NASA Found Its White Whale

Like Ahab of the classic Moby Dick, NASA has searched the deep (space) to find the one thing that  held back its true greatness, a single item that could be used as a source of propellant, building materials and radiation shielding for its Astronauts. Vast quantities that  NASA could source off planet.

Obama told NASA to go get its needed supplies  off planet/2011/07/06/ Obama stated that: “[W]e’ve set a goal to– let’s ultimately get to Mars, A good pit stop is an asteroid…” NASA was sent out to find a “White Whale” that would solve its biggest problem with Space Exploration of  its  “Fuel to Cargo” into orbit problem: in the order of 1000 pounds of fuel to 1 pound of cargo. It is commonly believed: that combustion of oxygen and hydrogen is the most effective rocket fuel. That is half true. There is a second that is equal to the oxygen/hydrogen fuel: Nuclear rockets! The Thermal Nuclear Rocket (non-explosive) concept is simple, concentrate enough nuclear fuel together, the mass will heat up. That heat will vaporize volatile (low boiling point) materials without exploding the nuclear fuel itself (think steam/ nuclear power plant). Vaporizing of the volatile materials like water creates pressure /propellant and water when found in space would make great radiation shielding and buildings materials when frozen. Water in space would not have to be placed into orbit cutting the cost of space exploration.

This ISS live feed captured hundreds of bright objects moving through space, frozen puff balls of water that have been creating huge hail storms in strange places here on earth. The sad thing was NASA’s  Donald K. Yeomans now retired  from Jet Propulsion Laboratory/ NASA as a Senior Research Scientist, Supervisor for the Solar System Dynamics Group, and Manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office and I spoke of this phenomena years ago (July, 13, 2009) of an inundation from off planet that Lou Frank had documented now 31 years ago, that is water coming from space., DISCOVER Vol. 19 No. 01 Snowballs, Flying in From Space, January 1998

Instead Donald K. Yeomans and NASA laughed off Frank’s evidence and decided to go with a Harvard astronomer, Fred Whipple, who in the nineteen fifties developed a theory that  comet’s nuclei were “DIRTY SNOWBALLS.” Even though on July 4th 2005 NASA had already lost that  bet. NASA spent millions of taxpayer dollars only to have Fred Whipple’s “Dirty Snowball Comet Theory” blow up in a “cloud of dust.” NASA thought that “The Deep Impact Mission” was going to the quin-ta accentual comet “Tempel 1” to confirm that comets were “Dirty Snowballs full of water.” However, the “Impactor” drilled a dry hole! The Deep Impact Mission’s copper Impactor found comet Tempel to be a dry rock, covered with less than ¼ inch of light snow according to my conversation with Yeomans

NASA has sent many missions on this “Quest to find its White Whale”, water in space. Only to have its hopes  crushed like a thin glass Christmas decoration under a child’s foot. However, a short video clip taken out of a longer video taken aboard the Inter National Space Station (ISS) on July 6, 2021 finally gave NASA its glimpse of its “White Whale.” Many bright white flying objects come from different locations in space, however, they all follow a fixed trajectory and fly at different speeds, it seems most of them come from one location. However, these bright white objects are not new discovery to NASA.They have known of them for over 30 years.Just not in these numbers.

 The UAE robotic European Space Agency cometary  mission was launched in 2004  and. arrived on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko,  12 November 2014, 10 years  and 8 months later. On the surface of Comet 67P  Philae lander COSAC collected “ice-poor” dust grains that contained 16 organic compounds, however, there was only a tiny trace of water. European Space Agency had based the mission on the “Dirty Snowball Theory ” and had hoped of  vast amounts of water from the comet. That hope was crushed.

 Even as the European Space Agency Philae lander was on its way to its comet, a strange thing happened (MADHUR SINGH / NEW DELHI Saturday, Sep. 26, 2009) Working on the L.C.R.O.S.S. Orbiter mission with NASA preparing for the mission India’s Space Agency and the SWAS’s scanned the moon’s surface . Indian Space Research Organization chief Madhavan Nair and Principal Scientist Chandrayaan, J.N. Goswami found and anomalous  presence of water on the lunar surface, and released data showing water vapor escaping over the Moon’s surface.

Water that the failed “Dirty Snowball Theory” cannot explain. NASA was “CONFOUNDED” Where did the Moon’s escaping  water vapor come from? Even though Lou Frank had told them of these renegade fluff balls of snow adrift in space. Consequently, on October, 10, 2009, when two of NASA’s space craft went crashing into what NASA thought to be a water ice-filled craters at the Moon’s south pole: those space crafts did as much damage as a bullet fired into a drift of powered snow, crushing NASA’s hopes to find a source of water for its needs.

Without large amounts of water ice on the moon and comets NASA had to reconfigure its future of man space exploration: the reason being that water ice it found was minimal and fluffy. The ice from a dirty snowball comet should have been hard and compacted. NASA also can’t figure out why the water ice of the moon eats their probes like the cotton in a ballistic testing chamber. 

NASA has spent at least a billion dollars  to locate its propellant for its nuclear rockets in space based on Fred Whipple’s “Dirty Snowball Comet Theory”, that had Failed!  However, the new sighting of NASA’s “White whale” on July 6, 2021 gave new life to projects that  had been developed in the mid-1960s that had been “Moth Balled”:those projects were suddenly put on NASA’S front burner. A proven nuclear water steam rocket system (KIWI B4-1965 and KIWI TNT -1965).

The video that was taken aboard the Inter National Space Station (ISS) was on July 6, 2021 that gave NASA its glimpse of its “White Whale”. Then NASA gave its nuclear rocket program an instant boost. Because, a week later NASA released this:

WASHINGTON, July 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/

– NASA is leading an effort, working with the Department of Energy (DOE), to advance space nuclear technologies. The government team has selected three reactor design concept proposals for a nuclear thermal propulsion system. The reactor is a critical component of a nuclear thermal engine, which would utilize high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel.

The contracts, to be awarded through the DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL), are each valued at approximately $5 million. They fund the development of various design strategies for the specified performance requirements that could aid in deep space exploration.