johnlear
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Who was the 4th astronaut killed in the Apollo 1 fire?A few years ago I had the honor to meet a real government insider. He had heard of me and he was retired and didn't have long to live. I had to drive 12 hours north of Las Vegas and we met in a large concrete basement type room that was accessed by a steel door, on the ground, in the middle of an empty lot. The gentlemen sat at a plain metal desk and he was using oxygen by a nasal canella. There was maybe 3 or 4 pictures on his wall, one was an old military prop driven fighter. There was nothing however to betray what this man had done in his career.
We exchanged pleasantries and I asked him several questions which he deftly avoided answering. As a matter of fact I began to suspect that I was the victim of some kind of charade.
Then he told me: "I worked on a piece of mining equipment they sent to the moon. It was huge. It covered 2 or 3 acres and was maybe 30 stories high."
He told me that as the project was nearing completion, in the deep south part of our country, he rented an airplane to fly around the piece of mining equipment just to be able to grasp the gigantic size of it.
I asked him how they got the gigantic piece of machinery to the moon and he said he didn’t know. Such are the advantages of compartmentalization of information.
It was obvious he didn't want to tell me anything else so I drove back to Vegas. About a year later I was invited back.
This time he told me four things:
The U.S. had been going to the moon since 1962.
The U.S. had been going to Mars since 1966.
The people on Mars look just like us and the population is about 600 million.
There was a fourth astronaut killed in the Apollo 1 capsule along with Grissom, White and Chaffee.
The gentleman has long since passed on.
I began to research the 4th astronaut story and renewed a contact at NASA that I had made many years ago. After several weeks of badgering I finally got the name of the 4th astronaut.
I began to read every book about the Apollo program that was available. The main question in my mind was “where did the 4th astronaut sit or lay” as it was a very confined area and the average ignorant person would tell me: “There is no way another astronaut could fit in there, they could barely fit 3 astronauts.”
Then I happened to read: Apollo: The Race To The Moon by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox (Simon and Schuster Inc. New York Library of Congress TL789.8.U6A558 1989 ISBN: 0-671-611-1-1) and on page 223 came upon the following paragraph: (a discussion about the day of the fire with Joe Shea, Director of ASPO: “For Joe Shea, the accident’s ironies achieved the dimension of tragedy. Consider the paradox in Shea’s narrow escape, when only a technical hitch kept him from being in the spacecraft during the fire. So lucky for him, it first seems, that they couldn’t hook up the headset in time. So morbid of him, it first seems, to wish occasionally that he had been in the spacecraft after all. And yet if Shea had been in the spacecraft, he would have been sitting in the bay beneath the astronaut couches-down beside the E.C.U. and the netting that probably first caught fire.” “It was better than even chance, he decided, that he would have seen it and have been able to react in time to smother it.” “And I really don’t want to think about it any more”, he said, “because you can’t get any more data.”
The key phrases here are “He would have been sitting in the bay beneath the astronaut couches-down beside the E.C.U.” and “you can’t get any more data.”
The 4th astronaut was a member of NASA’s secret astronaut corps exposed by Gary McKinnon.
NASA’s secret astronaut corps was formed at the same time as the original and publicly known 7 astronauts who flew NASA’s charade/parade of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Space Lab, Space Shuttle etc. while the secret astronaut corps was going back and forth throughout the solar system.
In the seconds after the fire began, the National Security Agency, who has control over everything had cordoned off the area. After the fire was out secret NSA (not NASA) agents removed the body of the 4th astronaut and about 45 minutes later turned the area back over to NASA. The 4th astronauts family was well compensated by NASA for their loss
and have been silent ever since.
It was vital to the “Big Secret” and/or “National Security” that the public never find out about the 4th astronaut because that would lead to questions as to who he was and what he was doing in the capsule with Grissom, White and Chaffee.
What was the 4th astronaut doing there in the capsule with Grissom, White and Chaffee? I don’t know. I suspect that it was he who accidentally caused the fire, as the fire allegedly started down where he was sitting/laying. I suspect he was there in an advisory capacity, just like Joe Shea would have been.
As to the persistent question of whether or not the fire was ‘accidental’ there are those insiders who insist that while NASA didn’t directly “cause the fire to happen”, that they did in fact “let it happen”.
What NASA was concerned with was the outspoken and public criticism by Virgil Grissom who had previously made the comment about Apollo’s readiness, “This things not going to be ready in 2 years. This things not going to be ready in 10.”
Although I personally believe that the Apollo Program Spacecraft did in fact go to the moon I am not convinced as to the exact method they got from a 60 miles orbit of the moon down to the surface and back.
Yes, we are told that they used a rocket engine. But considering that the moon’s gravity is really 65% that of earth’s and considering that the Lunar Lander only had 22,000 pounds of fuel, no, that rocket engine couldn’t have done that alone.
As Linda Howe has said, “Secrets within secrets, in a hall of mirrors, paved with quicksand.”
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