US space program. How it was - the story of a big swindle

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

For sane people, it has long been clear that the Americans have never flown to any moon.

But few people have thought about the program of American manned space flights as such. In this note, I will not touch on the technical side of the matter - it has been described in detail and tastefully in various sources. More interesting to me seems to be the chronology of events, motives and decisions that were made by the rednecks.

After Gagarin's landmark flight, the Americans felt that they were losing their undisputed technical leadership. The damned Russians once again showed that there are no obstacles for them, and they are capable of performing any, even the most difficult task. It was decided that such a thing could not be tolerated, and the Americans began to work on their own flight into space.

However, creating a spacecraft capable of launching humans into space and returning them to Earth proved to be a difficult task. The USSR was able to do this by concentrating colossal scientific, labor and natural resources in this area. Of course, this had to pay off with a decline in the living standards of the population. Instead of conventional tractors for agricultural - lunar tractors. Instead of accessible assholes - space metal, and for the people - creaking and crumbling buses, and so on. The Americans could not agree to this in any way, because it would have blown up America from the inside. The question arose - what to do? And then the masters of psychological warfare said - why, in fact, should we fly? To achieve our goals, it is enough for us to show the visibility of our flights.

After all, nuclear missiles fly, and they fly well. The satellites provide excellent pictures and radio communications. Nothing else is needed! And the work began to boil. Tin cans called Gemini were created, and the equipment installed on them showed pictures from space quite tolerably.

There were also suborbital launches of these ships with people on board, they rose up to 120 km above the surface of the Earth - the improved Von Braun FAU-2 missiles could not give out more. But the most respectable public did not need to know about this, they did not know. Although in most cases, the crew solemnly loaded onto the rocket actually calmly descended into the protective room inside the launch pad (its photo is on the network), and after the start went to work at the radio center, from where it conducted its transmissions, relaying them from a tin can dangling in space. And everything went off with a bang - the Russians believed that the Americans could go into space.

However, in America they understood that this was a temporary solution. Not today or tomorrow, the Russians will deploy a network of satellites in space, on land and in the ocean - a network of stations and tracking ships, and the deception will be revealed. Therefore, it was decided to achieve victory in space over the Russians by landing on the moon.

However, without solving the problem of creating a habitable capsule, it was impossible to do this. Initially, work in this direction was carried out very intensively. But as more and more difficulties were identified in the rocket, the life support system, the possibility of overcoming the newly discovered radiation belts around the Earth, the US leadership realized that the task facing them was impracticable. It was here that the historic meeting of the President of the United States Johnson, the designer Wernher von Braun and the former chief lawyer of the United States, Robert Kennedy, took place. On it, von Braun said that a manned flight on his rocket is impossible - hydrogen engines do not work (they cannot work in zero gravity, but then no one knew this).

The USSR was almost ready to fly around the moon. Of course, there was no question of any landing on the moon. However, Johnson, realizing that further delay in flying puts a fat end on the entire "American dream" and the West is losing leadership, which is being transferred to the Russians, makes a desperate decision to bluff further. Kennedy, using his fame in the Soviet establishment, promises to probe the ground on the topic of Russian approval of the lunar scam, does this - and dies, struck by bullets, Sirkhan Sirkhan (who, KMK, will never be released from the slammer - he suddenly blabs out why he killed RFK). The moon scam begins. The Soviet leaders of the space program do not receive information about the Brezhnev-Johnson deal, and do not receive, on the personal instructions of dear Leonid Ilyich, intelligence about the "space" flight of Apollo - and they did. For the intelligence of the army, and even more so the navy, does not put any words of the enemy into a penny. The Americans are well aware of this, and they block Soviet ships that read telemetry from the Apollo launches, having an order from the president to sink them immediately if they intercept information about the missile flight. However, the Russian sailors were not bastards, and by the next Apollo launch they had put out to sea all the ships at their disposal, including minesweepers, and caught in the Bay of Biscay a few hours after the start of another dummy of the "lunar" ship, which took place in Hollywood as Apollo 13.

