Part 3: The Curious case of the Militant Shuttle

     It is time for a little history lesson to put some stuff in perspective. While we have been screwing around with Operation: Paperclip stuff, something else was beginning to stir in the MIL-FACT long before the Dyna-Soar, The MOL project, even the Space Shuttle. It is important to understand the bureaucracy involved and the fact that there are, and has always been, sections of the government that have existed without many people knowing about them that are specifically related to the “secret” space program.
     We will be jumping around through time here from bit to bit – please bare with me.
     It is important at this time to remember my mentions and ramblings on the discovery of the “special location” in the Grand Canyon, which is now considered as a black area by our government, and then of course visited by every sitting president since then either covertly or openly. Added now, if I haven’t in the past, is an interesting correlation between the constellation Orion and the location of the “Isis” temple in the Grand Canyon. Of course, I could do an entire blogg post on this subject alone, as it is a significant part of the story about the “secret” space program. For now, however, I will leave you with the location and the map image to add some tantalizing details to what is hidden there, and what was found. Namely to refresh your memory, at first was found not really a temple mind you but a large facility (post Kincaid), an escape “boat” and latter, in a seemingly abandoned hanger in the same integrated facility located in the canyon, what has been called – “The Hot Rod”…

     …oddly enough a pattern of pueblo villages in the state of Arizona mirrors all the major stars of the Orion constellation. No where else on the planet do so many ancient sites mirror a constellation so exactly. I am surprised that this known, scientifically proven fact, has not been more thoroughly explored by mainstream science… …then again old man mason might just shoot you for being in his back yard.

Directly related to Americans getting first in the Air and then into space came all the civilian government organizations and committees that normally show up when something needs to be studied, reversed engineered, and then built into something humans in today’s age can use.

The precursor to NASA was NACA or National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). These guys had been mucking around trying to fly with the “found” specifications from the 1906 “find” in the Grand Canyon. The civilians of the cause created NACA in 1920 and had such facilities as Langley Research Center, and the then called Muroc Flight Test Unit, which was the training center for the Army Air Core. Muroc is now Edwards Air Force Base. NACA tended to be “loose” with its studies (much like another yet secret organization) as this quote demonstrates: “In addition to formal assignments, staff were encouraged to pursue unauthorized "bootleg" research, provided that it was not too exotic.” NACA claims the right to the first supersonic plane, the Bell X-1 (1945), and the first edge of space plane the X-15 (1962) [Both of which look like traditional, "old school/retro space rockets]. So certainly, it would be an understatement to say that very, very early in the 1920’s where taking off and going all out to get up there. NACA finally figured out that they could indeed get up into space and flipped itself into NASA in 1958.
     Then, an another, secretive organization comes along and acts as a middleman for the DOD and all the other three letter organizations. No, it was not SWORD…

Enter the National Reconnaissance Office.

The NRO is part of the Department of Defense and founded in 1960, no one publicly new about them until 1985, and wasn’t even officially acknowledged until 1995 – and only then because there existence was leaked to the media and they where both hoarding money and spending it on black projects that no one new anything about. Aside from working with the CIA, it also has partnerships with the NSA, NGA, they also work with the United States Strategic Command and Naval Research Laboratory. On top of that they also provide imagery to the NAO for law enforement pourposes. Now, for an example of the nutty fun they partake in, these chaps where responsible for the recovery of one of the first photo reconnaissance programs called Corona. Keep in mind folks that these satillites the NRO ran would literlly crap film and drop it into the atmosphere where a plane would recover it mid-flight… …in the 1960’s… There where many satillite reconisance programs that the NRO ran and nevermind the fact that the USAF was messing around at the same time with Samos and MiDAS, whose data is still classified. The NRO has also admited to using high end Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Space Based Radar (SBR) systems. Guess who set up that brillant pieace of media of the satillite that was shot down by a missile fired from a Navy cruiser two years ago (February 21, 2008) that we made such a fuss about? –the NRO. And that’s just what they admit to...

    
     So a major player in the space race was open for buisness in the 1960’s and accesable by no less than five of those pesky three letter acronymed orginizations for twenty five years spending money on black projects like there was no tommarow – and - you never knew about it. Hundreds of people working hand in hand with a black organization working on black projects, and it was kept secrect for twenty-five years. Ohh, and by the way, they have saved up 1.7 Billion dollors for a rainy day fund that no one new anything about untill very recently.


So why the history lesson?

     Because the NRO was heavily invested in the development of the Space Shuttle. Hell, the DOD already had space fighters – now they needed to do some heavy lifting. So in marches the NRO (The DOD middleman) to the NASA offices and dictates some of the specifications to what the production shuttle should be. Keep in mind what the heck is going on here... The MIL-FACT/DOD dictates to the supposed civillian space organization what the shuttle will be, through the NRO. Why? Because they want there own version and want someone else to fund the cost of labor in designing it and taking care of the factory level base frame production. It was about this time that the MIL-FACT was on a “modular” basis. That is meaning of course that the MIL-FACT was looking to standardise parts and equipment... ...and make the parts externally interchangeable. Much easier to fix things if you don’t have five different types of planes that need five different types of tools and five diffrently trained mechanics to keep the fleet up and running.
     The NRO/DOD was heavily involved in not only the design and the construction of the shuttle but also the staffing of personell flying the shuttle. I am not going to go into detail, but of all the astronaunts flying the shuttle what percentage do you think are miltary and what percent are bonified civillians? Hmmmm?

