First Meteorologist on the Moon

With all the news on the moon this week, has anyone noticed our space program is all about the past? Sad.

Anyone, this picture reminded me of the story they forgot to tell. He was the first meteorologist sent to the moon. He thought he was going to measure the weather, but NASA thought meteorologists studied meteors. Who knew?

This poor weather geek got up there and found there was no wind wo measure (who knew?), so he put a stick in his flag to pretend like there was, and then logged "3-5 kts out of the SW. He brought a satellite kit to download TIROS imagery, and set up his little dish. He was quite surprised to see WeFax images of some clouds in an un-decipherable location in on Earth. The moon had no clouds! This lead to another log entry, into a green navy standard log-book, since he was an 1800 of course.

Finally what NASA never told anyone was that they were so embarassed about the meteor/meteorologist thing they had to pull a JFK on this guy, and left him on the moon to "monitor" changes in lunar weather. The LRO satellite has recently take the images you see here of our frozen weather-geek proudly serving his country on the moon! - HLG