Moon-walker claims alien contact cover-up

Former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist. And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.

Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.' He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.

Chillingly, he claimed our technology is "not nearly as sophisticated" as theirs and "had they been hostile", he warned "we would be been gone by now". Dr Mitchell, along with with Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, holds the record for the longest ever moon walk, at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission.

"I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real," Dr Mitchell said. "It's been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it's leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.

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NASA Beams Beatles Into Space!

FIRST-EVER TRANSMISSION OF MUSIC TO FAR END OF GALAXY Across The Universe Goes Across The Universe!

Public Invited To Join In And Create 'Harmonic Convergence'

The US space agency NASA undertakes an historic mission on Monday, February 4th -- when it will beam music into deep space for the first time ever. Though it has become commonplace to transmit music to manned spacecraft over the past 40 years as wake-up songs for astronauts -- this will be the first time that a pure blast of music has been targeted to go further than an orbiting spacecraft. This transmission is targeted at Polaris ("The North Star"), which is situated 2.5 quadrillion miles away. (A quadrillion is one thousand million million! So 2,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away!) The song will take 431 years to reach Polaris -- arriving in the year 2,439 AD.

The song selected for this mission "to boldly go where no music has gone before ... " is the classic Beatles peace anthem "Across The Universe."

China denies fake photo Internet rumors

The Chinese government has strenuously denied Internet rumors that a photo it claims was taken by its first lunar probe are simply reprints of NASA photos.

China's premier, Wen Jiabao, has called the photo proof of China's recent advances in the realms of space and technology. But internet users in China have commented that the photo is similar to a NASA image taken in 2005. However, one of the chief scientists who worked on the lunar probe, Ouyang Ziyuan, was quoted by the Beijing News as saying: "China's first moon photo is absolutely not a fake ... a careful examination will tell some small differences."

In 2003 China became the third nation, after the Soviet Union and the US, to put a man in space using its own rocket. China has claimed that it is to launch another manned mission to space next year, which will involve a space walk.

Sunset over Europe and Africa from space. Is it a FAKE?

The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting -- half of the picture is in night.

The bright dots you see are the cities lights. The top part of Africa is the Sahara Desert. Note how the lights are already on in Holland, Paris, and Barcelona, and how it's still daylight in London, Lisbon, and Madrid. The sun is still shining on the Straight of Gibraltar, and the Mediterranean Sea is already in darkness.

In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean you can see the Azores Islands; below them to the right are the Madeira Islands; a bit below are the Canary Islands; and further south, close to the farthest western point of Africa, the Cape Verde Islands. Note how the Sahara is huge and can be seen clearly both during daytime and nighttime. To the left, on top, is Greenland, totally frozen.

Photo -- Taken by the crew of the Columbia during the last mission