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| Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA | 
 enlarge | Authors: Richard C. Hoagland, Mike Bara
Publisher: Feral House
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (108 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3897
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 550
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 1932595260
Dewey Decimal Number: 500
EAN: 9781932595260
ASIN: 1932595260
Publication Date: October 16, 2007
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For most Americans, the word NASA suggests a squeaky-clean image of technological infallibility. Yet the truth is that NASA was born in a lie, and has concealed the truths about its occult origins. Dark Mission documents this seemingly wild assertion. Why is the Bush administration intent on returning to the moon as quickly as possible? What are the reasons for the current ?space race? with China, Russia, even India? Remarkable images reproduced within this book provided to author Richard C. Hoagland by disaffected NASA employees provide clues why, including information about suppressed lunar discoveries. Mystical organizations quietly dominate NASA, carrying out their own secret agendas behind the scenes. This is the story of men at the very fringes of rational thought and conventional wisdom, operating at the highest levels of our country. Their policies are far more aligned with ancient religions and secret mystery schools than the facade of rational science NASA has successfully promoted to the world for almost fifty years. Dark Mission is proof of the secret history of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the astonishing, seminal discoveries it has repeatedly suppressed for decades. Richard C. Hoagland is the former science advisor to CBS News, author of The Monuments of Mars, and a frequent guest on the popular radio programs Coast To Coast and The Art Bell Show. Mike Bara is a consulting engineer for Boeing aircraft. This is his first book.
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 There will always be naysayers November 17, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
It never ceases to amaze me how throughout time, no matter what the subject, no matter what the evidence, there are those who have a mental block to anything other than what our government has told us. I chuckle sometimes, but then realize just how powerful we could be, and how we could eliminate all pain and suffering if we could open our minds to different possibilities. All one has to do, is look at our past, and see how there has always been groups controlling other groups, and while not so in the open today, power still remains the ultimate goal for some. It's at work all around us, so to deny that it exists is to be blind. I could care less about calculations that don't match up...Hoagland's pieces of information fit well into the puzzle of information from other sources. The information that we don't understand today, will become very understandable and clear in the very near future. I hope people will find a way to be more open-minded soon, because those are the people that will hold us back when we will need to join together for the greater good of all.
 Deceiving Title................................... November 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I saw the title of the book, I was hoping that it would be a more overall history of NASA covering up any UFO information, sightings by astronauts during their flights, etc. While it does very briefly touch on these subjects, most of the contents deals exclusively with the "Face" on Mars, and the so called "City of Cydonia",and crystal structures on the moon, which were supposedly "revealed" in the book by absolutely worthless photos that showed nothing..................
Vast sections of the book are too technical for most readers, who will become restless and skip over whole chapters as I did.
I'm not ruling out the existence of alien structures on Mars or elsewhere, and there eventually might be something to this subject, but this book didn't have it.
Disappointing November 10, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I waited months for the release of this book and was excited when it arrived. However, as I began wading through the pages and pages of technical information, with blurry pictures, and a poorly organized presentation; I finally gave up about half way through the book. While I am extremely open-minded and have no problem accepting some of the concepts (glass structures above the moon), I wish the authors would have hired a good editor to present the information in such a way that a non-scientific person could understand it. Maybe a revised edition could accomplish that.
 Bad arguments, tenuous "theories, BAD SCIENCE October 25, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is rife with grammatical and spelling errors, which to me is just unprofessional and unacceptable in a published, $25 book. My reaction to Hoagland's writing is that he is an ego-maniac because he thinks that everyone is out to foil his "research" (even other Cydonia research colleagues that disagreed with him) and that his "research" scared THEM so much, that THEY would purposely try to destroy a $300M mission to Mars. Even when NASA gives him the data he wants, there's a conspiracy because it was too convenient and they are trying to confuse the public. NASA is definitely damned if you do and damned if you don't in Hoagland's eyes. His arguments are weak and rely very much on interpretation on the personal level and on flimsy coincidences. His geometric 19.5 deg angles (which he highly focuses on in the book) drawn on images of Cydonia can be any angle from 15-21 deg depending on where you choose to have vertices on the "Face" and the "D&M Pyramid" (pg. 388). He mocks other Cydonia research teams because they had totally "absurd scientific position(s)" that weren't at all different than any position he had earlier in the book; just in this case he saw it a different way ("Letters from Mars", pg. 312).
Here is one big inaccuracy that highlights the either misleading or just incompetent nature of Hoagland's arguments: Figure 4-45 on page 198 (also repeated as color Figure 6). The actual graph shows the ABSORBANCE vs. the wavelength of light for a gold film, yet Hoagland just renames the graph as the "Gold Film Spectral TRANSMISSION Curve". Absorbance and transmission are two opposite phenomena (i.e. the higher the absorbance of a material (A), the lower its transmission (T), specifically A = log(1/T) ). Hoagland states that NASA "claims" that a gold coating is used on the astronauts' glass visor on their helmets to protect astronauts from UV light. Well, this is exactly what the gold coating does as it has high absorbance in the UV range (i.e. low transmission of UV light). But because Hoagland incorrectly interpreted the graph as "Transmission", he argues that the gold coating actually "enhances" UV light to allow the astronauts to better see the UV scattered light off of the Moon's "glass ruins". Hoagland can't even get basic scientific terminology right; or he is being deliberately misleading. However, I believe he just doesn't understand, because if he was trying to be misleading he wouldn't be too smart for leaving the absorbance axis labeled that way in the published figure.
This book, while having some interesting pictures and somewhat entertaining explanations (as in, "what is this guy smoking?"), was a complete waste of time. It left me frustrated, because I've seen so many people willing to take Hoagland's evidence as hard scientific fact; I fear for the intellectual future of society. But, if you're the die-hard conspiracy believer, nothing I can point out will stop you from your belief that "they are hiding something". As they say, you can't convince a conspiracy theorist that the sky is blue, even if they were looking straight up on a clear, sunny day. Please, just don't drag respectable science down.
 "Technical, But Intriguing" October 4, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Highly technical, but ultimately well worth the purchase price... however, it raises a host of new questions regarding NASA's TRUE purposes behind missions to both the moon and Mars.
Obviously thoroughly researched, this book is quite frankly critical of NASA, and will surely create doubts in the minds of readers concerning the nearly-sacred status of that agency. NOT light reading!!
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