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FX Pictures / Chap. 1 p. 13<br />

The Shadow Shows<br />

This unbelievable picture, allegedly taken from the Apollo 11 command capsule, is the<br />

apex of chicanery. Despite this, I have seen it in at least three books including Collins'<br />

Carrying The Fire, where he claims that the picture is of the Sea of Tranquility and shows<br />

the landing zone. The shadow in the lower left corner is supposed to be from the engine<br />

shroud whose diameter is 8.5 feet as it orbits 69 nautical miles (79 statute miles) above the<br />

Moon. A few readers have told me that this shadow's shape matches the LEM's small<br />

directional thrusters which are 6 inches in diameter. I agree!<br />

The sun, however, has a diameter and the rays emitted from either side of it tend to<br />

cancel out sharp or definite shadows in some distance considerably less than 79 miles.<br />

Commercial airliners that are ten times larger fly a few thousand feet over our heads, yet no<br />

one ever sees a definitive shadow. Apparently we have an astronaut who casts no shadow<br />

and an engine nozzle or, worse yet, a small thruster that casts a shadow over 79 miles away.<br />

What kind of a wondrous place is this Moon of ours<br />

7/20/69 <strong>NASA</strong> NO. AS11-37-5437<br />

<strong>NASA</strong> MOONED AMERICA! / <strong>Rene</strong>

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