Why is NASA hiding "lunar soil" from the world?

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

It is believed that the Americans brought 378 kg of lunar soil and rocks from the moon. Anyway, NASA says so. This is almost four centners. It is clear that only astronauts could deliver such an amount of soil: no space stations can do this.

Photo: Lunar soil (NASA archive)

The stones have been photographed, rewritten and are the regular extras of NASA's "moon" films. In many of these films, the Apollo 17 astronaut-geologist Dr. Harisson Schmidt, who allegedly personally collected many of these stones on the Moon, acts as an expert and commentator.

Continuation. Start: Americans have never flown to the moon

It is logical to expect that with such lunar wealth, America will shake it, demonstrate it in every possible way, and to someone else, and its main rival will roll off 30-50 kilograms from the bounty. Here, they say, research, be convinced of our success … But with this, for some reason, it does not work. They gave us little soil. But "their" (again, according to NASA) received 45 kg of lunar soil and stones.

True, some particularly corrosive researchers carried out counting according to the relevant publications of scientific centers and could not find convincing evidence that these 45 kg reached the laboratories of even Western scientists. Moreover, according to them, it turns out that at present in the world no more than 100 g of American lunar soil wanders from laboratory to laboratory, so that usually the researcher received half a gram of rock.

That is, NASA treats the lunar soil like a stingy knight to gold: it keeps the treasured centners in its basements in securely locked chests, giving out only pitiful grams to the researchers. The USSR did not escape this fate either.

In our country at that time the leading scientific organization for all studies of the lunar soil was the Institute of Geochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now - GEOKHI RAS). The head of the meteoritics department of this institute, Dr. M. A. Nazarov reports: “The Americans transferred 29.4 grams (!) Of lunar regolith (in other words, lunar dust) to the USSR from all Apollo expeditions, and from our collection of Luna-16, 20 and 24 samples were issued abroad 30, 2 g . In fact, the Americans exchanged lunar dust with us, which can be delivered by any automatic station, although the astronauts should have brought weighty boulders, and it is most interesting to look at them.

What is NASA going to do with the rest of the lunar "good"? Oh, this is a "song."

"In the United States, it was decided to keep the bulk of the delivered samples intact until new, more advanced ways of studying them are developed," write competent Soviet authors, from whose pen more than one book on lunar soil came out.

“It is necessary to spend the minimum amount of material, leaving untouched and uncontaminated most of each individual sample for study by future generations of scientists,” - explains the position of NASA American expert J. A. Wood.

Obviously, the American specialist believes that no one will fly to the moon and never - neither now nor in the future. And therefore it is necessary to protect the centners of the lunar soil more than an eye. At the same time, modern scientists are humiliated: with their devices they can examine every single atom in a substance, but they are denied confidence - they have not matured. Or they didn’t come out with a snout. NASA’s persistent concern for future scientists is more like it’s a convenient excuse to hide the disappointing fact: there are no moon rocks or quintals of lunar soil in its storerooms.

Another oddity: after the completion of the "lunar" flights, NASA suddenly began to experience an acute shortage of money for their research.

As of 1974, one of the American researchers writes: “A significant part of the samples will be stored as a reserve at the space flight center in Houston. The cut in funding will reduce the number of researchers and slow down the pace of research."

After spending $ 25 billion to deliver lunar samples, NASA suddenly found that there was no money left for their research …

The story of the exchange of Soviet and American soil is also interesting. Here is a message from April 14, 1972, the main official publication of the Soviet period - the newspaper "Pravda":

“On April 13, representatives of NASA visited the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The transfer of samples of lunar soil from among those delivered to Earth by the Soviet automatic station "Luna-20" took place. At the same time, a sample of lunar soil obtained by the crew of the American Apollo 15 spacecraft was handed over to Soviet scientists. The exchange was made in accordance with the agreement between the USSR Academy of Sciences and NASA, signed in January 1971”.

Now you need to go through the deadlines.

July 1969The Apollo 11 astronauts allegedly bring 20 kg of lunar soil. The USSR is not given anything from this amount. By this time, the USSR does not yet have lunar soil.

September 1970Our Luna-16 station delivers lunar soil to Earth, and henceforth Soviet scientists have something to offer in exchange. This puts NASA in a tough spot. But NASA expects that in early 1971 it will be able to automatically deliver its lunar soil to Earth, and with that in mind, an exchange agreement was already concluded in January 1971. But the exchange itself does not take place for another 10 months. Apparently, the USA has something wrong with automatic delivery. And the Americans are starting to pull rubber.

July 1971In good faith, the USSR unilaterally transfers 3 g of soil from Luna-16 to the United States, but does not receive anything from the United States, although the exchange agreement was signed six months ago, and NASA allegedly already contains 96 kg of lunar soil (from “Apollo 11, Apollo 12 and Apollo 14). Another 9 months pass.

April 1972Finally NASA hands over a lunar soil sample. It was allegedly delivered by the crew of the American Apollo 15 spacecraft, although 8 months have passed since the Apollo 15 flight (July 1971). By this time, NASA allegedly already contained 173 kg of moon rocks (from Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 14 and Apollo 15).

Soviet scientists receive from these riches a certain sample, the parameters of which are not reported in the newspaper Pravda. But thanks to Dr. M. A. We know to Nazarov that this sample consisted of regolith and did not exceed 29 g in mass.

It is very likely that the United States had no real lunar soil at all until about July 1972. Apparently, somewhere in the first half of 1972, the Americans had the first grams of real lunar soil, which was automatically delivered from the Moon. It was only then that NASA showed its readiness to make the exchange.

And in recent years, the Americans' lunar soil (more precisely, what they claim to be lunar soil) has begun to disappear altogether. In the summer of 2002, a huge number of samples of lunar material - a safe weighing almost 3 quintals - disappeared from the storerooms of the NASA Museum of the American Space Center. Johnson in Houston.

Have you ever tried to steal a 300 kg safe from the territory of the space center? And don't try: it's too hard and dangerous work. But the thieves, on whose trail the police came out wonderfully quickly, did it easily. Tiffany Fowler and Ted Roberts, who worked in the building at the time of the disappearance, were arrested by special agents of the FBI and NASA in a restaurant in Florida. Subsequently, in Houston, the third partner, Shae Saur, was taken into custody, and then the fourth participant in the crime, Gordon McVater, who helped transport the stolen goods. The thieves intended to sell invaluable evidence of NASA's lunar mission at a price of $ 1000-5000 per gram through the site of the mineralogical club in Antwerp (Holland). The cost of the stolen goods, according to information from overseas, was more than $ 1 million.

A few years later, another misfortune. In the US, in the Virginia Beach area, unknown attackers stole two small sealed plastic boxes in the form of a disk with samples of meteorite and lunar matter from a car, judging by the markings on them. Samples of this kind, according to Space, are being handed over by NASA to special instructors "for training purposes." Before receiving such samples, teachers undergo special instructions, during which they are trained to properly handle this US national treasure. And the "national treasure", it turns out, is so easy to steal … Although it does not look like a theft, but a staged theft in order to get rid of evidence: there is no soil - there are no "inconvenient" questions.

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