(Melchizedek Communique, MC121609) The sacred cow of NASA cannot be touched. The "Climategate" story, displaced from mainstream news for two weeks by the love life of a golfer, finally could no longer be ignored. But only the East Anglia Climate Research Unit would be allowed into the light. Yet how wide, and how deep, do the tentacles of "Climategate" really go?

Now, "It's a Climategate Christmas." That is the title of a video parody of the Climategate scandal released by Minnesotans for Global Warming.

But do the Minnesotans for Global Warming dare to laugh at NASA? Data records used to support claims of "global warming" are under suspicion. In 2007 Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit blog had identified serious inconsistencies in one such data record -- the GIStemp record at NASA, run under the auspices of Al Gore's favorite scientist James Hansen. [1]

NASA has been caught making exaggerated claims. Late in 2008, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies reported that October 2008 was the hottest on record. They "corrected" the statement after two meteorologists caught the "error" in the data and posted their findings on the internet. [2]

Maybe the weather is changing, since it does that. But it is a leap from the changing weather to "mankind is responsible." Do not confuse the two issues: (1) if the climate is changing; and (2) if humankind is responsible for the climate to be changing, about which fudged data has lately caused doubt.

Federal law allows NASA to arrest, without a hearing, anyone who touches a "UFO". [3] Does "UFO" mean, among other things, "Unreported Fudged Observations"? Is it dangerous to touch the sacred cow of NASA?

What exactly is NASA? How much taxpayer dollars are funneled into the "space agency" each year? Does Congress have any oversight of NASA? Why is the mainstream media afraid to question the agency?

Yes, NASA went to the moon, "but neither in the manner that NASA have claimed as set out in the historical record, nor with the individuals named in the historical record." [4]

NASA is a militaristic organization run on a "need-to-know" basis. "The vast majority of those involved at NASA and the space program as a whole (are/were) entirely ignorant of what was going on at the highest levels." [4]

The Apollo 11 "lunar landing" was conducted in parallel with a secret lunar landing which actually occurred. The true picture which emerges is that while Apollo 11 only orbited the Earth, the Soviet Luna 15 spacecraft proceeded to the moon. This Soviet "Soyuz" craft had hooked up with the orbiting Apollo, and the Lunar Module was piggy-backed to Luna 15. Inside the Soyuz vehicle, a Russian cosmonaut (probably Pavel Belyayev) was the "taxi driver" for a secret mission transporting a surrogate American astronaut. This unacknowledged American astronaut, "Astronaut X", would be the human guinea pig who actually set foot on the moon. [4]

Astronaut X wasn't likely to return. Van Allen Belt and lunar radiation would be sure to limit his days. (Pavel Belyayev, the probable Russian "taxi driver," did return from the secret mission, but died soon thereafter.) On the moon, Astronaut X took photos and transmitted them back to Earth. These were the "real photographs of the lunar surface that very few human beings would ever see." [4]

Did Astronaut X return from the moon? It is possible that he returned to the Lunar Module and prepared to depart. "Only those that know can say whether it was ever intended for him to return." [4]

In the late 1950s/early 1960s, the race for space was impelled by a great sense of urgency. (Like the "global warming", there was "the urgency of now.") The cover story was that the urgency was a race against the Soviets for control of space. This hid the true, unknown urgency, which caused hasty cooperation between the competing super-powers. The urgency to get to the moon vanished as quickly as it had arisen. Whoever Astronaut X truly was, he may have accomplished his secret mission. [4]

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[1] "Climategate: the lawyers move in – those scientists are toast!", by James Delingpole. Telegraph (U.K.) blogs, Dec. 15, 2009
[2] "Climategate's Stubborn Facts", by Dexter Wright. American Thinker, Dec. 16, 2009
[3] Secrets in the Fields, by Freddy Silva. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing, 2002
[4] Dark Moon, by Mary Bennett and David S. Percy. Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited, 2001. ISBN: 0-932813-90-9