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From: Don Ledger <dledger.nul> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 20:34:23 -0400 Archived: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:59:43 -0400 Subject: Re: NASA Commissions Book To Prove Moon Landing >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2.nul> >To: ufoupdates.nul >Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:43:58 EST >Subject: Re: NASA Commissions Book To Prove Moon Landing >>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99.nul> >>To: ufoupdates.nul >>Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 22:37:38 +0000 >>Subject: Re: NASA Commissions Book To Prove Moon Landing >>>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2.nul> >>>To: ufoupdates.nul >>>Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:28:05 EST >>>Subject: Re: NASA Commissions Book To Prove Moon Landing ><snip> >>>NASA has always been a publisher of books and other educational >>>materials disseminating the fundings of space research. Who do >>>you think wrote those books? Authors. >>I assume by "fundings" you meant to say "findings," >Dick, >Yes, sorry, my index finger just twitched. >>but please give me the title of one (1) (uno) BOOK that NASA (as an >>organization; not some past NASA employee) authored. >I believe that I said, "publisher", and that "authors" wrote >them. >>Technical reports, sure (I am a past technical editor of many U.S. >>Government reports). But to the best of my knowledge, not books >Well, I just grabbed one off of my shelf, "On Mars - Exploration >of the Red Planet 1958-1978", published by NASA as part of the >NASA History Series. It's authors are Edward Clinton Ezell and >Linda Neuman Ezell, the former a curator at the Smithsonian and >the latter a Graduate student at George Washington Univ., at the >time of publication. Edward Ezell had been historian at the >Johnson Space Flight Center beginning in 1980. >The work is a hefty 535 page paperback, which certainly >qualifies as a "book" as far as I can tell. On the last page is >a list of 22 other books published in the series. >>and especially not on controversial subjects. >Well, it covered the issue of whether the Viking science >experiments really found evidence of life or just chemistry, >citing Gil Levin for the latter and other participants for the >consensus. >One can't get much more controversy than that - in science that >is. "Did the experiment find life or didn't it?" ><snip> >>You do not seem to be aware of Charles Fort and >>his writings and world view. Are you? >I am familiar with the genre. One of the NASA history series, on >NASA sounding rockets, was authored by William R. Corliss. I've >got a couple of his forteana-packed volumes. They make good >bookends for my shelf of UFOria authored by people like the >late, great Donald Menzel, Uncle Phil, Bob Sheaffer, Ray Craig, >Allan Hendry, Otto Bilig, Sagan, Ol' Doc Condon - my, my they >just goes on and on. Hi Bob, There's nothing to it, but I'm not supposed to reach a conclusion for another year. Best, Don Ledger
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