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402 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
Photo 6. A "city" in the center of Crater Kepler
Neil Armstrong: "The sky is black, you know." ; "It's a very dark sky."
Mike Collins on Gemini 10: "My God, the stars are everywhere: above
me on all sides, even below me somewhat, down there next to that obscure
horizon. The stars are bright and they are steady." This was written 14
years later, and remember that the Gemini 10 space walk photo shown
here has now been proven fake.
Mike Collins on Apollo 11: "I can't see the earth, only the black starless
sky behind the Agena [rocket]. . . . As I slowly cartwheel away from
the Agena, I see nothing but the black sky for several seconds. . . ." ;
"What I see is disappointing for only the brightest stars are visible through
the telescope, and it is difficult to recognize them when they are not
accompanied by the dimmer stars. . . ."
Gene Cernan on Apollo 17: "When the sunlight comes through the
blackness of space, it's black. I didn't say it's dark, I said black. So black
you can't conceive how black it is in your mind. The sunlight doesn't
strike on anything, so all you see is black."
Yuri Gagarin, first Russian cosmonaut: "Astonishingly bright cold stars
could be seen through the windows."
Professor August Piccard on his high altitude balloon flight circa 1938
(many miles up with special heated suit) said that the sky turned from blue
to deep violet to black. It is said that he claimed the sun disappeared as he
got to the higher altitudes, though I have been unable to locate this exact
reference.
My own investigations of NASA, circa 1987, revealed people who