Dark NASA
This website documents, in exacting detail, the dark side of NASA. The public-facing aspect is bright and hopeful. The reality is anything but. The US Navy investigation of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, after it exploded over East Texas in February 2003, blamed it on the "NASA culture." White Sands
A bureaucracy and process that tramples reason, stifles professional differences of opinion, and doesn’t reflect reality, quote-unquote.
If you have any doubt, just look at where NASA is now: a shadow of its heyday whose only purpose is to fund SpaceX and enrich Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, et al. The technology has de-evolved from the glorious Space Shuttle to a humongous phallic symbol that genuflects back onto its platform like a monstrous mechanical masturbation.
White Sands Missile Range
The first section of the website takes place at the US Army White Sands Missile Range, the highest security military installation in the world and ground zero of the US space effort. I arrived at White Sands in the fall of 1982 with a remarkable letter from NASA in hand, evaluating my manuscript, A Journal of 21st Century Technology. The NASA letter said, in part:
Your work was reviewed by an engineer and a scientist. They both came to the same conclusion. Your ideas about the Unified Field Theory appear to be so profound as to be years ahead of the current scientific thinking in the areas in which you delved.
Two years later, I had just been hospitalized on a psych ward by command influence at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, fighting for my very life. The Army's head doctors had decided my NASA research was a "grandiose delusion." Even though the Medical Review Board determined that my tech was rock solid, the damage was done:
Soon after my discharge, I destroyed five years of the NASA research. I got so depressed I attempted suicide. I tried again a year later. It took me ten years to recover. In the spring of 1997, I redid the research for a presentation in Victor Szebehely's class at UT Austin (he was the foremost researcher in celestial mechanics of the modern era). He loved my work!
All you need to do is add time to your model, and you'll get your name lit up in lights.
Dr. Szebehely encouraged me to apply to graduate school. He wrote me a nice letter of recommendation. I started classes that fall. Unfortunately, he passed away a few months later. It was all downhill from there.
The University of Texas at Austin
Again, just like White Sands, I started off full of hope and excitement. The Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas is pretty much NASA. They call it "JPL East." When you see all the nerds at JPL celebrating after a successful mission, most of them are UT graduates.
Four years later, I was expelled with such extreme malice that the VA increased my rating for schizophrenia from 0% to 100%. I was left with such a debilitating math phobia that it has taken me 25 years to get back to my research.
Only to discover that Cesar Ocampo stole my research when he was my advisor at Texas, as the first use of the Copernicus software that has been NASA's main trajectory analysis and planning software for decades. Ocampo used my exact method, including two revolutionary techniques I spent 15 years developing. He never explained how he got the crucial "first guess" needed for his nonlinear optimization system.
My Mars Pathfinder computer program, copyrighted two years before Ocampo came to Texas, is that exact "first guess."
Ocampo, in collusion with the orbital mechanics group, conspired to run me off campus so they could use my bleeding-edge research. The story of how they did it would make an epic horror flick.
All the horrific details are here, in their own words, on university letterhead like they were proud of it. Or, at least, as though they had nothing to fear. Because, in reality, they didn't. The bureaucracy backed them up 100%. Outside the Forty Acres, politicians, the oversight boards - everybody all the way up the food chain backed them up 100%.
This is exactly the "NASA culture" the US Navy was talking about. The Navy's report is abstract. This is real. The Navy report talks in generalities. This is specific, exact, excruciating.
NOTE: The "angle" on the main pages summarizing each situation is just that: a theory. Every investigation starts with a theory. Where it leads in the end is anybody's guess.
Bill H. Clark, P.E.
Professional Engineer
Texas license #74416
