it. Most likely there is
such a rig overhead, since he drops to
the fake lunar surface in slow-motion,
yet the stage crew rushes in at normal
speed. This is also a clue. If this
scrapped footage escaped the cutting
room floor, why wasn't simply erased for
re-use or thrown away in the trash? Why
was this footage kept, who kept it and
how did it survive for 38 years? If this
was originally videotape material,
professional studio decks that can
record/play this tape are only found in
museums. Who transferred it to another
medium, what medium was it and when was
that done? Why did someone wait for some
many years before making it public? All
these questions need to be answered so
that the chain of evidence will have
integrity.
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This rehearsal required a large crew of
people and a substantial budget. Only a
small portion of the production crew was
visible in this video. Keep in mind that
the Lunar Lander for the first moon
landing could not land where NASA
planned it to, because of massive
boulders seen at the landing site by the
Lunar module commander at the last
minute during descent.
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MYSTERY LADDER
Still frame from actual television broadcast
of historic moonwalk in 1969. [3]
I personally saw it live in 1969, and there
wasn't any NASA video text at the bottom of
the image. The event was broadcast live as
shown above.
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WHITE
arrow: Normal video blanking bar created
by television receiver which was used
for this photograph (NTSC video)
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BLUE
arrow: Flip-down panel on the side of
the Lunar Lander which holds the video
camera that took this image. Astronaut
removed the camera later from this
stowed position during a moonwalk
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RED
arrow: Could this be the edge of the
stage seen during rehearsal takes, or is
it the real edge of the shadow of the
Lunar Lander actually on the Moon? More
on this later.
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ORANGE
arrow - This ladder which is supposedly
the one world saw during the historic
first moonwalk, is a DIFFERENT ladder
than the one shown in the rehearsal
(Frame 3, also note orange arrow added
to Frame 3.). The ladder in this image
looks very similar to a household
outdoor extension ladder, and it is
attached to the lander's strut.
Rectangular vertical supports for this
ladder with which the rungs are welded
to or pressed into, are substantially
wider and thicker than the TUBULAR
ladder shown in Frame 3. Again, the
ladder in frame 3 is clearly a made of
welded tubes and not extruded aluminum.
Fine black bars visible in this image
which run diagonally across the image
are the probably result of an aliasing
frequency created by the difference
between the NTSC horizontal frame rate
and the far slower scan rate from the
Lander's special slow-scan camera.
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If the
video in question (shown in still frames
1 through 3 in this essay) is merely a
rehearsal, why would NASA use a
DIFFERENT LADDER for such an important
rehearsal? They would not do so,
especially since the ladder is a key
functional part of this historic moment.
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Ladder differences aside, the actual
broadcast footage which the world saw
shows the same edge of the stage (red
arrow) at the same angle as Still Frame
1 (white arrow.) The only way to put
this entire matter to rest will be to
obtain legitimate documents and
testimony from participants. Perhaps
documentation still exists for this
rehearsal. The real challenge will be to
verify any new evidence which shows that
the rehearsal footage is a fake. But
everything considered, these still photo
comparisons appear to verify it is true:
Side by side comparison of live broadcast
video (left) and rehearsal video (still
frame 1, right) Note that the text "LIVE
FROM SPACE..." is part of the rehearsal
footage, not the aired footage. The actual
aired footage (left image above) did not
show this. [4]
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More
important is that the stage (Lunar
surface) appears at exactly the same
angle with respect to the ladder angle.
Some small differences in the two
spacesuits are also visible here.
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Is this
the smoking gun?
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Ted
Twietmeyer
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