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- FIRE FROM THE SKY: Battle of Harvest Moon & True Story of Space Shuttles
- by "One Who Knows"
-
- PART 2:
-
- NASA wanted everyone to forget about that mysterious headline-making
- fireball, so they pretended that *Skylab* was still in orbit but sinking
- unexpectedly. NASA used stories about the Space Shuttle as part of their
- *Skylab* cover-up. They pretended that perhaps the Shuttle would come
- along in time to save *Skylab.* This was simply a double lie by NASA.
- First, *Skylab* could never be saved because it had already been
- destroyed. Secondly, the United States was in no position at that time to
- launch the Shuttle or anything else of a military nature into space.
- Russia was deploying her secret new Space Triad of advanced manned space
- weapons.
-
- Russian Cosmos Interceptors had starting sweeping the skies clear of
- American Spy Satellites, and Russian hovering electrogravitic weapons
- platforms, the Cosmospheres, were making headlines by creating enormous
- air booms along the coasts of America, and still do so. All of these
- things took place just as America's Space Shuttle Program was getting off
- the ground.
-
- AMERICAN BOLSHEVIKS - MASTERS OF DECEPTION
-
- The result was a complete reorganization of the Shuttle Program. The old
- plans to bathe it in continuous publicity were tossed. The "Bolsheviks"
- in our government, who had replaced the Rockefeller cartel in many areas
- of power, cast a net of secrecy over all the new military plans. We were
- never told about the capabilities of the training Shuttle *Enterprise,*
- and we were never told about the many things which were going on at White
- Sands in the military Shuttle Program. By keeping these things secret,
- the Bolsheviks placed themselves in a powerful position to deceive us and
- the deceit has continued non-stop.
-
- We were never told about the modified NASA 747 which carried a complete
- replica of the crew quarters and cargo bay of a Shuttle - and still does.
- We were unaware that that airplane, originally intended for training, was
- to become a Bolshevik tool of deception against us. When we saw video
- tapes of astronauts in the simulated Shuttle cockpit, we naturally
- thought it was the real thing. Seeing a notebook float in mid-air for a
- few seconds next to the astronauts, we were supposed to think they were
- weightless because they were in orbit.
-
- We were given no clue that those moments of weightlessness had taken
- place months earlier in a mock-up. Further, what would you do if you were
- an astronaut faced with the fact that Russia has just turned the corner
- and can destroy your nation with one blast? Do you not think that a good
- patriot would go along with the game? However, that brings us to a
- serious problem - perhaps the pictures fooled a lot of Americans and the
- world - they did not fool the new rulers of Russia. They had learned the
- previous fall what the flight of the *Columbia* was really all about and,
- when the *Columbia* was launched on April 12, the Russians were ready and
- waiting!
-
- LAUNCH OF THE COLUMBIA INTO ODD ORBIT
-
- The real mission plan was for a short mission. The astronauts were
- supposed to get into orbit and deploy the military satellite from the
- *Columbia's* cargo bay very quickly; then they were to return to Earth -
- not aboard the Shuttle but in a very special re-entry capsule. Two days
- later they were supposed to land the disguised Shuttle *Enterprise* at
- Edwards Air Force Base as the final act in the falsified drama staged for
- our benefit.
-
- For the first time in three years the Pentagon was hoping to get a Spy
- Satellite into orbit that could not be shot down immediately by Russia.
- This attempt was destined to continue by our nerdniks into disaster
- after disaster.
-
- You must know what happened in the front end to have any idea what
- continues. If you can think back to American space launches of the past,
- some may have noticed something very unusual about the launch of the
- *Columbia.* In the past, manned space launches from Cape Canaveral were
- always made toward the southeast, toward the equator, but not so with the
- *Columbia.* It was launched to the northeast, away from the equator. The
- reason for this was the secret space reconnaissance mission of the
- *Columbia.*
-
- In its public news releases, NASA told everyone that *Columbia* was
- launching into a 44-degree orbit - that is, it would never go farther
- north or south than 44 degrees above and below the equator. But the
- actual orbit chosen for the *Columbia* was a 69-degree orbit. A 69-degree
- orbit was chosen because it would take the *Columbia, and the Spy
- Satellite inside it, all the way north to the Arctic Circle and beyond.
- That is the kind of orbit that is necessary if a spy satellite is to fly
- reconnaissance over Russia.
