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| Relevant Links: | For Immediate Release -- Contact: David Jinks, Director, FACETS March 23, 2001 Olympia, WA - A space exploration activist group, the Formal Action Committee for Extraterrestrial Studies (FACETS), has taken the first step toward possible legal action against the U.S. space agency for an alleged failure to follow through with earlier promises involving imagery of Mars acquired by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS). FACETS has retained the services of Arizona attorney Peter A. Gersten, best known for his successful Freedom of Information Act challenges against the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency in the early 1980s. A demand letter written by Gersten on behalf of FACETS was recently sent to NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin. The letter asks NASA to train the MGS camera on targets deemed highly anomalous by a number of scientists, including former U.S. Naval Observatory astronomer Dr. Thomas Van Flandern, former Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer Eugene Mallove and renowned futurist Sir Arthur C. Clarke. NASA has 30 days to respond to the letter, copies of which was also sent to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the California Institute of Technology, Malin Space Science Systems, Sen. John McCain, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and all major television and radio news networks. Among FACETS' complaints against the space agency are allegations that NASA encouraged withholding and misrepresentation of MGS imagery. FACETS is currently soliciting input from all persons, particularly former or current NASA employees, who may have information relevant to the potential lawsuit. Persons interested in joining FACETS are encouraged to e-mail the group at contact@InfoSourceResearch.com. |
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