The Space Shuttle Scam
@sam Remember the RS-25 engine research? Maybe you don’t—you probably don’t. My uncle led that program (and many others at times as a senior engineer, VP, and president, for defense contractors like Rocketdyne, Boeing Defense, Raytheon, and others). Long story short, the goal wasn’t spectacular civil exploration; it was to develop railguns and directed-energy weapons (like space lasers). In fact, after the space shuttle disaster, the whole civil front was essentially shut down.
Here’s a quote of him talking about it: “It turns out that the amount of heat that goes into the rails is equivalent to the heat that goes into our space shuttle main engine nozzles,” Mr. Paster said. Learning how to cool the space shuttle engine contributes to solving the problem of keeping the rail gun from melting. (Star Wars Technology: It’s More Than a Fantasy, New York Times, March 5, 1985)
And here he is being called out by a Czechoslovak delegate at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament in 1985 citing the New York Times interview above in which R. D. Paster—then Rocketdyne’s Vice President of Advanced Programs—stated “Rocketdyne has been involved in technology in that area for over 10 years.” The delegate seized on my uncle’s admission to expose U.S. claims that the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was “pure research,” tying it to early-’80s laser and directed-energy weapons work. His words were quickly cited abroad as proof that SDI’s foundations long predated its launch, with civil and dual-use aerospace research quietly laying the groundwork—exposing the program as anything but sudden or standalone.
But yes, let’s keep paying NASA to funnel money into the U.S. military-industrial complex. I would never, ever set foot in a publicly funded rocket—unless, of course, I wanted to explode like a giant firework. While the people of the Idiot States of America argue over civil-end conspiracies—like whether we went to the Moon or not—they completely miss the point: it was all about building cutting-edge aerospace directed-energy weapons.
In fact, every single civil space exploration contract has contributed to dual-use research and technology, with weapons-material research as the primary priority and investment. My uncle has a long history in this field dating back to the 1960s, including involvement in the SSFL environmental cover-ups that caused many people to become sick. At the time, his brother (my other uncle) left Monsanto to work for the DOE—an ironic but unrelated development. My uncle was one of the first leaders in beryllium research for nuclear weapons in the 1960s and later, in 1974, authored the report for NASA Contract NAS9-13476.
The so-called scientific consensus of America’s academic elite—along with civilian progressive ideology and “future thinking”—is built on fraud and a scam fueled by Hollywood and the putrid vomit of a corrupted education system. There is no secret sauce beyond the time you put into things, and school is nothing but a massive waste of it. The reality of education under capitalism is truly dark: the lessons we learn are the remnants of privatized research meant for the military–industrial complex, with the forefront of science existing as the trade secrets of corporations. Any public sector of research or education is never permitted to engage with the cutting edge of science without an element of “dual-use” research looming over it—constraining and silencing researchers and educators alike.