Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell Sued Over Lunar Camera

[D-Day]

Apollo 14 Astronaut Sued Over Lunar Camera

Saturday, 2 July 2011 2:21

Originally published on www.DarkGovernment.com

The U.S. government has sued a former NASA astronaut to recover a camera used to explore the moon’s surface during the 1971 Apollo 14 mission after seeing it slated for sale in a New York auction.

The lawsuit, filed in Miami federal court on Wednesday, accuses Edgar Mitchell of illegally possessing the camera and attempting to sell it for profit.

In March, NASA learned that the British auction house Bonhams was planning to sell the camera at an upcoming Space History Sale, according to the suit.

The item was labeled “Movie Camera from the Lunar Surface” and billed as one of two cameras from the Apollo 14′s lunar module Antares. The lot description said the item came “directly from the collection” of pilot Edgar Mitchell and had a pre-sale estimate of $60,000 to $80,000, the suit said.

Mitchell was a lunar module pilot on Apollo 14, which launched its nine-day mission in 1971 under the command of Alan Shepard. The sixth person to walk on the moon, Mitchell is now retired and runs a website selling his autographed picture.

He has made headlines in the past for his stated belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life.

“All equipment and property used during NASA operations remains the property of NASA unless explicitly released or transferred to another party,” the government suit said, adding NASA had no record of the camera being given to Mitchell.

The suit said the government had made repeated requests to Mitchell and his lawyer to return the camera but received no response.

Mitchell’s lawyer, Donald Jacobson, said NASA management was aware of and approved Mitchell’s ownership of the camera 40 years ago.

“Objects from the lunar trips to the moon were ultimately mounted and then presented to the astronauts as a gift after they had helped NASA on a mission,” Jacobson said.

Bonhams said in an emailed statement that the camera had been slated to be auctioned off in May when it learned about the ownership dispute from NASA. The auction house withdrew the camera from sale “pending further discussion between NASA and the consignor,” a Bonhams spokesperson said.

The government is asking the court to stop Mitchell from selling the camera to anyone, to order its return and to declare that the United States has “good, clean and exclusive title” to the camera.

Source: http://beforeitsnews.com/story/774/049/Apollo_14_Astronaut_Sued_Over_Lunar_Camera.html

[Daft Ada]

A more reliable and trustworthy person I doubt exists, and NASA are going to call their own Astronaut a liar are they? what are they afraid of I doubt there is any film left in it?

[onawah]

René Descartes famously said "I think, therefore I am."
Edgar Mitchell seems to be saying "As I think, therefore reality is."

BY Larry Lowe
Phoenix UFO Examiner

http://www.examiner.com/ufo-in-phoenix/marking-a-milestone-the-unexpected-benefit-of-apollo-14

On January 31, 1971 at 4:04:02 pm local time, Apollo 14 lifted off from Cape Kennedy, carrying Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell into history. When the Command Module Kitty Hawk splashed down in the South Pacific on February 9, the world changed, but not for a reason anyone other than Ed Mitchell could realize at the time.

In the ensuing 41 years, the travails and accomplishments of Apollo 14 have become the stuff of American aerospace legend: the difficulty docking with the LEM prior to translunar injection, Mitchell’s emergency reprogramming of the LEM flight computer, the most precise lunar landing to date, the heartbreaking decision to deploy the second EVA research package 30 meters short of the unseen rim of Cone Crater, the first lunar Olympics, a successful completion of the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 mission profile.

t was a story that epitomized the can-do legerdemain with which the Apollo program gave America a world cultural identity in the late ’60’s and early ’70‘s. It was a triumph of engineering, science, training and ‘right stuff’ grace under pressure. At the time, the ramifications of the mission to the understanding of human consciousness were the furthest thing from anyone’s mind. Except the mind of Edgar Mitchell.

Shepard and Roosa are gone, leaving Mitchell as the last living member of the crew. Which is a good thing for humanity, because in the post Apollo years, he has dedicated his life to a far more complex journey.

