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In article <4586@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us  
writes:
> 
> 
>     Well  ,  it  sounds  like the willingness to cling to some kind of  
la-la
>    land belief that our  government  wouldn't  lie  to  us  about  the   
moon
>    landings  won't  just  melt  in  the  face of straightforward  
,elementary
>    mathematics ,and piles of circumstantial evidence.


 . . . and so on.

     So how do you explain my father's first cousin, who recently retired  
as an equipment inspector for NASA, and who was one of the last people to  
see the astronauts through the door of nearly every flight from the first  
Mercury missions to many of the early Space Shuttle flights, as it was his  
job to check the seals on the capsule door??  He saw them launch and saw  
them return, and you can't very well "fake" the launch of something the  
size of a Saturn V rocket, especially to someone who was closely involved  
in its construction and launch.
     Dad's cousin is NOT what you would call a government stooge, either.   
I have met with him personally, and know that he is not pulling one over  
when he tells what he did during those years.  Those rockets DID launch,  
the astronauts WERE in them when they launched.  If this was all a scam,  
then what happened to the rockets and the men inside them??

	Also, in regards to the men only jumping 18" or so on the moon.   
Can you honestly say that if you were standing ON THE MOON, with the only  
thing protecting you from a rather nasty death by fast decompression to  
vacuum, and never having been there before, having no idea what it is like  
to be in 1/6 gravity without having to be under the stress of some form of  
simulator or whatever, can you HONESTLY say that you would try some  
half-assed stunt like jumping really high or doing backflips??  EVEN IF  
YOU (academically) KNEW YOU VERY WELL COULD???  What if you landed wrong  
and twisted an ankle, 38,000+ kilometers from home?  Or worse, what if you  
fell on a rock and tore a hole in your suit??
	This, by the way is a good argument for a 185-lb suit.  At the  
time, they didn't have kevlar and carbon composites and other  
high-strength lightweight materials.  They also had no real idea what they  
were sending those poor boys into.  So they sacrifice light weight for  
high strength.  Makes sense to me.


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			By your leave,
			
				Mark S. Underwood
				Electrical Engineering Student
				University of Kentucky
				msunde01@mik.uky.edu