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clusion is that the latest neutral-point information reached the gen- eral public at about the time of the first Apollo lunar landing in 1969, even though it was determined as far back as 1959 from early lunar probes. Clearly, this discrepancy has not been pointed out to the public until now. To this day, the status quo of science and government alludes to the one-sixth gravity of the lunar sur- face, representative of a neutral point less than 25,193 miles from the Moon. Therefore, the neutral-point discrepancy and its impli- cations must be investigated. The Moon's surface gravity was calculated with the new figures presented above, using the standard inverse-square-law technique. Since the radii of the Earth and Moon, the neutral-point distance and the Earth's surface gravity are known, the Moon's surface gravity is easily determined. The technique does not require a knowledge of the Moon's mass or the Earth's mass as Newton's Law of Gravitation does. The only aspect of Newton's Law of Gravitation which seems to be valid at this time is the inverse- square-law nature of gravity. Therefore, since the Barth's pull equals the Moon's pull at the neutral point, the inverse square law enables the pull of gravity at the Moon's surface to be determined. (The technical derivation is presented in Appendix B.) The result is that the Moon's surface gravity is 64 per cent of the Earth's sur- face gravity, not the one-sixth or 16.7 per cent value predicted by Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation! When the reader stops to consider that the 43,495-mile figure represents the measured value of the neutral-point distance sup- plied to us by official sources, an annoying paradox arises. Why would experts release this information and continue to refer to the Moon's one-sixth gravity condition, ignoring all the pre-Apollo references to the neutral-point distance of less than 25,000 miles? Additional information suggests that the Moon's gravity might even be higher than 64 per cent of Earth's. In consideration of what appears to be a cover-up, and the sensitivity of the neutral- point distance to slight variations in lunar gravity, NASA could have easily given the public understated figures. If the neutral point is 43,495 miles from the Moon, the surface gravity is 64 per cent of Earth's. Shifting the neutral point out 8,500 miles to around 52,000 miles from the Moon has the effect of increasing the Moon's surface gravity to the same value as Earth's. The discrepancies (discussed in Chapter 4) involve the orbital period of spaceships around the Moon and velocities attained by spaceships reaching the Moon from the neutral point. The publi- cised period and velocity values are not supportive of a 43,495- mile neutral-point distance from the Moon. They support the old neutral-point distances and the Moon's weak one-sixth gravity. Therefore, official information is inconsistent and contradictory, indicating a cover-up. The question is why the real neutral-point distance leaked out. Did some of the NASA people try to sabo- tage the cover-up? 00 Footnotes: 1, Caidin, Martin, The Moon: New World for Men, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, 1963, p. 111. 2. Lapp, Ralph E., Man and Space—The Next Decade, Harper & Brothers, New York, USA, 1961, p. 51. 3. Von Braun, Wernher and Frederick I. Ordway Ill, History of Rocketry & Space Travel, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, NY, USA, 1969, p. 191. 4. Wilford, John Noble, We Reach the Moon, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY, USA, 1969, p. 95. 5. “The Moon—A Giant Leap For Mankind”, Time, July 25, 1969, p. 14. 6. Von Braun and Ordway, op. cit., p. 238. 7. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1973, 4th ed., s.v. “Space Exploration", p. 1045. 8. Wilford, op. cit., p. 54. 9. The Writers and Editors of The Associated Press with Manuscript by John Barbour, Footprints on the Moon, The Associated Press, 1969, p. 201. About the Author: William L. Brian II is an engineer who has worked in a writing and editing capacity in private industry. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Nuclear Engineering from Oregon State University in 1970 and 1972, plus an M.B.A. from Portland State University in 1976. Although not considered an expert in the space sci- ences, he has the mathematical and conceptual skills to verify the NASA- military cover-up from a scientific standpoint. Copies of MOONGATE; Suppressed Findings of the US Space Program— The NASA-Military Cover-up can be obtained from the author, William L. Brian ll, at PO Box 86372, Portland, OR 97286-0372, USA. Price per copy in USA is USD$29.95 + USD$2.00 postage; overseas sur- face mail, add USD$3.00; overseas airmail, add USD$12.00. ISBN 0-941292-00-2 (soft cover). Published by Future Science Portland, Oregon, USA, 1982. Photo 2: Astronaut Young jumping up from the lunar surface on the Apollo 16 ASA Photo) 38 © NEXUS FEBRUARY-MARCH 1996