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Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard – Doug Fast links to Bios: Doug Support The Other Side of Midnight! Many years ago, I had a genius colleague and friend … his name was Krafft Ehricke. Krafft was a key member of Wernher von Braun’s infamous “Peenemunde Rocket Group” — the German scientists and engineers that the US Government brought to New Mexico at the end of World War II, to develop US military rockets under a code name — “Operation Paperclip.” Pursuing a completely (and MUCH more difficult) separate engineering path, Ehricke, decades after Paperclip, “invented” the first successful hydrogen-based rocket engine — which, unlike the alcohol and kerosene-fueled motors of the von Braun group, was much more efficient, making practical both manned and unmanned NASA missions to the Moon, to Jupiter and Saturn … and beyond. But all the while, Ehricke (like von Braun) continued to dream of human […]
Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard Fast links to Bios: David “The Second Space Race” …. “The battle of the Billionaires!” Anyway, that’s how the headlines have been portraying it …. But, is that fair? Thirteen days ago, Richard Branson, well-known British dare-devil billionaire — accompanied by three fellow passengers, and two pilots — rocketed fifty-five miles above the Land of Enchantment, just south of me here in New Mexico, in his uniquely-designed Burt Rutan Virgin Galactic “space plane” … before returning to an historic, graceful landing on the two-mile-long runway of “America’s Spaceport.” Nine days later, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, and his own space company, Blue Origin, in the company of three fellow “astronauts” — including the oldest, and the youngest, humans to ever ventured (if only for a few minutes …) 66.5 miles above west Texas, followed Branson and his Virgin Galactic passengers into the […]
Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard Fast links to Bios: Danny – Stephen – Joseph Help Support “The Other Side of Midnight” “This preliminary report is provided by the Office of the Director … to submit an intelligence assessment of the threat posed by unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and the progress the Department of Defense Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) has made in understanding this threat ….” So begins the official 2021 “Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” — better known historically as– “UFOs.” Notice, even in the first official paragraph, there are NO qualifiers to this “intelligence assessment”; the “UAP” is described unequivocally as “a threat” — to the well-being, if not the very future, of every citizen of the United States! Not a “possible threat” … not a “potential” threat …. Just … a threat. Thus, the Second Era of official US government involvement in […]
Help Support “The Other Side of Midnight” Your Contributions are Appreciated. Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard – Holger – Ron – Timothy Fast links to Bios: Holger – Ron – Timothy – Keith This weekend, the Office of National Intelligence finally released its long-awaited 2021 official Senate Report — “Preliminary Assessment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” — which states, in part: “UAP would also represent a national security challenge if they [UAP] … provide evidence a potential adversary has either developed a breakthrough [but conventionally-fueled] , or disruptive, [full anti-gravity!] technology ….” A verified means of “artificially-controlling gravity” would have implications far beyond simply escaping Earth — or moving vehicles through space in days … on missions that current rocket-driven NASA and DOD technologies take years to carry out; such a true “anti-gravity” breakthrough would open up the means and energies to constructing artificial structures — either on Earth, or […]
Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard – Timothy – Bob – Ron Fast links to Bios: Timothy – Bob – Ron – Andrew – Keith This week, we have TWO ongoing “Martian mysteries” to grapple with — surrounding the continuing unmanned Perseverance mission. The first: “why” has the pioneering “Ingenuity helicopter flight” — originally rescheduled for last Sunday — now been postponed … TWICE? Yes, I know what the NASA “explanation” is: That a “computer timing error” caused a “safety hold” on the attempt to spin the helicopter’s rotors up to full speed, abruptly cutting short a critical “pre-flight rotor test” before the attempted first flight …. But, is that the REAL explanation for the continuing Ingenuity delays? Or … could it be that JPL suddenly “discovered” that something was “wrong” about the atmosphere of Mars itself … as we’ve been pointing out, week after week …? Mystery number two: […]