Under the cover of cruisers and submarines, the iron barrel was delivered to Murmansk, and later, in the presence of journalists, was handed over to the American authorities. Thus, the USSR acquired, in the literal sense, an iron, galvanized hook, allowing America to firmly hold the gills in the space issue. For participation in the lunar scam, the USSR received a number of tasty buns - the end of the exhausting arms race, the US withdrawal from French Indochina, almost free supplies of Anglo-Saxon food and, most importantly, the admission of Soviet oil and gas to the markets of Western Europe - that is, an uninterrupted source of the coveted currency. The Soviet lunar exploration program was buried, as was the American one. No one else flew to the moon. As a reinforcing gesture of the deal, a joint, as they said, Soviet-American expedition "Soyuz-Apollo" was carried out.

Which, of course, was also staged on the American side - even by 1975, the United States did not have a living space compartment. Films from orbit were now provided by the great defender of the lunar fraud, and then the cosmonaut Leonov. For which he received the Star of the Hero and the Order of Lenin. Hero of deception, yes. I do not even mention the attempts to create an orbital station in Hollywood by the Americans - the attempt frankly failed.

Having started the space game with the USSR, the Americans understood that agreements could not last forever. They were based on a deal with Comrade. Brezhnev. The followers of dear Leonid Ilyich could easily spit on them. And the Americans did not plan to deceive people forever. It seemed to them - just a little bit, and they would be able to create an inhabited ship, they would assemble blocks for a flight to the moon, clean everything up there, and they could forget about the story with the scam. Once again, based on technologies that were new by that time, the Americans are starting the Space Shuttle program.

And a miracle is happening - the Americans are building a really large, advanced for those times spacecraft, capable of launching people into space. And, drawing a line under twenty years of solid lies, on April 12, 1981, exactly 20 years after Gagarin's flight, the first Americans are symbolically put into low-earth orbit. Thus, giving a signal for those who understand - yes, we were 20 years behind, but now we have undoubtedly pulled ahead - and the Russians are stagnating. It is very important that the first real flight of American cosmonauts took place during the life of dear Leonid Ilyich. It seemed that the space deal could be safely completed. Ronald Reagan, immediately after a successful start, did just that, announcing the Star Wars program. But…

The shuttle turned out to be an extremely expensive and unreliable design - the malfunctions followed one after another. The flight schedule was going to hell, and with it the chances of ever assembling an apparatus for a flight even to lunar orbit looked more and more ghostly. Meanwhile, Brezhnev died. And then a tragedy occurred - the explosion of the spacecraft's oxygen tanks was no longer in Hollywood, but in reality, and the death of the astronauts. The shuttle flight program was stopped completely. The design of the lunar scam staggered, threatening to bury many American, and not only people, under its rubble - after all, the participants in the scam committed, no less, the gravest crime against America - they lied to the American Congress. Reagan instantly changed his anti-Soviet rhetoric, and backed down - no star wars, radical arms reductions, friendship, etc.

But then the USSR had internal problems, and it was not up to space. And then it completely collapsed, and with it the threat of exposure of the US space fraud went away for some time. The shuttle program was resumed and they continued their flights. But not for long - the next shuttle collapsed with a crash during landing. The United States took the lead in the number of space victims, and it became clear to everyone that the king was naked. That the vaunted American technologies are not able to provide safe flights into space in the 21st century and, therefore, all the more could not provide them in the 20th century. The Americans had to bow to the Russians, and buy from them first "Mir-2", and then flights to it. And then the motors for the missiles. The degradation of American industry has reached its climax. After the announcement of the PRC about the start of its own lunar program, Obama said something about the resumption of the American one, but he was quickly blown away - the United States had no opportunity to go into space.

Thus, the United States has to lie further - but every day it becomes more and more difficult to do so. With which I congratulate them. For any deception someday, yes, it ends.