And therein lies a story of the unexpected benefits of exploration.

A ‘Nobel Prize’ for Thinking.

The sixth man to walk upon the moon became the seventh person inducted into the prestigious Leonardo da Vinci Society for the Study of Thinking during an induction ceremony at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona in June of last year.

Cosmologist and Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, whose academic credentials include a doctorate in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, joined physicist Dr. Michio Kaku and technologist-futurist Ray Kurzweil in the exclusive society.

Mitchell is best known for his exploration of the Fra Mauro highlands. His investiture in the Da Vinci Society, however, was earned for accomplishments after leaving NASA in 1972. These include founding the Institute of Noetic Sciences and more recently Quantrek. Most significantly, Mitchell has developed a new cosmology that holds promise for an evolution in how we see ourselves in relation to reality around us.

At Quantrek Mitchell assembled a stellar interdisciplinary team of degreed scientists including Dr. Gary Schwartz, Dr. Walter Schempp and long time colleague Dr. Hal Puthoff to detail that cosmology.

The induction ceremony took place during a colloquium and luncheon in the main hall of the UAT in Tempe. UAT founder, Domnic Pistillo, is also the visionary force behind the Da Vinci society.

In welcoming remarks to the attendees, Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman commended the UAT for its innovative approach to education. He concluded by reading proclamation declaring June 3, 2011 as the Leonardo da Vinci Society for the Study of Thinking Day.

The presentation of the award was done by former Phoenix area broadcaster and noted author Charles Goyette, after which Mitchell addressed the audience. He delivered a low-key but powerful assessment of his life's work after Apollo.

Dr. Mitchell's selection as one of the great thinkers of our time is not an honorary degree. His goal is correcting what he sees as a flaw in man’s approach to thinking induced in the 17th century. This mistake placed western scientific thinking within a box of materialist context. That, in turn, precludes complete understanding of the laws of the universe.

From Edgar Mitchell's perspective, the best minds of our civilization are not thinking comprehensively. Until they are, we as a species won't likely get where evolution beckons us.
The Da Vinci Society was established in 2005 when renown expert on lateral and parallel thinking Dr. Edward de Bono was inducted as the inaugural chair. Debono's work explored the way we think. Subsequent inductees have been selected on the basis of what they thought about. Mitchell's unique contribution is to attempt to reconcile what is doing the thinking (mind) with what is being thought about (matter).

René Descartes famously said "I think, therefore I am."

Edgar Mitchell seems to be saying "As I think, therefore reality is."

With his induction into the Society for the Study of Thinking, Mitchell joins a group of thoughtful people. Prior Da Vinci inductees include Dr. de Bono; Dr. Margaret J. Wheatley who investigates speed and change in our society; Dr. Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics; Dr. Kaku, once called a ‘superhero of the incomprehensible’; Kurzweil, who popularized the concept of a technological singularity; and Dr. Lynn Margulis, a leading proponent of Gaia Theory.

Edgar Mitchell’s cosmology, which he calls the Dyadic Model of Consciousness, fits right into this body of thought. A key component of it is the concept of the Quantum Hologram, derived in 1992 by the German mathematician Dr. Walter Schempp.

The quantum hologram is the first energy phenomenon that directly links all macro-scale matter with the quantum world. For most of the last century, quantum nonlocality was considered a vexing artifact of particle interactions, but with no application to the macro scale world. Nonlocal information was not considered useable. It is now clear that in the proper circumstances that quantum information is both available and useable.
— Consciousness, Quantum Physics, the Zero Point Field and the Quantum Holographic Model, Edgar Mitchell, ScD.

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[mosquito]

I rememberseeing Ed Mitchell speak at a conference (on consciousness) in Cambridge in 1995, a very softly-spoken, unasuming yet brilliant man, whose work will hopefully begin to have an impact on the way we see ourselves in the universe. I also remember he has extremel large hands !!