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
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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."
>
>