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Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA Paperback – Illustrated, January 1, 2009

by Richard C. Hoagland (Author), Mike Bara (Author)

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Welcome to the Revised and Expanded Edition of the New York Times bestseller. The New Edition includes astonishing photos that NASA is unable to cover-up of architectural formations on the Moon and Mars.

The New York Times bestseller about the strange history of NASA and its cover-ups regarding its origins and extraterrestrial architecture found on the moon and Mars is even more interesting in its new edition.

Authors Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara include a new chapter about the discoveries made by ex-Nazi scientist and NASA stalwart Wernher von Braun regarding what he termed "alternate gravitational solutions," or the rewriting of Newtonian physics into hyperdimensional spheres.

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Feral House
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January 1, 2009
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6.1 x 1.3 x 9 inches
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1932595481
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"Excellent ... extraordinary book." -- Jim Marrs

“Read this book! The truth has never been told better than this.” ― Robert O. Dean, CSM-USA (Retired)

“A conspiratorial opus and investigative quest, Dark Mission opens the reader’s mind to a surreal hall of mirrors ― a world where occult sects masquerade as government agencies, where the mute spheres of the solar system conceal ancient alien artifacts and hyper-dimensional messages that may be critical for our survival. Call into question the nature of truth and the limits of knowledge, Hoagland and Bara’s opus is one of the stranger and more amazing books I have ever encountered. Read it if you dare.” ― Daniel Pinchbeck, author, Breaking Open the Head and 2012

“Hoagland’s most important book. A deeply disturbing, thought-provoking tour de force that will keep you reading through the night. ― Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods

About the Author

Hoagland served as a Curator of Astronomy & Space Science at the Springfield Museum of Science, located at The Quadrangle in Springfield, Massachusetts, and as a science adviser to Walter Cronkite and CBS News during the Apollo program. Mike Bara is a Consulting Engineer for Boeing. His scientific fluency and credibility adds further reinforcement to Richard Hoagland's controversial work. Bara has appeared on Coast to Coast with George Noory.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Feral House; Revised & enlarged edition (January 1, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 616 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1932595481
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1932595482
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.93 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 1.3 x 9 inches

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Dan Proctor

Excellent book, well documented, high production quality and well written.

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2020

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Dark Mission is one of my most important books. I've read about 15 to 20 so far in this area: flying saucers, evidence of extraterrestrial life, contact, UFOs etc. What I love about this book is how well it is documented. There are many NASA photos, diagrams, side by side photos, and history. You don't need to read "The Monuments of Mars" before reading this book, but it is nice to have them both. It is a large book. If you need a shorter book, try: "UFOs" by Leslie Kean, it is also an excellent read, but comes at a different topic. Dark Mission is well worth the effort to read cover to cover and Hoagland has an excellent website that goes with his research. His videos are out there too if you want to get an overview of his content. Highly recommended, buy this now and share with friends.

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S. Harris

Conspiracy theory FAIL

Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2020

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Most publishers, on receiving the ms of this wretched book, would have diverted it to the round file immediately. Apparently, Adam Parfrey, the publisher of "Dark Mission" doesn't have the education to understand that he's published 600 pages of garbage (and not once but twice, since this is the second edition and none of the factual errors in the first edition have been corrected -- neither have most of the typos).

Here's a sampler of the Hoagland, Bara and Parfrey FAILBLOG:

p. 58. "[NASA] was quietly founded as a direct adjunct to the Department of Defense..." Nonsense. The relationship between NASA and DoD is contractual only. "Quietly"? What kind of noise did Hoagland expect?

p.91. The authors claim that the following features are at, "or very near," a latitude of 19.5°: The Great Dark Spot of Neptune, The Great Red Spot of Jupiter, The erupting volcanoes of Io, Olympus Mons on Mars, and Mauna Kea. Of those, Mauna Kea is the only one at 19.5°. Latitude FAIL.

pp. 156-157, 383-387. On these pages the authors make breathtakingly ridiculous assertions that three failed Mars missions of the 1990s were deliberately sabotaged (either by NASA or by a "powerful cabal") to prevent them from returning high-resolution photography which would inevitably confirm the existence of ancient civilizations.

Mars Observer (1993)
Mars Polar Lander (1999)
Mars Climate Orbiter (1999)

James Oberg has exposed these allegations as utterly false in a Space Review article.

p. 163 The "Brookings Report" recommended suppressing evidence of extraterrestrial civilisation. It did not.

p.232 and color Fig 12. The authors maintain that Al Bean, LMP of Apollo 12, portrayed buttresses holding up huge glass domes on the Moon in some of his paintings. Utter nonsense -- the diagonal lines on the painting illustrated are the imprint of Bean's lunar boot. Buttress FAIL.

p.280. Discussing the Apollo 10 mission, the authors write of the Apollo 10 Lunar Module "while the spacecraft was theoretically fully capable of landing on the moon, inexplicably, it was not given the capability to do so." Nothing inexplicable about that, Hoagland. "Snoopy" was too heavy.

p.475. The authors note that some images released from the THEMIS imager on Mars Odyssey are 1947 x 333 pixels. They add "Or, 19.5 x 33." Maths FAIL.

p.514 After the Viking landings in 1976 NASA suppressed the information that "the Lander tests for life both came back positive." More nonsense. Only ONE of THREE biology instruments (on each of 2 landers) showed arguably positive results. NASA-JPL has made no effort whatsoever to suppress this fact. The full results are publicly available, and have been for 33 years.

p.541. "[O]n the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Apollo 11 ... [Neil] Armstrong ... started his highly emotional address by first comparing himself to a parrot--saying only what he had been told to say." Actually, Armstrong said the EXACT OPPOSITE. Look it up.

pp. 559-562, figs 12-13,14,15,16,17 and color figs. 27,28.The authors allege, and the publisher naively believed, a fantasy about a robot head in a lunar crater which the Apollo 17 astronauts "could have" retrieved and brought back to Earth. The object in question is a rock that superficially resembles a skull. Hoagland has fraudulently manipulated and colourised the photograph of it. There are many reasons why it would have been impossible for the astronauts to have retrieved it, even if they could have spotted it. This section of the book is shamefully, disgracefully false.

