While experts are only discussing the possibility of a manned flight to Mars, information appears in the media that expeditions to the Red Planet have allegedly already taken place. Moreover, they not only built scientific bases there, but also found Martians ... This was recently told to foreign journalists by the captain of the American marines Retired Jeremy Kay.
According to Kay, for the past 17 years he has been serving ... on Mars, commanding one of the units of the secret space fleet, which is under the command of international organization called Earth Defense
Force ("Earth Defense Service"), which included representatives of the United States, China and Russia. Their task was to protect the earthly colonists from the "unfriendly local population."
Kei's unit guarded five research bases built by Earthlings. Before serving, Jeremy had to undergo special three-year training at a secret base located on the moon. It was called Lunar Operations Command. As a result, the captain learned to fly three types of space fighters and three types of bombers, designed for combat operations in a vacuum.
The service was not easy. The fact is that indigenous people Mars was hostile and aggressive towards aliens from Earth, and the earthly guards constantly had to be on the alert. In the end, Kei got so tired guarding the earth bases that he asked to retire. The command even arranged a pompous farewell ceremony in his honor.
It is clear that this story, told by the Exonews portal, most of all looks like an ordinary "duck". But the fact is that there is other information related to the Martian bases. So, about twelve years ago, the Western press published a picture called a frame from a video film shot in 1962 and telling about the landing on Mars of some kind of expedition - either American, or Russian, or joint ... In a fuzzy photo, you can distinguish a small figure in a space suit, which is engaged in drilling the soil. The date was also indicated - May 22, 1962.
But how could a flight to Mars take place in 1962? After all, then none of the largest space powers - neither the United States nor the USSR - had a launch vehicle that had the power necessary for such missions. True, in the Korolev Design Bureau a landing project was being developed Soviet cosmonauts to Mars, scheduled for 1985. But, according to official data, by this time humanity was not yet ready for such travels.
In June 2011, American amateur astronomer David Martinez discovered on satellite images of the Red Planet in the Google Earth program strange object over 210 meters long and about 45 meters wide, which he took for a research station. Speculation has been put forward about its origin: either it is a station extraterrestrial civilization, or earthlings have long settled on Mars ... Martinez even came up with his own name for the object - "Alfa Biostation". He repeatedly contacted NASA with requests for comment on the find, but only one comment was received in response from National Administration Aeronautics and Research outer space extremely skeptical...
Oops, Schiaparelli's apparatus crashed!.. What a surprise
It's Mars... Oh no, it's Mauna Loa. Taken from the web.
The Schiaparelli spacecraft sent to Mars as part of the ExoMars mission "to search for biological traces of life on this planet" crashed on the surface of the Red Planet. Separated from the parachute early, laments ESA chief Jan Werner, “and the engine braking lasted too little. The device was falling at a much greater speed than it should "...
Sadly. But not surprising. For some reason.
Usually the program is designed in such a way that the engines run for as long as it is necessary for a normal descent, and the parachutes do not unfasten ahead of time. If such failures occur, then, apparently, there are some reasons for this. Which?
In a strange way, Schiaparelli suffers a catastrophe precisely at the moment the American Curiosity rover, which has already become a legend with its photo reports from the surface of the Red Planet, is on Mars.
At first met with a storm of emotions, photographs of creatures that are very similar to earthly, distant lights, rocks, very similar to monuments, over time, they began to cause, let's say, distrust. It wasn't so unreasonable.
Let's start with the fact that since the first day Curiosity appeared on Mars, amateur researchers have exposed NASA in insincerity: by comparing the coloring of the rover before sending it to space trip, with the coloring of the details of the apparatus already on the surface of Mars. It turned out that the details of the rover in the photographs published by NASA, for some reason, do not match the colors taken on Earth. When the rover was returned to its natural color, photographs of the planet's surface suddenly took on a different color: instead of dull, gray and light brown, desert landscapes, the researchers saw blue sky, areas covered with something green.
For what purpose American scientists issued such a substitution - no need to guess. NASA for some reason really wanted Mars to live up to the existing legend about its lifelessness and hostility to humans.
Every day of the work of the rover, inquisitive amateur ufologists found more and more oddities: the sent photographs more and more often came across objects that surprisingly resembled the silhouettes of terrestrial animals, and even people. And once the photo presented a sensation: the shadow of an astronaut repairing the rover.
These oddities increasingly aroused distrust among meticulous researchers. Moreover, there was a reason for this.
Expeditions to the moon by American astronauts, which in fact turned out to be a bluff: it turned out that the comrades did not fly anywhere, and filmed a heroic breakthrough into space in Hollywood pavilions. Well, film frames, photos and film frames from the Moon, as well as tens of kilograms of samples, as you know, were unexpectedly lost. So, just lost! Some supply manager or someone else took invaluable materials and threw them away ...
