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a 30 day time period. A man by the name of Calbraith Perry Rodgers sought to fulfill the challenge
and collect the prize. He was the first man to fly coast to coast, and the year was 1911. However,
Rodgers had to stop 70 times, not all of them scheduled, and he hired the Wright brother’s mechanic
at a cost of $70 per week to keep the plane flying. The mechanic would travel by train and meet
Rodgers at each stop. Rodgers failed to meet the 30 day deadline, for it took him 49 days to fly coast
to coast in a Wright Model EX airplane. He could have traveled the same distance quicker by train.

This slow, but steady progress in airplane design is what one might expect in the development of a
new technology. Like rocket development, airplane evolution was dangerous. In 1910 the Wright
brothers formed a nine man demonstration flying team to help sell airplanes. They would perform
at exhibitions. The team was only together for one year, during which two of the pilots died in
crashes. After disbanding, four other pilots from the original nine would die in airplane accidents.
Calbraith Rodgers also died in a plane crash a year after flying coast to coast across America.

In the year 1927, Charles Lindbergh would fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York
to France. During the 1940s, in the midst of World War II, jet airplanes were first flown. In the year
1955, 44 years after Rodgers made the first slow and halting airplane trip across the United States,
Boeing introduced the Dash-80, the precursor to the 707. The Dash-80 had a cruising speed of 550
mph, and a range of 3,530 miles. It could fly coast to coast on a single tank of gas, and in a time of
6 hours as compared to the 49 days required by Rodgers.

Boeing Dash-80

If man was able to travel all the way to the Moon and back, and do so repeatedly without a single
death or flight failure during the years 1969-1972, why has man traveled no further than a small
fraction of that distance in the ensuing decades of space flight? Why did they not see the same
progress in space technology as we saw in airplane technology during its history? If airplane progress
mirrored manned space flight, after Rodgers 1911 flight across the United States, all airplane
manufacturers would have gone back to perfecting short flights which went no further than 3-4
miles, with no one surpassing that distance in the next 44 years.

Such discrepancies can only be adequately explained by recognizing that man has never gone to the
Moon and back. The Apollo Space Program is a myth. It was an illusion to deceive the masses, and
it accomplished its purpose very well. If we remove the vaunted claims of the Apollo program, we
find in NASA’s development of space flight something that parallels more consistently the progress