Richard C. Hoagland

Hoagland is born in 1946.

old consulting NASA; and during the Apollo missions, was to advise scientist for Walter Cronkite and CBS News.

In 1965 , at age the 19 years, Hoagland becomes probably the youngest curator of a museum of the time, for the Museum of the Science of Massachusetts, in Springfield. Creative, wanting "to see large", it creates its first elaborate event commemorative at the time of the first historical overflight of another planet Mars by automated Mariner 4 of NASA . A public of 2000 people is joined together with the museum, and 5000 others viewing the event since the JPL with Pasadena (California). In same time, a night radio transmission transcontinental the evening of the Encounter (linking the museum in Springfield, Mass., and NASA' S JPL control center, in Pasadena, Ca), Co-produced by Hoagland and WTIC-Radio, in Hartford (Connecticut), will be named thereafter for the Price Peabody Award, one of most prestigious in journalism.

At the beginning of the years 1970s, Hoagland proposes in Carl Sagan (with Eric Burgess) to place a "message for Humanity" on board Pioneer 10 -- the "first automatic Jupiter probe" of humanity; following its meeting jovienne of 1973, the celestial mechanics leads Pioneer 10 to become the first artifact to escape successfully from the solar system from the fine bottom from the large galaxy -- transporting "the Plate" -- whose origins were officially recognized by Sagan in the prestigious newspaper Science (175 [ 1972 ], 881).

At the beginning of the years 1980s, on the basis of data of NASA of the most sophisticated automatic overflights other planets, Hoagland is the first to propose (in a series of accounts of the UPI and AP largely quoted on its article, published in 1980 in Star & Sky magazine ) the existence of a "life in deep ocean" under the total glacial crust surrounding perpetually Europe , enigmatic the Jupiter satellite. At the time, the majority (but not all) of the scientists of NASA dismount this idea in the moment; 2 of the dissidents of the vision of the time of NASA are Doctor Robert Jastrow, the director of the Goddard Institute for the Space Studies, and the visionary and well-known writer of science fiction which is Arthur C Clarke. In the epilogue of its incredible épopée 2001 ( 2010: Odyssée Two ), entirely elaborate around this extraordinary concept of old life of a éon in the covered oceans of ice of Europe, written Clarke:

The attractive idea which there can be life on Europe... was initially proposed by Richard C Hoagland [ in an article of 30 pages ] of the magazine Star & Sky... This concept rather shining were taken again with serious per a many astronomers (in particular of the Institute for the Space Studies of NASA in the person of Doctor Robert Jastrow), and could provide one of the best motivations of the mission envisaged Galileo .

Before recent press conferences of NASA and the documentary ones televised celebrating the success of the Galileo probe in the atmosphere of Jupiter on December 7, 1995, the acceptance of the scientists of NASA on the astonishing possibility of "life in the oceans of Europe" was largely presented and discussed. Thus potential acquisition by Galileo of new data resulting from its future overflights of Europe could lead to the confirmation of the "model of Hoagland." In spite of publication former and a detailed development of the concept, the name of Hoagland is not quoted nowhere by NASA, nor by the scientists of Galileo, when they speak about Europe .

The mission enterprise

At the beginning of the years 1990s Hoagland directs a team of volunteers and consultants in the creation of an educational effort citizen on the pioneers of the space "ère "in Dunbar Senior High, just with broad of Capitol Hill, Washington (D.C.). The experiment is elaborate around the concept of the implication of the pupil in the planning and the data acquisition of the mission in real time at the time of various missions of planetary exploration of NASA , such as Hubble and intended for the breakdowns Mars To observe . Beginning with an activity after course extracurriculaire, and using data-processing equipment of imagery of the state of the art and algorithms of improvement of image given, The Enterprise Mission and becoming a member of the team of the "U.S.S. Dunbar " that becomes finally an accredited course of the curriculum vitae of the Dunbar school. With the passing of years, scores of senior NASA Headquarters and Goddard Space Flight Center personal cuts enthusiastically participated in the project, including installation of A student satellite dated link direct to NASA and one-site briefing of students one many current NASA projects. Defender of education, Barbara Bush, then first lady, comes personally in Dunbar at the beginning from the project to have a personalized presentation on behalf of the students; this -- the mission enterprise of origin -- was finally nominated for a price "Not of Light" of the White House.

With the search for artificial artifacts (1983)

During the 13 last years, since 1983 , Hoagland directed an external scientific team in an analysis independent of potentially designed artifacts in manner intelligence as a whole of data of NASA -- by beginning with the automatic mission Viking of NASA on Mars in 1976 , and its images provocantes of a named area Cydonie . Hoagland and its team were invited at least 4 times in various centers of NASA since 1988 , for brieffer of the miliers of scientists and engineers of NASA on the results of their "investigation into Cydonie" in progress. In 1989 , Hoagland and its colleagues briefent the president of the time of House Committee one Space Science and Applications, the representative Robert Roe, on the statute of their Investigation over Mars . President Roe, before his sudden and unexplained resignation of the Congress, directs NASA to acquire better images of Mars at the time of their mission then envisaged "Mars To observe"; Disappearance quite as sudden and tragedy Mars To observe in 1993 empèche all new data related to "Cydonie." In 1993, Hoagland receives the International Medal Angström for Excellence in Science by the Foundation Angström, in Stockholm (Sweden), for this continuous research. At the time of the last 4 years, the investigations of him and its team were silently extended to include more than 30 years of data hidden up to now of the missions of NASA , Soviet and of the Pentagon on the Moon -- with dazzling results.

In 1993 , towards the end of the development of the McDaniel report/ratio , McDaniel requires of Hoagland its assistance to locate documents historical and papers of research of NASA , difficult to unearth, relating to project SETI -- research for the extraterrestrial intelligence; Hoagland speaks then in McDaniel about an old rumour concerning the existence about a rapporto fficiel about NASA -- supposed to be ordered by the space agency at its first years -- about the prospective censure about NASA on the indices about an extraterrestrial intelligence, if ever one had suddenly discovered some.

Hoagland consults then with former investigator of police force, Don Ecker , which, not only confirms the existence of this highly discussed study, but finds the title of it: Studies Suggested on the Implications of the Peaceful Space Activities on the Human Businesses .

Hoagland then contacts another of his/her friends, Lee Clinton, which, after a considerable effort, puts the hand on a copy of a few hundreds of pages of this study of NASA at the Federal Files, in Little Rock (Arkansas). Clinton makes several copies of the totality of the study, and forwards the complete document in Hoagland and McDaniel -- which uses it in his final report/ratio, like a convincing indicator of the potential perpetual policy of "dissimulation" of NASA on this subject.

References :
Richard Hoagland' S Nonsense - a dispute of the declarations of Hoagland by scientists.