Now Mars is being slipped to us with strange photographs of landscapes very similar to those on Earth.
Moreover, there is reason for doubt if you look at the reports of an experiment that lasted a whole year on the northern slope of the dormant Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, which was conducted by NASA, studying "the psychological and physiological problems that participants in a future manned flight to Mars could face" .
Photos of the Hawaiian test site were surprisingly similar to those photographed and sent back to Earth by the Curiosity rover.
Of course, critical ufologists, and just readers of the Web, immediately began to put forward versions of another forgery by American scientists, now associated with Mars.
Catastrophe spacecraft Schiaparelli, in my opinion, confirms this version, which is not too unexpected today.
Schiaparelli, the brainchild of Russian and European scientists, could quite possibly expose another NASA fake with his photographs of the surface of Mars. A scandal of this magnitude, of course, could not but excite American researchers. And that's why…
Is it difficult today to arrange a diversion by stopping the experiment, putting a comma or an ellipsis instead of a dot in the program ... Well, the programmer forgot, he was distracted, reaching for a cup of coffee brought by a colleague, with whom he does not happen.
By the way, several accidents with Russian missiles took place precisely because of the mistakes of programmers. Why, in this case, not think about the sabotage that stopped the opportunity to expose the new NASA scam?
The other day space agency director NASA Charles Bolden, speaking live on the most famous British channel ITV News said that life on Mars was, is now and, probably, in the near future there will be a personal meeting of earthlings with the inhabitants of the Red Planet. According to him,Previously, Mars was almost identical to Earth, and some similarities are still preserved - this is evidenced by the signs discovered as part of the Mars Science Laboratory project.
Charles Bolden's performance certainly deserves attention. Firstly, this is a recognized expert in the space industry: he was previously an astronaut, went into orbit four times - in two missions as a crew commander. Then Bolden made a brilliant administrative career: under his leadership, NASA has been successfully operating for five years. And secondly, the statement of the head of NASA indicates that the Americans have successfully advanced in the exploration of Mars. The point is that in recent times NASA carefully filtered the information coming from the Red Planet. The public was given out exclusively "routine" facts, such as: the Curiosity rover drilled wells in a rocky area, the rover discovered rounded pebbles and other data of no particular scientific value.
But a device worth more than $2 billion, equipped with super-expensive modern equipment, has been on Mars since August 2012. At its launch, it was stated that the main tasks of the Curiosity mission are to conduct detailed geological and geochemical studies, study the atmosphere and climate of the planet, search for water or traces of its presence, organic matter. These data should determine whether there was once and whether there is now life on Mars. The program included a route approximately 22 km long and even climbing Mount Sharp 5.5 km high in the center of Gale Crater. Of course, the world expected a flurry of information, but so far the Americans have not reported anything sensational.
During all this time, it was possible to find out that the water content in the soil of the Gale crater is small and amounts to only about 2%. This water is not free, it is part of the red iron hydroxides and you should look for water not here, but at the bottom of the Mariner gorge. The analyzes of methane in the atmosphere as an indicator of life, carried out by American scientists, also turned out to be unreliable - it turned out that it still does not exist. So nothing outstanding.
At the same time, many specialists in the field of space are convinced that Americans hide really interesting finds, because previous American probes and rovers almost every month gave out sensations: they found huge river valleys, grandiose volcanoes, the giant Mariner Gorge, various sedimentary and igneous rocks, an abundance of the rare mineral maghemite on Earth, as well as obvious traces past life. But the current Curiosity is a super-perfect model, which embodies the best space technologies of our time. In particular, the device is equipped with a set of chemical analyzers, with the help of which man-made objects can be identified and conclusions can be drawn about the possibility of their belonging to a highly developed civilization.
But it all started very well. The first pictures of Curiosity were very promising: they photographed an object that looked like the sole of a sandal, a serpentine rusty wire, a mysterious dome on the horizon. It was clear that by exploring only these objects, one could learn a lot of interesting things. But suddenly the information stopped coming. It can be assumed that American researchers are faced with undoubted evidence of the existence in the past or present of the remnants of a technogenic civilization, but for some reason they decided not to advertise it. It seems that NASA representatives are playing for time, trying to hide really sensational data behind the flow of insignificant information.
And the current speech by the head of the space agency, Charles Bolden, is clear evidence that Americans have long been aware of the presence of civilization on Mars. They know, but they are silent - perhaps because they do not want their discoveries, in which they have invested billions, to be received by the whole world for free.