-
- The northeast launch of the *Columbia* was done in order to enable the
- Spy Satellite to start gathering data over Russia only minutes after the
- *Columbia* reached orbit. Time was of the essence in any attempt to spy
- on Russia. Every American spy satellite launched at Russia during the
- prior three years had been blinded or shot down before gathering much data.
-
- The secret flight plan for the *Columbia* was completely different from
- what NASA claimed in public. The plan called for *Columbia* to be launched
- on an initial northeast course in the general direction of Bermuda, then
- roughly 2-1/2 minutes after launch, *Columbia* was to begin an unorthodox
- course change - a wide sweeping turn into the north. This unprecedented
- curving launch was intended as an evasive sneak past any Russian
- Cosmospheres that might be waiting overhead. Still accelerating on its
- curving course, the *Columbia* was supposed to pass about 100 miles east
- of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Roughly 200 miles east of Washington,
- D.C., the Shuttle's main engines were to cut off. After coasting in
- silence for a few seconds, the fuel tank was scheduled to cut loose as the
- *Columbia passed 100 miles east of New Jersey.
-
- For the next two minutes the Shuttle and its fuel tank were to be
- coasting onward past the east tip of Long Island, over Boston, and onward
- toward Maine. During that time the Shuttle was supposed to maneuver away
- from the fuel tank, using small maneuvering jets.
-
- Finally, just as the *Columbia* passed over New Brunswick, Canada, the
- flight plan called for the orbital maneuvering engines to be fired.
- Somewhere over the Labrador Sea, flying upside-down, the *Columbia* was
- scheduled to reach Earth orbit. As soon as it did so, the flight plan
- called for astronauts Young and Crippen to go to work fast.
-
- COLUMBIA'S SPY MISSION
-
- In less than ten minutes time they were supposed to open up the cargo bay
- doors and turn on the sensors of the Spy Satellite resting inside. As
- they did these things, the *Columbia* was to be racing over the south tip
- of Greenland, out over the middle of the Denmark Strait between Greenland
- and Iceland, above the Arctic Circle, and then dipping back southward
- toward northern Norway, Finland, and Russia. According to the flight
- plan, the *Columbia* was scheduled to cross the Russian border just south
- of the strategic Kola Peninsula. This would be only some less than 23
- minutes after lift-off. At that instant initial reconnaissance over
- Russia was to be under way. The Spy Satellite inside the cargo bay, even
- though not yet deployed, would have had a perfect view downward through
- the open doors of the upside-down shuttle.
-
- The *Columbia* was intended to fly over a course across Russia that began
- just west of the strategic White Sea in extreme Northwestern Russia. From
- there the planned course of the *Columbia* was to take it southeastward
- over some 2500 miles of strategic Russian territory. During the first
- minute alone, the satellite was expected to see parts of the highly
- sensitive Kola Peninsula, the White Sea, including the super secret
- submarine yards near Kazan, one of the bases of Russia's flying ABM
- system. This system uses charged particle beams carried by supersonic
- TU-144 Transports.
-
- Toward the end of the first pass over Russia the Spy Satellite was
- expected to gather data on two more of Russia's four Cosmodromes - those
- of Baiokonur and Tyuratam. In between, numerous other war targets were
- also to come under scrutiny. The spy satellite in the *Columbia's* cargo
- bay was expected to see all that during its very first pass over Russian
- territory. It would all take only 8-1/2 minutes. Then the *Columbia*
- would have crossed the border with Afghanistan, heading toward India.
- Barely 10 minutes later, the Spy Satellite was to be radioing its data
- down to the American receivers at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
-
- Now, that WAS the plan. The military planners were confident that their
- Spy Satellite would get at least this planned first look at Russia. They
- were sure that *Columbia's* curving launch and the short time involved
- would prevent Russia from thwarting the mission. *Columbia* took off from
- Cape Canaveral at 7:00 A.M. Eastern Time, that Sunday morning. By 7:23
- *Columbia* was expected to be over Russia already. By 7:31 *Columbia* was
- expected to be leaving Russian skies, and by 7:45 that same Sunday
- morning the military planners expected to have their first reconnaissance
- data from Russia.
-
- RUSSIANS FOIL PLAN
-
- The plan sounded plausible but the 'planners' were falling victim to the
- very intelligence gap which they themselves created in America years
- before. Russian Intelligence agents were able to learn the general
- outlines of the *Columbia* mission plan some six months prior to launch.
- It is worse today, for there are more KGB agents in the CIA than there
- are "loyal" Americans.
