Seems to be a re-hash/regurgitation of this piece in conspiracy kooks-r-us site Nexus
Same author. Or same
nom du plume, anyway. At least Nexus drops an email address purportedly for the author, and tells we should go to the Aulis site for the footnotes. And that makes sense; the Aulis authors David Percy and Mary Bennett are buddies with Marcus Allen, who publishes the magazine version of
Nexus in the U.K. and who has always worked hand in hand with Bennett and Percy to publish hoax stuff.
Said article makes the hilarious claim that [amount to various lies].
Indeed, it's fairly standard conspiracy-mongering: announce that you're an expert, that you've exhaustively studied the problem, and then just make up whatever drivel you want because you know none of your enthusiastic readers will check up on it, and that your critics can be dismissed as shills.
If they don't know that those claims alone aren't true, they aren't fit to be writing about the subject.
Oh, but the author is a Very Important Person in New Zealand, a degreed physicist who has done Many Wonderful Things for Many Large Companies, if his bio is to be believed.
Too bad he insists on hiding behind false names.
As I write elsewhere, this is actually a stunt Bennett and Percy pull quite often. In their published materials they quote a handful of witnesses and experts, but always by pseudonyms "to protect their identity." These effectively anonymous experts always seem baffled by what they see in the record, and always seem to be at a loss to explain what NASA is doing or how they did it, contributing to the notion that their must be depths of secrecy surrounding the historical record.
Sadly these experts seem to disappear just when they're needed to answer questions regarding their findings.
Lately Aulis has toyed with "Russian physicists" who have apparently discovered serious problems with Apollo. Interestingly enough, none of these Russian "academics" seem to have any paper trail of any work whatsoever, in any country. Aulis has based quite a lot of their work on people they tout as experts, but who all seem to lie beyond the realm of
voir dire.
...and the kind of independent sources 'Kouts' seems so keen on.
His sources purporting to be first-hand NASA materials are GAO (Government Accountability Office) reports. They're a reasonable source if you want to make a case that NASA is blundering through an erratically-managed and -funded effort to get to Mars. However, if you want the line of reasoning in that case to be that NASA is fumbling going to Mars because it never developed the technology to go to the Moon, then "Kouts" is missing almost all of the most obvious sources, such as the
Apollo Experience Reports, the
Apollo News-Record reports, the operational and design handbooks for the individual components, and the
Mission Reports. This is where the technology is described in excruciating detail. They are all easily available, most of them at no cost. And anyone who wants to measure up as an expert in NASA manned spaceflight technology circa 1970 had better know those sources inside and out.
"Kouts" clearly has never heard of them.
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