From: "Mansel A. Nelson" <man2@tntnet.slc.nau.edu>
Subject: Re: RE Coded message to the moon
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 20:31:54 -0700 (MST)
Errors-to: mail-mgr@quest.arc.nasa.gov I am on Navajo Nation and NASA is coming back for testing - this time to test the Mars Rover. I passed your story to the NASA engineers. man =-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Mansel A. Nelson ___====-_ _-====___ Community Liaison, Colorado Chemistry Teacher, _--^^^#####// \\#####^^^--_ Plateau Coalition Tuba City High School ########// ( ) \\####### Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New -############// |\^^/| \\############- Mexico (UCAN) Adjunct Faculty,############// (@::@) \\##### Rural Systemic Initative Navajo Community College ##(( \\// ))#############\ (RSI) -###############\\ (oo) //###############- Instructor,-#################\\ / ** \ //#################- Northern Arizona University ##\\/ \//###################- _#/|##########/\######( /\ )######/\##########|\#_ |/ |#/\#/\#/\/ \#/\##\ | | /##/\#/ \/\#/\#/\#| \| ' |/ V V ' V \#\| | | |/#/ V ' V V \| ' http://warrior.tubacity.k12.az.us/~man2| \ ' ' ' ' man2@tntnet.slc.nau.edu ( | | | | ) PO Box 67, Tuba City, AZ 86045 man2@dana.ucc.nau.edu __\ | | | | /__ 520 283 4353 (W) 283 5105 (Fax) http://tntnet.slc.nau.edu/~man2 VVV)(VVV)vvv) 520 283 6291 (W) 523 7160 (W) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Sat, 28 Sep 1996, Laura Bashlor wrote: > Dear LFM Folk, > > The following message has been forwarded several times, so I am > assuming it is not privileged. I have snipped info on several of the > forwards, but the original source was not included. Whether true or > apocryphal, it is an interesting story. ...Laura (MI) > > > ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- > > Subj: a codetalker speaks > Date: 96-09-27 13:56:36 EDT > > A few months before the 1st apollo moonwalk, > a NASA team travelled to the painted desert north of Tuba City AZ; the > terrain there looks much like the Lunar surface. > > Along with all the vehicles and equipment came two large figures > dressed in spacesuits. From some distance an aged Navajo > and his son watched as the spacesuited pair walked about. > The two Navajos were noticed and approached by the NASA folks. > The son declared that the old one, who spoke in the old tongue only, had > asked in that tongue what the spacesuited pair was up to. A NASA > spokesperson [back then, alas, called a spokesMAN] explained that they > were getting ready to go to the moon. This news greatly excited the old > man; his son said he wanted to know if they would carry a message from > him to the moon. > > The NASA folks thought this was a great idea. > After the old man had spoken into their tape recorder, > his son was asked to translate...but could not...or would not.... > similar efforts with other Navajos failed also... > until at last a fistful of dollars wangled this translation: > "Watch out for these guys, they come to take your land." > >