Bill Kaysing worked at Rocketdyne for over 7 years (1956-1963) with a secret security clearance ...

Just to add... I applied for a job with the IRS while in college. As part of the application process, I was investigated and givn a Secret security clearance. This is the minimum security clearance there is. As Jay implied, it doesn't mean you will be privy to "gubmint secrets" but that you can be trusted not to speak out of school.

And Kaysing himself puts the lie to that.

The Saturn 5 was supposed to contain over 2 million parts, an impossible
reliability nightmare.

No. Part count is only one measure of reliability. Factors such as linearity and coupling also affect the reliability of a system. In fact, the Saturn V is a much more loosely coupled system than, say, a Boeing 747 which has about six million parts and was also being developed at this time.

So, you're saying the 747 can't really fly? That the airlines have been tricking us all these years? Will the conspiracy never end?!

The LEM was poorly designed, with 2
doors instead of one, adding critical weight and reducing interior space
and safety.

False. The LM was brilliantly designed ... the LM is often praised as the most innovative and "pure" vehicle design of the 20th century.

Just wanted to emphasize this.

In the Apollo photographs there are no stars in the lunar sky.

This from a man who claims to have a baccalaureate and a master degree in engineering, and three other unspecificed degrees in highly technical fields, including physics and chemistry?

Degrees which don't make him an expert on astronomy or photography, but which do make it sound like we should pay attention when he speaks.

Recent tests with the DC-X rocket, landing tail first on Earth, produced a large, 2’ deep crater and significant damage to the vehicle.

Hm, DC-X at 16,000 kg in earth gravity versus a 7,000 kg lunar module in lunar gravity. Could there possibly be just a tad more thrust involved with the DC-X?

Now, here's where all those degrees should come in to play. So, why didn't he use one or two of them?

He seems to be taking only the facts he wants to use... 1/6G so the same force should have 6X the effect as on earth... but ignoring the others... 1/6G so you don't need the same force.

The factors that affect cratering are...

And, of course, ignored these, too.

Did he resign from the Apollo Program in 1970 out of disappointment that we weren’t really going?

In 1970, NASA asked von Braun to move from Marshall Space Flight Center where he was Director to Washington, D.C., to head up the strategic planning effort for the agency. Less than two years he decided to retire from NASA and go to work for Fairchild Industries. He died in 1977.

Looks like Wood was guilty of some of that "lackadaisical attitude" Kaysing noted.

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