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Bird Hiding
MORE OF THE SAME ON BIRD HIDING, BUT IT REALLY IS SINKING IN NOW, THE TRUTH IN IT ALL, IS IT NOT?
From Craig Nelson's highly regarded Penguin publication Rocket Men, 2009. Collins and Aldrin themselves provided details to the author for this book. With regard to Collins' hunt for the Eagle and its status as a lost bird, from the book's page 290("pings" is PGNS, "aggs" refers to the AGS and Earth tracking stations are the powered flight processor/MSFN solutions for the Eagle's landing site coordinate determination sources);
"For the rest of the day Collins spent countless hours peering through the sextant, trying to pinpoint his crewmates landing spot. He never could determine where the Eagle was, exactly, nor could Houston. Eagle's pings reported that it was north of the originally intended site; aggs indicated that it had landed in the middle; and the tracking stations back on planet Earth insisted it was to the south."
GEEWHIZ!!!! For such a hot shot author, one would think Craig Nelson could have gotten his facts straight on this, especially having access to Collins and Aldrin as he did, not to mention pretty much everyone else of import involved in the Apollo 11 Simulated Mission to Land a Man on the Moon. And here we are, with simple dumb blind beginner researcher's luck, just opened up the Apollo 11 Mission Report and found all 3 solutions Craig Nelson referenced above; pings/PGNS, aggs/AGS and tracking from Earth/Powered Flight Processor were actually in agreement. Silly us, getting something so complicated right almost without even trying. All 3 solutions not more than 4 tenths of a mile from one another and ultimately found to be solutions all very very close to the Eagle's true simulated landing site at 00 41' 15" north and 23 26' 00" east. Should we call up Craig Nelson, email him, write him and tell him to fix his book? Guess he could for the next edition, say he was wrong in this one, that the Apollo 11 Mission Report actually showed the PGNS, AGS and Earth tracking all located the Eagle to the south and west of its simulated mission targeted landing site, and all 3 solutions actually did track it to having touched down close to the finally acknowledged official site at 00 41' 15" north and 23 26' 00" east. Shall we call the guy and help the poor dumb shmuck? Seems like we do a better job advising him than the astronauts themselves did with regard to this sort of thing. GEEEE! I wonder why?!
Naive authors like Nelson are not much to blame for this type of thing, as foolish as they do look. They are intentionally steered in the "wrong direction". This sort of finding emphasizes the importance of researching critical points on one's own and also the point about how popular authors are subtly manipulated, very indirectly, but very effectively nevertheless, to cover the holes in this bogus tale. There is no mystery about the PGNS, AGS and MSFN tracking of the Eagle. Craig could not have been more wrong, and he could have seen this by reading the Apollo 11 Mission Report for himself and checking with NASA to confirm the substance of the report's details as regards the Eagle's tracking. Instead, he wrote something somebody told him. Something that is obviously false, and intentionally so. It is a description of the Eagle's tracking issue/problem with respect to the PGNS, AGS, and MSFN solutions that is intended to deceive and support this absurd notion that no one knew where the Eagle was, that it was "lost".
Here is more from Craig Nelson's book that everyone will enjoy, though may also find to be more than a bit confusing. Also from page 290, just following the quote above. The "data" the author is referring to in the first sentence below is the very data referenced above, the landing site position as determined by PGNS, AGS and Earth tracking;
"Using this data, NASA mapping scientist Lou Wade and his team plotted fourteen possible landing points, while a band of geologists, using Armstrong's description of the terrain, insisted there was only one possible answer; West Crater. They sent NASA their reasoning, but it wasn't taken seriously at Mission Control. On July 21 at 8:30 a.m. CST, Collins radioed from Columbia, "You've given up looking for the the LM, right? and Houston replied, "Affirmative."
In fact, the geologist team would be off by a mere two hundred meters."
Boy sure is too bad no body was paying attention to the geologists. Never is good to give up on stuff is it? Especially giving up on looking for space ships, might strand your guys somewhere you know.
Guess it wouldn't matter though all that much if the manned landing part was all make believe so as they could park their military equipment and what not up there. Not like anyone's life was genuinely at risk you know.
My favorite quote, Michael Collins from the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing Report, Section 11.3, on Landmark Tracking. With reference here to the Eagle's location, Michael Collins;
"The problem was I didn't know where the LM was, and the ground didn't either. There is too much real estate down there within the intended landing zone to scan on one, two, three, or four passes. On each pass, I could do a decent job of scanning one or two grid squares on the expanded map. That map is the 1:100,000 map called LAM 2. The ground was giving me coordinates in the grid square coordinate system that were as much as 10 squares apart. This told me they didn't really have much of a handle at all on where the LM had landed."
Don't feel bad Mike. You didn't know where the Eagle was. The ground didn't know where the Eagle was. Matter of fact, nobody had "much of a handle at all on where the Eagle had landed" as you like to say Mike. But it is no matter Mike when it is all make believe, the manned landing part anyway. Is it not, not a matter of concern?
