Rene-NASA-Mooned-America

Sunstroke /Chap. 15 p. 125
SUNSTROKE
This section has been in constant revision from the first day I began to write it during the
beginning of December 1992. What was needed was a combination solar physicist, nuclear
engineer and medical doctor who specialized in radiation poisoning. Unfortunately, I
couldn't find such a person so we are stuck with each other.
I requested the solar data from NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
for the years of the Apollo missions to the Moon because I hoped to find just one big
X-ray and proton exuding flare that took place during any one of the missions. We would
have heard about cooked astro-nots, right
I felt I didn't dare reveal why 1 wanted this information, so being the clever devil I am, I
wrote to the Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, Colorado with an invented story about
correlating solar flares with some concise weather records my grandfather had left me. Heh!
Heh!
The NOAA people were polite and prompt. Mr. McKinnon sent me some pamphlets and
disks with compressed data which my computer couldn't read. I had a friend explode them to
find the data columns were over 83 columns wide. However, these columns had no headers.
Have you ever seen data columns without headings Neither have I.
I copied the data for those time periods onto new files to play with. I tried for two long
days to locate the columns containing the X-ray data and failed. This column contains only
the letters C, M, and X and I should have found it even without the headers. I finally called
Mr. McKinnon and bluntly asked for the column numbers for the X-ray and proton data. I
was glibly sidetracked and then told that I would receive more information.
While waiting for NOAA's promised package I tried again and again to determine the X-
ray data. I finally came to the conclusion that NOAA was a more clever devil than I and had
cooked the files. That's difficult to accept because this was scientific data that had little to do
with the space shots. It's the sort of data that regularly goes to universities and scientists all
over the world, plus to companies that operate air lines, power plants, radio and TV stations
and telephone systems.
This premise seemed too far out, so I had to conclude that if the X-ray data was deleted
there had to be two sets of data, one that would be sent to scientists and organizations on a
preferred list, and the other, sent to casual strangers, like me.
Then I wondered if they eliminated this pertinent data from only those days the astronots
were supposed to be in space. We checked the rest of the disks to find that there was no
X-ray data. While I tried to get the smoking gun (space radiation data) 1 proceeded to
assemble what I had.
The chart below is a monthly list of all solar flares for a period of 25 years from solar
cycles 19, 20, and 21.
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene