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the first astronaut suits and America's hidden space history
If you stop in at the Air and Space Museum, in D.C., and look at the labels on the earliest Mercury astronaut space suits, the first thing you notice is that they?re designed and built by private companies, just like these future ones being proposed.
Before he died, my father knew one of the designers of these first astronaut suits. He met the fellow when he was working in the oil / petrochemical industry after this gentleman was laid off at the end of the Apollo program.
When I was 8 years old this fellow, that my father knew, got me a private meeting with Allen L. Bean, the first resident astronaut here in the state of Texas. I looked like a little girl as I had long hair at the time.
The story was that this man was the person who made NASA what it is today. That is, when LBJ signed the papers to turn what was once NACA into NASA, by buying the land that the LBJ (Johnson) Space center sits on, (and consolidating what was once spread out all over the Houston, Texas area) this fellow was supposed to have been a friend of LBJs at the time, and took care of finding the land and getting it purchased.
The story was that this fellow, part of his job, was to be friends not only with every astronaut, from the first one to the end of the end of the Apollo mission, but to also be friends with their families.
With the astronaut visit that this fellow arranged for me, when I was 8, at the LBJ facility, I was given a tour by one of the managers of that plant. He showed me around the Astronaut?s quarters building; building number four. One of the rooms that I took photos of, was the small film viewing room where the astronauts watched films. On one side wall were four framed astronaut photos. On the opposite wall three framed astronaut photos hung.
These photos represented the seven astronauts who died before the first Space Shuttle disaster. Most of us remember the story of the three that burned up on the pad from a spark in an over-oxygenated space craft; but what about the other 4 dead astronauts?
The aforementioned astronaut suit designer told my father that a couple of these four astronauts died in a sub-orbital flight that went wrong; that he gave the order to launch. The official story, to this date, is that these men all died in trainer jet accidents.
To date I have never found anyone who even could acknowledge my father?s friend?s existence; let alone the story that he told my father; which my father told me.
Many of you reading this will believe that everything I?ve said is a lie. I don?t blame you for doing so. I would probably also given the tables being turned.
This sort of reminds me of when I use to work at Compaq, near the beginning of that company. I told this one young lady that I worked in the movie industry some times doing stunts. She didn?t believe me of course.
Then one day I was doing some extra driving with the second unit (stunt team) on a motion picture in downtown Houston, Texas. And I jumped out of the car during a break and saw that same girl standing there with her huge boyfriend.
She said that she thought I was lying when I had originally told her about my occasional stunt work.
It?s amazing how you can tell someone the truth; but they never believe you.
Sincerely;
Mike Beaver
http://www.profoundstates.com
Before he died, my father knew one of the designers of these first astronaut suits. He met the fellow when he was working in the oil / petrochemical industry after this gentleman was laid off at the end of the Apollo program.
When I was 8 years old this fellow, that my father knew, got me a private meeting with Allen L. Bean, the first resident astronaut here in the state of Texas. I looked like a little girl as I had long hair at the time.
The story was that this man was the person who made NASA what it is today. That is, when LBJ signed the papers to turn what was once NACA into NASA, by buying the land that the LBJ (Johnson) Space center sits on, (and consolidating what was once spread out all over the Houston, Texas area) this fellow was supposed to have been a friend of LBJs at the time, and took care of finding the land and getting it purchased.
The story was that this fellow, part of his job, was to be friends not only with every astronaut, from the first one to the end of the end of the Apollo mission, but to also be friends with their families.
With the astronaut visit that this fellow arranged for me, when I was 8, at the LBJ facility, I was given a tour by one of the managers of that plant. He showed me around the Astronaut?s quarters building; building number four. One of the rooms that I took photos of, was the small film viewing room where the astronauts watched films. On one side wall were four framed astronaut photos. On the opposite wall three framed astronaut photos hung.
These photos represented the seven astronauts who died before the first Space Shuttle disaster. Most of us remember the story of the three that burned up on the pad from a spark in an over-oxygenated space craft; but what about the other 4 dead astronauts?
The aforementioned astronaut suit designer told my father that a couple of these four astronauts died in a sub-orbital flight that went wrong; that he gave the order to launch. The official story, to this date, is that these men all died in trainer jet accidents.
To date I have never found anyone who even could acknowledge my father?s friend?s existence; let alone the story that he told my father; which my father told me.
Many of you reading this will believe that everything I?ve said is a lie. I don?t blame you for doing so. I would probably also given the tables being turned.
This sort of reminds me of when I use to work at Compaq, near the beginning of that company. I told this one young lady that I worked in the movie industry some times doing stunts. She didn?t believe me of course.
Then one day I was doing some extra driving with the second unit (stunt team) on a motion picture in downtown Houston, Texas. And I jumped out of the car during a break and saw that same girl standing there with her huge boyfriend.
She said that she thought I was lying when I had originally told her about my occasional stunt work.
It?s amazing how you can tell someone the truth; but they never believe you.
Sincerely;
Mike Beaver
http://www.profoundstates.com
Posted by yoda226us2
28th Jan 2010