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There are no nuclear weapons, it’s only government fraud to aid control via fear.

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Here is a link to a photo of Jim Lovell all suited up for Apollo 13. Note the red stripes on the sleeves of his extravehicular pressure garment assembly. They were added for this mission to help ground control technicians to identify the two astronauts while walking on the Moon's surface. This little change shows astonishing attention to detail for a mission which NASA executives knew would be presented to the world as a terrifying ordeal but which would involve no faked lunar landing. After all, why add the stripes if the astronauts won't even be pretending to be on the Moon.

One may wonder why they didn't come up with a more obvous and more dramatic story for their hoax emergency. Imagine for a moment that instead of the explosion in transit that two astronauts become stuck on the Moon's surface. Their LM refuses to launch then back into lunar orbit. How will they save theirselves? OMG, will the guy in orbit have to abandon them there? This is high drama.

It so happens that the red stripes of the commander's suit can be removed and used to fix up a broken important part of the LM. The fix is made, the astronauts luanch back into orbit, and this story, too, has happy ending. Hooray! Give a medal to each of the guys who added the commander stripes. What incredible foresight they had to make the material useful in multiple ways.

A nice benefit of this other story is that no one at NASA or its contractors comes off looking inept because they weren't smart enough to equip the LM and the CSM with identical, interchangeable cannisters of carbon dioxide scrubbers. So instead of a clever drama which pokes the rubes in their eyes hard, we have a story in which the astronauts macguyver a contraption to adapt the incompatible parts.

https://apollojournals.org/afj/ap13fj/photos/19700411-s70-34848.jpg

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