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Triv

Conspiracy Theories run amok

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2019

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I was thinking this was about some of NASA's spy missions when I bought it.

I really should have read the preview a little closer.

This is beyond fantasy. Trying to incorporate wild dreams into their reality.

The investigators look under every rock only to find paranoia staring back.

Is there any way to get my money back?

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David A. Cintron

Lengthy but informative

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2020

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I did get a lot out of reading this book, however I feel it could have been a couple of hundred pages shorter. The space released could be filled with better photographic reproductions because so much of the book depends on analysis of photographs. Or it should have an online companion, because the newer Lunar and Mars orbiters are sending back fantastically improved images that can be accessed on the web. Whereas I do believe there are artifacts left behind in our solar system by a previous space faring civilization from here or whereever, this book did not really convince me that they are where they say they are. Rather it was very informative about who is looking for these, how they are being looked for and why. Finally, the author's continual use of italics and "emphasis" would better be replaced by better explanation of the facts rather than his personal views.

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Mark Brown

Confidence where there is only doubt

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2017

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Aristotle's once wrote that "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Whilst you may entertain conspiracy theories about NASA you will find them hard to accept. Such conspiracy theorists have tormented Moon astronauts for over 40 years. Buzz Aldrin famously punched moon-landing denier Bart Sibrel in the face in 2002. Neil Armstrong probably spent his life hiding from people like Hoagland. Of course the author claims Aldrin and Armstrong were hypnotised to forget all about the alien artefacts they saw on the moon. I believe there is a special circle of Hell reserved for NASA conspiracy theorists. In this Hell these people get to walk around the Moon & Mars for eternity looking for non-existent space aliens..... And for eternity the Devil will criticise them for covering up when they found. I first read about alleged cover-ups of life on the Moon back in the late 1980's when I was still a teenager and I found the idea entertaining but hardly convincing. The trouble with "Dark Mission" is Hoagland's ability to make his theories so dull. There is a good 20% of this that is probably a genuine retelling of NASA history with another 20% that touches upon quite interesting fringe science. Anyone who has found the theories of 'torsional physics' elsewhere know that it dates back way beyond Tesla and covers an exotic range of ideas including zero point energy, anti-gravity drives and time travel. THAT is interesting but not yet accepted into mainstream physics. Which leaves us with the 60% of the content which is hardcore conspiracy theory. It ropes in the Free Masons, the Kennedy assassination, Roswell and space aliens. The main premise is that NASA is an occult organisation that aligns its activity with the astrological positions of planets linked to Egyptian Gods. None of it is remotely plausible yet, like all good conspiracies, the very lack of evidence and, indeed, any contradictory evidence, is presented as proof of the theory. The author would have you believe that Buzz Aldrin's Holy Communion on the moon was an occult-Freemason-Egyptian ritual. The proof? None. The author just waves it away claiming that the ritual can be traced back to ancient Egypt. Hoagland's approach to statistical modelling is to fire a machine gun at a wall and then draw the target around where-ever the most holes are. The photographic evidence is all so many Rorschach ink-blot tests. The author and his team simply see whatever they wish to see. They have blown up tiny portions of photographs to look at something so small it is nothing more than film grain - then claim they can see enormous structures on the moon made of glass complete with full architectural detail. Yet to everyone else these features look natural. The author presents this all so much "killer evidence" yet is utterly underwhelming & disappointing. Charles Bukowski once wrote that "The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid one are full of confidence." Everything Hoagland writes is doubtful. Read "Dark Mission" but Google it often to see how others have debunked it. And, by the way, the photos of Mars in 2001 show there is no face there.

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PAUL KEAN

Hugely disappointing and overpriced for content.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2020

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So disappointed with this book.
Some great ideas are pitched, but unfortunately you need to have a degree in quantum physics to understand it!
Yes, it’s very detailed, but by doing so it becomes so difficult to get through without losing interest.
Chronologically, a new addition update finds new notes at the beginning of the new addition rather at the end, which is a huge mistake, as by the time you’ve waded through all that, you know basically what the theory of the book will be, before even starting on the original prose.
Such a shame, because the ideas presented should be holding our curiosity far more, but what could have been presented in one page, takes 20.
If the ideas had been far more concise, and concentrated on the bullet points to present their theories, it would have been far better.
Someone needs to rewrite in layman terms!
An opportunity lost.

Mike T

Thought Provoking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 30, 2015

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Fascinating stuff. The amount of detail and research that has gone into this book is amazing. If even a quarter of what is wrote in the book is true then serious questions need to be answered but I'm sure they are not likely to be forthcoming. It can be a bit tough going in places but it is well worth persevering as it will make you think and want to question many things. Chapter 3 alone for me was worth the price of the book as I found the piece surrounding JFK very intriguing and if true and they are prepared to go to those lengths then what else could they be keeping from the public?

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Marcus Newell

Must have

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 12, 2015

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The science gets a little too deep and long for me at times personally so I skipped a couple chapters. But highly recommended for anyone interested in the source material. Not something you can just skim through its a serious book.

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James Wright

Perfect

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2016

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Book arrived before expected date which was awesome, the book itself was in great condition and the packaging was very good and obviously done with the greatest care.

In terms of the book itself it is a great read and very informative. If you are interested in what nasal are really up to, definitely worth a read

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