The Last Man on the Moon

And that is why I absolutely love that Admin posted this right next to HSF’s Level.

It is why I’m about to remind everyone it is time to start funding the next quarter of this year for TBP expenses.

I’m going to hope Marc realizes I’ve come to question even some of the things I’ve seen over the years.

As you may or may not remember, I have a friend who claims to have access to all of NASA’s copyrighted images. I’ve asked her about the images supposedly taken by Gordon Cooper in the 1960s Mercury program. Faith 7 (nice name, huh?) orbited the Earth 22 times and he claimed to have taken over 5000 images from orbit.

So, I got to thinking… if Gordon orbited the Earth in May 1963, did that influence JFK’s decision to announce the goal of getting a man to the moon in “this decade?” Did those 5000+ photos reveal something that suggested such a goal was possible?

Or possible to fabricate?

This is the only one I see when I searched for photos he took online… a couple others, but certainly less than a half dozen! My friend suggests they are still classified* since his main goal was to take photos of Soviet military positioning.

She said that any images available from Faith 7 would be in the NASA library online.

Here is what they have:

Why would ALL of the photos he took still be classified? That was May 15, 1963 and this is what NASA has in the library.

Around the 19:28 point, there are a few of Gordon Cooper’s “random” color snapshots.

The Phillipine Islands!

I guess we have always been at war with Eurasia after all. This was revealed after Cooper died in 2004. He kept a secret set of notes showing what he suspected to be sunken treasure ships!

In a nutshell, Gordon Cooper had an ulterior motive. He kept a separate set of notes to show where sunken treasure ships might be. His real assignment was to take as many photos as possible of Soviet nuclear capabilities and try to find submarines and hidden Soviet bases.

We have indeed always been at war with Eurasia.

*My old friend has not ever pulled the classified thing on me. She usually lets me know somehow what she knows about the topic. She believes they are classified, I think. She’s still in Mordor.