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This book documents Hoagland's (and others') battle for the truth that NASA (and the US government) have been hiding about the moon and Mars. Using NASA's own pictures, Hoagland shows that there are artifacts in both places that the American people have not been informed about by the very people who should have done that. And why have they not? A long-ago report (Brookings) that basically states that the American public should remain ignorant about such things until the powers that be decide that we are ready for that knowledge.
It has been my observation that the US government will do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, however it wants, to whoever it wants in order to achieve their own ends -- whether that is in the public's interest or not. Hoagland takes NASA (and the government) to task about their interests regarding 'the final frontier'. Since Hoagland has some high credentials, his book cannot be lightly dismissed.
It is my hope that this book will spur those in power to at least be forthright about NASA and their space missions (that's the most I can expect them to be forthright about anything).
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IT's a little hard to read, but at the same time very descriptive af the situation.
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I highly recommend this book, which provides a much needed corrective to the official history of NASA. This book highlights the way in which a small number of highly determined individuals can "highjack" an agency, or a republic. Gore Vidal has been telling us for years that every republic turns into a tyranny eventually. Well, it seems from this book, and others, that these events were underway when President Eisenhower made his famous speech warning against the influence of the military/industrial complex, and have only accelerated since then.
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I was hoping for a meaty historical review of NASA's errors and mis-judgments. This would have been useful as a list of not-to-do's.
What the book is about in the main is subjective interpetation of geographical features and photographic anomalies which I found to be difficult to follow and visualize.
There may be a core of truth somewhere in this book, but I did not locate it.
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Many of the serious factual errors in this book have been detailed in previous reviews here, and in comments on previous reviews. All readers are cautioned that this book has nothing in common with a scientific investigation, and the authors' methods rely on speculation and a desire to create scandal rather than any rational analysis of observed phenomena.
The book alleges, among other crackpot ideas, that failures of Mars Observer (1993), Mars Polar Lander (1999) and Mars Climate Orbiter (1999) were not technical accidents, as has been lavishly documented (see, for example, Wikipedia articles on each of these missions) but contrived sabotage by persons or agencies interested in preventing high-resolution photography of the planet. My question to the publisher, Adam Parfrey, is "Do you believe this?" If the answer is No, please see that this wretched and mendacious book is corrected. If the answer is Yes, please review James Oberg's excellent essay on the topic.
Having done so, please reconsider whether your authors are writing truth or their personal paranoid fantasy. And please note that Mike Bara has written that he will not contest Oberg's account.
My further question, if you say you believe what this book claims, is this: If the saboteurs had the means and the motive to prevent photography by Observer at a resolution of 1.41 m/pixel, why did they allow the exact same camera system, MOC, to succeed when on board Mars Global Surveyor four years later? Why did they permit photography of Mars at a resolution nearly five times better by the HiRISE telescope on board Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2006)? Answers in comments to this review, please.
*Mets 2nd baseman José ValentÃn is the current career record-holder for major league errors, 273
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