The blogosphere and serious publications are still discussing a month ago as an completed experiment to simulate a flight to Mars. The Internet was flooded with beautiful images of a special training complex on the slope of the dormant volcano Mauna Loa, and lengthy statements Ilona Mask about the inevitability of the conquest of the Red Planet. The only pity is that this epic will be limited to pictures and streams of words. For lack of funds, as they say.
Moreover, the United States is technically unable to even repeat the expedition to the moon, and this was said back in 2011. Where, one wonders, are the results of the Constellation-Constellation program, on which they spent a lot of dough in 2004-2010, and which was canceled Barack Obama in 2011? It was a program specifically for the creation of lunar bases by 2018-2020! It turned out to be technically impossible and financially absurd.
Meanwhile, the Moon is extremely little explored. NASA only launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) in 2009, and The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) in 2011 to study the surface of the Moon and its gravitational field. Until 2009, the United States did not even have a map of the territories where there could be a landing for a new lunar expedition. What about studies of the Van Allen belts between the Moon and the Earth? Only since 2012, studies have begun (RBSP (Radiation Belt Storm Probes)). The Americans refused to land on the moon back in 2011 - they are not pulling. They cannot repeat the successes of the Apollo program!
If we accept that the United States is not in a position to send an expedition even to the Moon, then how can they carry out a dozens of times more difficult expedition to Mars and, most importantly, for what? What is there for a person to do? Five automatic vehicles (three of them American) are already operating in Mars orbit, plus rovers. There is already a certain amount of information that allows us to judge that the landing of people there is useless. Yes, and it is impossible (there is a huge risk that it is possible not to take the astronauts back).
Worse, America is simply not capable of such an expedition.
Let's start with the fact that the United States does not even have a launch vehicle capable of providing a flight to Mars (and to the Moon too). It was in the last century that Americans riveted interplanetary delivery vehicles like on an assembly line. In the 60s of the last century, the United States managed to create and send on a test flight a unique Saturn-5 super-heavy launch vehicle (1962−1967) in just five years, and in just 7 years they managed to reach the Moon with its help (1962− 1969). In total, the United States produced as many as 15 such unique launch vehicles in a short time, 13 of which flew into space in 1967-1973.
In addition, in 1961-1965, the United States produced and launched 10 Saturn-1 launch vehicles into space, and in 1966-1975, another 9 launches were made by Saturn-1B launch vehicles. In total, the United States in 1961-1975 produced 36 such rockets, of which 32 went into space. Another 2 Saturn-1B rockets were unfinished. This is to talk about the "non-serial" of these missiles!
In the 21st century, the United States, already at a higher technical and technological level, has been working for more than 12 years to create some kind of similar carrier of a similar class, but so far the results are more than modest - there is nothing even in a test form. In 2004-2011, within the framework of the Constellation / Constellation program (the landing of Americans on the moon and the creation of bases on it in 2018-2020 with the aim of further flight to Mars in 2035-2036), the Ares-5 launch vehicle was developed, but then the program was curtailed.The rocket was not created.
Since 2011, the United States has launched a program to create a super-heavy Space Launch System launch vehicle capable of launching from 70 tons of payload to LEO. It is assumed that it is this rocket that will make it possible to send an expedition (one way) to Mars. The first test launch of this launch vehicle was originally planned for 2014, now they are talking about the end of 2018. The rocket itself, of course, does not exist.
But the world was shown a picture and visualization of the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System, and the people happily began to jump. Why? Any design studio will make it even cooler. There are no launch vehicles, no technologies, no ships, not even the calculations of such expeditions.
I summarize:
1. For flights to the Moon and Mars, a super-heavy launch vehicle is needed, capable of launching from 70-100 tons of payload (minimum) into low Earth orbit and up to 40-60 tons (minimum) to the flight path to the Moon or Mars.
2. In the history of the Earth, there have been two successful attempts to create such carriers. These are the Saturn-5 rocket, with which the Americans flew to the moon, and the Energia rocket, created in the USSR and made 2 flights into orbit. That's all (I don't mention H-1).
3. Attempts to create a similar missile of this level, the United States began to undertake since the early 2000s under the program "Constellation". Under this program, in 2004, it was planned to fly to the Moon in 2018-2020 and even create some bases there. In 2011, the program was closed, for 7 years no work has been done in terms of creating a super-heavy launch vehicle of the Ares-5 class. That is, the Americans could not even repeat their "successes" of the 60s.
4. Since 2011, the United States has been conducting a program to create a Space Launch System launch vehicle, which so far also does not exist in nature, moreover, there are not even working and tested engines for it. The first test flight of this rocket is scheduled for the end of 2018.
This is all you need to know for now about whether the Americans will fly to Mars and the Moon, and whether they will be able to repeat their own achievements half a century ago. Although the videos are beautiful, yes.