MORE OF THE SAME ON BIRD HIDING, BUT IT REALLY IS SINKING IN NOW, THE TRUTH IN IT ALL, IS IT NOT?
From Craig Nelson's highly regarded Penguin publication Rocket Men, 2009. Collins and Aldrin themselves provided details to the author for this book. With regard to Collins' hunt for the Eagle and its status as a lost bird, from the book's page 290("pings" is PGNS, "aggs" refers to the AGS and Earth tracking stations are the powered flight processor/MSFN solutions for the Eagle's landing site coordinate determination sources);
"For the rest of the day Collins spent countless hours peering through the sextant, trying to pinpoint his crewmates landing spot. He never could determine where the Eagle was, exactly, nor could Houston. Eagle's pings reported that it was north of the originally intended site; aggs indicated that it had landed in the middle; and the tracking stations back on planet Earth insisted it was to the south."
GEEWHIZ!!!! For such a hot shot author, one would think Craig Nelson could have gotten his facts straight on this, especially having access to Collins and Aldrin as he did, not to mention pretty much everyone else of import involved in the Apollo 11 Simulated Mission to Land a Man on the Moon. And here we are, with simple dumb blind beginner researcher's luck, just opened up the Apollo 11 Mission Report and found all 3 solutions Craig Nelson referenced above; pings/PGNS, aggs/AGS and tracking from Earth/Powered Flight Processor were actually in agreement. Silly us, getting something so complicated right almost without even trying. All 3 solutions not more than 4 tenths of a mile from one another and ultimately found to be solutions all very very close to the Eagle's true simulated landing site at 00 41' 15" north and 23 26' 00" east. Should we call up Craig Nelson, email him, write him and tell him to fix his book? Guess he could for the next edition, say he was wrong in this one, that the Apollo 11 Mission Report actually showed the PGNS, AGS and Earth tracking all located the Eagle to the south and west of its simulated mission targeted landing site, and all 3 solutions actually did track it to having touched down close to the finally acknowledged official site at 00 41' 15" north and 23 26' 00" east. Shall we call the guy and help the poor dumb shmuck? Seems like we do a better job advising him than the astronauts themselves did with regard to this sort of thing. GEEEE! I wonder why?!
Naive authors like Nelson are not much to blame for this type of thing, as foolish as they do look. They are intentionally steered in the "wrong direction". This sort of finding emphasizes the importance of researching critical points on one's own and also the point about how popular authors are subtly manipulated, very indirectly, but very effectively nevertheless, to cover the holes in this bogus tale. There is no mystery about the PGNS, AGS and MSFN tracking of the Eagle. Craig could not have been more wrong, and he could have seen this by reading the Apollo 11 Mission Report for himself and checking with NASA to confirm the substance of the report's details as regards the Eagle's tracking. Instead, he wrote something somebody told him. Something that is obviously false, and intentionally so. It is a description of the Eagle's tracking issue/problem with respect to the PGNS, AGS, and MSFN solutions that is intended to deceive and support this absurd notion that no one knew where the Eagle was, that it was "lost".
Here is more from Craig Nelson's book that everyone will enjoy, though may also find to be more than a bit confusing. Also from page 290, just following the quote above. The "data" the author is referring to in the first sentence below is the very data referenced above, the landing site position as determined by PGNS, AGS and Earth tracking;
"Using this data, NASA mapping scientist Lou Wade and his team plotted fourteen possible landing points, while a band of geologists, using Armstrong's description of the terrain, insisted there was only one possible answer; West Crater. They sent NASA their reasoning, but it wasn't taken seriously at Mission Control. On July 21 at 8:30 a.m. CST, Collins radioed from Columbia, "You've given up looking for the the LM, right? and Houston replied, "Affirmative."
In fact, the geologist team would be off by a mere two hundred meters."
Boy sure is too bad no body was paying attention to the geologists. Never is good to give up on stuff is it? Especially giving up on looking for space ships, might strand your guys somewhere you know.
Guess it wouldn't matter though all that much if the manned landing part was all make believe so as they could park their military equipment and what not up there. Not like anyone's life was genuinely at risk you know.
My favorite quote, Michael Collins from the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing Report, Section 11.3, on Landmark Tracking. With reference here to the Eagle's location, Michael Collins;
"The problem was I didn't know where the LM was, and the ground didn't either. There is too much real estate down there within the intended landing zone to scan on one, two, three, or four passes. On each pass, I could do a decent job of scanning one or two grid squares on the expanded map. That map is the 1:100,000 map called LAM 2. The ground was giving me coordinates in the grid square coordinate system that were as much as 10 squares apart. This told me they didn't really have much of a handle at all on where the LM had landed."
Don't feel bad Mike. You didn't know where the Eagle was. The ground didn't know where the Eagle was. Matter of fact, nobody had "much of a handle at all on where the Eagle had landed" as you like to say Mike. But it is no matter Mike when it is all make believe, the manned landing part anyway. Is it not, not a matter of concern?
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