-
- Fully a month before the public roll-out of the *Columbia* at the Cape in
- November of 1980, the Russian Space Command was studying the problem.
- There was no question about one thing: The *Columbia's* mission could not
- be allowed to succeed.
-
- Given even a shred of up-to-date reconnaissance data, the Bolsheviks in
- America were determined to set off a nuclear war. Even so, there was a
- question about the best way to spoil the mission. Several possibilities
- were considered, including sabotage or simply blasting the *Columbia* out
- of the sky. All were rejected because they shared one weakness. Each
- alternative would halt one Shuttle mission, but it would not stop the
- Shuttle Program as a whole, and Russia's goal was to completely shut down
- the Space Shuttle Program.
-
- At last they hit upon the solution. What was needed was a Space Age
- version of the famous U-2 incident of two decades prior. In the waning
- days of the Eisenhower Administration, Russia had publicly accused the
- United States of invading its air space with spy flights. That was before
- the era of Spy Satellites, and invading other countries' air space was a
- serious charge in the eyes of the world.
-
- American spokesmen tried to diffuse the growing furor while carefully
- avoiding a definitive denial of the charges; but the Russians kept it up.
- Finally President Eisenhower became so exasperated that he flatly denied,
- in public, that America was flying spy planes over Russia.
-
- That was exactly what the Russians were waiting for. The Russians
- promptly did what American Intelligence specialists thought they could
- not do - they shot down a high-flying U-2 on a flight over Russia. The
- name of the CIA pilot, the late Francis Gary Powers, filled the headlines
- world-wide overnight. The Russians had made a liar of the President of
- the United States.
-
- A summit had been scheduled between President Eisenhower and Nikita
- Kruschev, but the Russians icily called it off. In studying the
- *Columbia* situation, the Russians decided to make the focus of similar
- nature. After all, all they would need would be to land that Shuttle intact.
-
- Russia protested continuously about the military nature of the Shuttle
- Program, and perceived they would be able to shock the world with the
- truth of it by simply proving it. They would put the crashed Shuttle on
- public display together with its nuclear-powered, laser-firing Spy
- Satellite. The Kremlin liked the plan, and agreed to it. To further
- emphasize the parallels with the 1960 U-2 incident, Russia had recently
- proposed a summit with the United States. The plan was to withdraw the
- summit proposal in protest after shooting down the *Columbia.*
-
- The Russian Space Command went to work several months earlier to get
- ready. They were faced with a big order: to bring down the *Columbia* on
- Russian Territory without totally destroying it. As recently as only a
- year prior it would have been totally impossible to even consider such a
- thing. However, the Russians now had a new space tool to do the job. It
- was the third version of the Russian levitating weapons platform, the
- Cosmosphere. They were and are called "Super Heavies" by the Russian
- Space Command.
-
- "SUPER HEAVIES" MAKE READY
-
- The Russian Super Heavy Cosmospheres were still considered experimental
- in nature but had vast improvements integrated since the early 1980s.
- Even so, by '80/81 the Russians had already built seven of them. In terms
- of volume, they are bigger than the Goodyear Blimp, they are even bigger
- than the biggest dirigibles ("zeppelins") of the '30s. They could carry a
- payload of more than 50 tons, far more than the Space Shuttle; and they
- were equipped with powerful electromagnetic propulsion which could take
- the Cosmosphere all the way to orbital speed. In short, the jumbo
- Cosmosphere was actually Russia's Space Shuttle. It was fully operational.
-
- In order to carry out their attack on the Space Shuttle *Columbia,*
- Russia's entire fleet of seven jumbo Cosmospheres were made ready. Five
- were outfitted with special grappling equipment to enable them to seize a
- very large object in space. The other two were outfitted with neutron
- particle beam weapons. These weapons were the same type as were used in
- the "Battle of the Harvest Moon" in September 1977.
-
- *COLUMBIA* BLASTS OFF
-
- At 7:00 A.M. Sunday morning, April 12, 1981, the rocket engines of the
- Space Shuttle *Columbia* roared to life. Moments later the giant solid
- boosters were fired, and the *Columbia* took off. As it climbed, it
- rolled around and started leaning into the flight path toward space. As
- we watched on television, it rapidly dwindled off into the northeast. The
- solid boosters separated and peeled away to each side. Moments later the
- *Columbia* vanished from the TV screen.
-
- The television scene then shifted to the alleged Mission Control in
- Houston - all of this had been set up well in advance. Yes, I know you
- will find this hard to believe!
