Mr. Johnston's claims are entirely inconsistent. "Photo documentation supervisor" is plausible enough, but was he a contractor or an employee? We are told he was "with NASA" for 23 years. If so, then our friends at NASA would be able to come up with some record of his having worked there. At least both of Hoagland's sources are reasonably consistent and applicable, but ...
From Florida Today, 11/01/96:
[i]Ken Johnston is a former test pilot consultant who spent 3,000 hours working lunar module controls for Grumman. In 1971, his job was to catalogue raw negatives and footage for the Apollo lunar missions at Johnson Space Center.
Florida Today is likely repeated Johnston's claims and didn't do much checking on their own. They obviously interviewed him.
What, exactly, does one do when one "works lunar module controls" for 3,000 hours? And did he work for NASA, for Grumman, or someone else? Why would NASA employ a Grumman flight test engineer or pilot to catalogue photographs at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory. What exactly is a "test pilot consultant"?
And why does he later call himself a "lunar module test pilot?" You can't flight-test a lunar module, as anyone who worked for Grumman would know.
His claims are based solely on his eyewitness testimony, which in turn is based entirely on his claims of employment. Thus it is Mr. Johnston's duty to clarify exactly who he his and for whom he worked.
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