The Secret History of NASA

NASA made a contract with the South Korean space agency to put the shadow cam, which of course is really NASA's camera to photograph the domes. Why would NASA want to secretly under recover story photograph in those dark craters at the South Pole? Because if they're going to land, they need to know where the holes are so they can safely send a mission down to land on the surface without killing everybody. And obviously at that stage of the game, they weren't going to admit it in public. So Mike Nailin, who is the cover up king of NASA photography, remember he was a principal investigator on the Mars surveyor mission to photograph Sedonia and then Mars observer before