-
- The NASA computer-controlled map started tracking the alleged course of
- the *Columbia.* According to the map, *Columbia* was heading out over the
- Atlantic toward Bermuda; but at that moment, free of the solid boosters,
- *Columbia* was already starting its long sweeping curve to the north. One
- hundred fifty miles east of Charleston, South Carolina, Russia's fleet of
- 7 jumbo Cosmospheres were hovering high over the ocean as the Space
- Shuttle approached on its elaborate curving path, upside-down with the
- huge fuel tank on top.
-
- COSMOSPHERES INTERCEPT SHUTTLE
-
- The two Cosmospheres armed with neutron beams closed in on the *Columbia*
- from below and a bit to the rear, where they could not be seen by Young
- or Crippen. The other five jumbo Cosmopheres with their grappling
- equipment, flew in formation above and well behind the fuel tank to be
- out of the line of fire. The Cosmopheres pace the Shuttle until it
- reached a predetermined altitude and speed.
-
- Then the armed Cosmospheres opened up with their neutron beams. Firing at
- point-blank range, each Cosmosphere fired just two bursts from its beam
- weapon, "WHOOMP! WHOOMP!" The first salvo flooded the cockpit area and an
- area near the engines in the rear. Young and Crippen died instantly, the
- neutron radiation having totally disrupted all activity of their nervous
- systems, brains, eyes, and hearts.
-
- At the same time the Shuttle's engines shut down. A fraction of a second
- later, the second salvo flooded neutron radiation into the nose and an
- area beneath the cargo bay. These shots were calculated to derange and
- shut down the *Columbia's* flight computers - that is, all the computers
- except one. The Russians wanted the backup computer to take over and do
- its job - that is, make an emergency automatic re-entry and crash landing
- in Russia. They anticipated that it would do so because the backup
- computer is heavily shielded against radiation. The shielding is a
- material more efficient than lead. It is GOLD!
-
- The Russians fully expected that "Gold Computer," as it is known in
- certain circles, would take over after the engines shut down.
-
- Within some 10 seconds after the engines shut down, the fuel tank, still
- a third full, was automatically cast loose. The Gold Computer was now
- flying the Shuttle. The five jumbo Cosmospheres with grappling equipment,
- fastened onto the fuel tank. Then using their powerful electromagnetic
- propulsion, they veered away with the tank. From its northeasterly
- course, the tank was swerved around over the North Atlantic in a great
- arc until it was heading southeast instead. The Cosmospheres then
- accelerated to orbital speed and cast the fuel tank loose.
-
- Three years prior to this the First Cosmospheres had sen a message by way
- of enormous air booms along America's East Coast. Do you remember hearing
- the discussion on the news about the mysterious "sonic booms" that were
- being heard along the coast? Now Russia's newest Cosmospheres were using
- the Shuttle fuel tank to send a chilling new message to America's
- Bolshevik war planners.
-
- Meanwhile the armed Cosmospheres followed the *Columbia* itself. Having
- had its engines shut down prematurely, the *Columbia* was well below
- orbital speed. It was following a ballistic path, just like an ICBM, into
- the heart of Russia. It looked as though the Russian plan was going to
- work to perfection - but then the unexpected happened.
-
- A NO-WIN SITUATION
-
- One of *Columbia's* deranged computers apparently began to function. The
- brief shut-down had thrown it out of synchronization with the Gold
- Computer, so the two computers apparently did not communicate with one
- another. As the *Columbia* passed over the border of Russia, it was
- flying right-side-up instead of upside-down under control of the Gold
- Computer.
-
- But the other computer opened up the cargo bay doors right on schedule.
- As the Shuttle began to re-enter over Russia, hot air flooded the cargo
- bay. Heat sensors in the Spy Satellite detected the heat build-up, which
- was programmed into the Satellite's computer as a sign of "attack
- damage." Finally, the temperature built up to a critical point,
- activating a self-destruct circuit in the Satellite. The Spy Satellite
- exploded, blowing the *Columbia* to bits.
-
- The Russians had hoped for a crash landing in recognizable form. Instead,
- the *Columbia* ended up in wreckage strewn along a line some 85 miles
- long in central Russia southeast of the City of Kazan and the citizens
- had to be told a research satellite had fallen out of orbit. As it turned
- out, neither the American Bolsheviks nor the Russians got what they
- wanted. But there were destined to be more attempts, each just as foolish
- as the one before it.
-
- END OF PART 2.
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