One of the issues that many have with NASA is that they only see the science and engineering. Nasa is a huge administration and it has many camps and internal frictions. To give you a brief idea of the sort of things I saw and I was only a contractor, not properly on the inside.
When I was at Nasa Marshall there was one guy who the Marshall chiefs wanted out, so they cut his funding, but he had funding from another part of Nasa and could not be removed. Another Nasa guy gave a lecture on his job being to hide the funding for SETI so that a congressman who wanted the whole project stopped could not find it and destroy it. Others were only interested in their pension and didn’t want to do anything that was not 100% within what they saw as the point of NASA and going back to the moon was not one of them. Intense and relentless politics and personality tussles take place all over NASA. Another example. One researcher was trying to get his project completed and wanted all the welds x-rayed, but someone else had loaded x-ray sensitive film into the experiment stopping the x-raying but without x-ray the project could not fly. There were countless examples of little power struggles like that endless rolling around Nasa.
Well above all of this was the political level where various senators and representatives were focused on getting as much Nasa spending in their state and this all interacted with the lobbying by the various defence contractors. When the Shuttle was proposed it was said that it would be so low cost to go to orbit that it would be routine to send graduate students there to do experiments, but it was never low cost and graduate students stayed on earth.
It is my opinion, this will surprise no one, that Elon Musk is the force that has caused the Nasa explorers to gain a dominance over the Nasa, stay on Earth folk. Without him I don’t think we would see Nasa trying, but because of him enough folk in Nasa got enough power to get the program going and then it was sabotaged by congress demanding the use of last century technology.
I have no clue what is going on, but I don’t think what we believe we know about human government and what it really is are compatible. E.g. the evidence for non human craft in the skies of earth is over whelming and if you look at the web site of the airdomainintelligence one sees something interesting in their emblem, bottom left:
https://www.airdomainintelligence.mil/This is clearly a cartoon image of a flying saucer. Why is it there, what does it mean? Why has the US navy forbidden the release of more UAP images and video?:
https://www.wionews.com/world/us-navy-w ... ore-515069We may never know what is the reason for the return to the moon. There are times when I fear that there are forces at large that will stop a return to the moon from happening in just the same way that they have stopped realease of information that would confirm UAP are alien.
We live in interesting times.
Regards,