     One particular mission of note is the STS-33 mission – still classified – and its listing on the wiki has some intereting details that the casual observer would miss. Also on the DOD/NRO list of missions of note is the mission STS-51-C. The mission was to park a large signal intelligance satillite (SIGNIT) called of all things … ORION, and it is sitting in geosynchronous orbit, and it has a dish on it 100 yards wide. No one involved with the mission will comment beyond this recent statement from Astronaut Payton: “It’s still up there, and still operating.”
     Now I know I have been sending you off on a bit of a history lesson. Bare with me. If you look at the list of missions – the military was using the “civilian” NASA shuttle with military pilots to deliver there large military loads from the beginning of the program until 1991 when it abruptly ends – which is when the military shuttle program came online. What other explanation is there for the petering off of military missions for the space shuttle?
     What?, the military just shrugged and said, “meh…"
     Now some folk are going to say that is impossible, that too many people would know about it and talk. Well, let’s look at the chain of command for such an endeavor, again, from wiki:

“The United States has organized its military forces into ten unified combatant commands respectively led by a single four star General or Admiral who reports directly to the Secretary of Defense. Six of the unified commands span the globe in terms of different geographical areas. In addition, there are four functional commands where specialized military activities are run by a single “Combatant Commander.” The chain of command runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense to the combatant commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands.”

     So it looks like a whopping total of four people are in the chain of command for any space core. So it goes from the CIC, to the SECDEF to Combatant Commander to the “officer on the ground”. I know, I know, that still doesn’t account for all the affiliated personnel from the flight mechanics to the pilots and including the janitor and his dog, Rosco. But let’s keep in mind that these are military personnel who can be jailed immediately, without trial - indefinitely for even uttering a word. It’s certainly not inconceivable that an extremely large, remote organization could remain hidden for decades – especially if these are specialized military personnel or militia…
     Second of all, folk will say – where in the hell would they hide it? And where would they get the fuel? You need gas right? As I have stated before, Alaska has a long history of being able to support this endeavor, secret launching methods not with standing.

     Alaska has everything you need to keep things under control and out of sight. It’s remote and some could say desolate landscape will keep out even the craziest “ufo hunter”. Alaska is big country, you could have facilities of rather large sizes out of sight, nestled in some valley somewhere hidden and no one would even chance on them accidentally. There’s also plenty of raw oil for the taking, and I mean plenty. Add the “secret” government’s penchant for digging in like a tick and having things they don’t want bombed or seen, like a refinery, and you end up with three major space related facilities hidden in the vastness of the great state of Alaska. We really have nothing to worry about up here, every other ufo nut bag in America is still enthralled by the completely staged counter intelligence spectacle known as Roswell – and – everyone seems to think that Area 51 is the end all be all. Ultimately its easier for the MUFON nit-wits to rent a car and drive to the desert than buy a airplane ticket and then hike several hundred miles into nothing, and we know that.
     Of the military shuttle, they are as differently configured as a military hummer would, mission specific to generic. These things exist – and in greater number than you would think. The Army has at least three that I know of – know of as in seen with my own eyes. The Navy probably has at least twenty, only DOD knows how many the Air Force has. There are several variants. Some are closed with bomb bay doors instead of payload doors. Some have VTOL capability. Some are completely sealed and are used primarily for transportation. The newer variants have a split tail, flatter overall height and squat landing gear. Almost all have a large gyroscope(s) in the front. I’m no scientist but apparently it helps in high speed maneuvers in space.

     Apparently the media has been trying to tell you about it as well. Of course I am referring to our favorite, television show – the West Wing with all its happy little Masonic hints and teases not to mention naming SWORD by name as well. The funny thing is – if ya’ll remember – is that within days of that airing episode dealing with the military shuttle and what the public should know about it there was an unannounced launching of “a military asset” from Vandenberg Air Force Base, [which is – in case you didn’t know – where the military was to receive ownership of the original military shuttles (complete facilities built at the cost of $4B) and the home of the original MOL program and also home to the USAF Space Command.] So, they said it on the air, and then it happened in real life…

     Now why would you want to have such a large lifting capacity? What could you possibly send up on a military shuttle you would not want to be lifted by the “civilian” NASA shuttle? Shuttles are great, but as a hummer is considered a “soft” target, so are the military space shuttle variants. You definitely need something mission specific up there that is armored, and has enough specific weaponry to get the job done and can travel further and faster, something that can do something more than just shore duty. So, is the military, on the kick of modularization going to reinvent the wheel? No.

     Submarines are manufactured in modules. That is, sections of a submarine are made in one place and then shipped to a different location for assembly. What a perfect thing to have in space. It already has the necessary things for survivability in space right from the factory. Several sections at a time can be sent up in the space shuttle. A few simple modifications to propulsion, and bingo, space sub. Hmmmm, I wonder if anyone has posted a link with stuff floating around in space (Saturn address) that look roughly like submarines…
Can you smell what I am cooking?


Coming up next:
Military Space Stations: SWORN to protect?

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