Graham2001
Active Member
I first spotted this article (Is There Any Hope for a Moon Base? by Phil Kouts) in the August-September 2014 issue of Nexus Magazine (Vol. 21 No. 5) and have subsequently been pointed to the online version.
The authors claim as written in the 'blurb' to the article is as follows:
http://www.donotlink.com/framed?589888
The authors claim as written in the 'blurb' to the article is as follows:
His analysis, after listing many 'issues' raised in the Constellation documents concludes, as might be expected:
NASA documents on the now-defunct Constellation Program for a return to the Moon by 2020 reveal startling evidence that the agency is still actually unable to send a manned mission to the Moon. It’s as if nothing has been learned from Apollo.
All of this is based off freely available NASA documentation, the authors bio as given at the end of the article is particularly telling:In the light of the above and many recent findings, to identify honestly the key problems and to clear the way forward to their pragmatic solution, wouldn’t it be more productive to finally recognise that the Apollo manned missions to the Moon, allegedly completed four decades ago, did not happen?
The full document can be read at:
Phil Kouts lives and works in New Zealand.
Phil Kouts has a PhD in applied physics and gained considerable experience in applied research, working as research fellow in various universities in the UK as well as an R&D manager in private companies.
He writes under a pseudonym to differentiate his professional occupation from his interests
http://www.donotlink.com/framed?589888