http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/05/28/former-astronaut-and-senator-wants-dismantle-nasa/
A quote,
"Schmitt is proposing to start from scratch, by taking NASA's deep space exploration efforts and putting them in a new agency. That agency, which Schmitt has dubbed the National Space Exploration Agency, or NSEA, would focus on missions to the moon and beyond.”
He’s advocating a new agency. A new agency will not change a thing. Unless this agency is totally independent of government control and outside interference. A new agency with new relationships with industry and contractors. Lets build a 24 inch RGB color camera and send it to the Moon. Images totally free from politics.
Apollo 17. Both Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt were working together. Performing actions quietly on the side and documenting these actions with photographs.
A hypothesis. Both astronauts do not remember their experiences on the Moon. Not because of old age, I am talking about when they came back. At the very least, only remember scant details.
A sample of this side activity. Read carefully. Both astronauts, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, are trying to tell us something. After 40 years, this event has not been talked about at all. Question, do they remember this event?
AS17-145-22155
Time frame: 146:44:18 - 146:44:44
Online original
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17-145-22155HR.jpg
Select area enhanced. Our object of interest is still buried - Slight left of center. Note straight ridge.
http://marsesa.9f.com/slide_shows/Apollo_17_Images/AS17-145-22155HRB.jpg
The next image. Object now unearthed and propped up against the larger “flat top” rock.
http://marsesa.9f.com/slide_shows/Apollo_17_Images/AS17-145-22156HRC.jpg
Labeled. Astronaut Harrison Schmitt is in the background.
http://marsesa.9f.com/slide_shows/Apollo_17_Images/AS17-145-22156HRB.jpg
This “rock” does not seem natural. This rock has all the features of something mechanical. A very old, encrusted, and corroded mechanical debris (*). Note vertical slot. It seems there is an outer cover or casing to this object. Note hole on top of this object. It seems this object has been filled in with soil.
For some reason, the astronaut, most likely Harrison Schmitt a professional geologist, quietly scooped up this rock and put it on display. There was something about this so called rock. A rock important enough to treat it in this fashion.
The online journal makes no reference to this action. Nothing was mention at all. This action was done quietly and quickly on the side.
An excerpt of the journal covering this time frame. Time 146:44:18 to 146:44:44 (hrs:mins:secs).
During this time frame - less than 30 seconds, this “rock” was put on display. An action with no indications in the journal. The only actions describe during this time frame are referenced to soil samples.
146:43:42 Cernan: Where are you? You ready to take them back...
146:43:43 Schmitt: I'm back over here. What I want is a sample of this soil off one of these rocks.
146:43:47 Cernan: Okay, let's get that now and then let's get the rake sample. (Pause)
146:43:52 Schmitt: But it looks to me like it's soil that's been thrown up there rather than...(Pause) This rock is about 3 meters in diameter, but it's one of the flat-surfaced rocks. It only stands about - at the most - one-third of a meter high.
146:44:18 Parker: Copy that. (Pause)
146:44:25 Schmitt: But we can get up about a meter from the soil/rock interface and get soil off the rock, I think. (Pause)
146:44:44 Cernan: Okay. See what you can do.
(Using the scoop, Jack skims some soil off the rock, at about knee height. After taking a picture of Jack doing the skimming (AS17-145-22156), Gene opens a bag. Schmitt - "This type of sample would enable you to decide whether dark mantle had been laid down on top of the rocks or whether that material had all just been thrown up there from the regolith surrounding it.")
146:44:49 Schmitt: Whoops, oh, yeah; I got some soil.
146:44:51 Cernan: Don't kick up anything new.
146:44:53 Schmitt: No, that's all right.
146:44:56 Cernan: 455 is that bag number, Bob.
146:44:57 Parker: Copy that
146:44:59 Schmitt: (Pouring the soil) Okay, this is soil from a half a meter in. It's about a centimeter deep and a half a meter in (from the outer edge of the top of the rock). (Pause)
(Jack skims another scoopful.)
There is a very interesting passage from the journal……
146:44:51 Cernan: Don't kick up anything new.
146:44:53 Schmitt: No, that's all right.
This brief interchange occurred immediately after the “rock” was put on display. Basically, Gene Cernan told Harrison Schmitt not to show “anything new”. This “anything new” is a reference not to show anymore non-geological “objects”. Objects of a technological nature.
(*) For an airless, near vacuum, Moon environment, this object shows an excessive amount of corrosion. This corrosion raises questions. Questions concerning the Moons past - either geologically or past technological activity.
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