This is the story of Ken Johnston, a NASA archivist, a whistle blower, a man who unveiled a curtain hiding the background of some secret activities NASA.

Dr. R. Ken Johnston senior, one of four civilian astronauts, pilot advisors from the Apollo Monthly Program (now retired), former aeronautical astronaut engineer and marine, and NASA whistleblower. He fundamentally refused to carry out the order from above and thus destroy the archive materials from the program Apollo with almost a whole collection of snapshots of size 21 x 25 cm. Photographs that are not currently available to the public from NASA and are in a higher resolution than is usually available online on the Internet.

Ken Johnston was born at Fort Sam Houston Air Force Base in San Antonio in 1942. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma and joined the U.S. Army in August 1962. In September 1964 he joined Pensacola as a naval cadet for flight training and left active service in the Navy in August 1966.

With his pilot experience he started working for the company Grumman Aircraft Corp. as the main contractor for tests of the Apollo Lunar Module. He worked on the development and improvement of aviation equipment, and like civilian astronaut - pilot consultant took part in the training of astronauts in Manned Space Center, later renamed to Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. During the program Apollo Johnston worked from 1966 to 1972 as a contractor for the company Brown & Root Northroup, which was NASA 's main supplier for management Special Lunar Laboratory. She managed and stored all the collected stones and samples from the Moon, cataloged them, and even in some cases sent them to scientists who had successfully applied for analysis in their own laboratories.

An important part of Johnston's work was the performance of photographic and other preliminary analyzes on lunar specimens that were sent to scientists around the world. The photographic documentation consisted in recording the exact location and orientation of the monthly sample on its original location on the Moon's surface. In addition to photos, he provided scientists with copies of the monthly sample catalog information. Johnston was in his office several series of photos, which Apollo astronauts were photographed with his chest mounted by Hasselblad camera. When the monthly samples were distributed finished, his boss Bud Laskawa ordered him to destroy the rest of the photographic archive, but Johnston refused to leave one set as a personal collection in memory of this work, and he gave a suite to the local university.

Johnston wanted to become a true astronaut, and when 1977 was the choice of astronauts, he filed an application with NASA. But he was rejected because NASA's ideal astronaut had to have the required PhD degree. and not just some rapid-flowing, some  jet jockey (jet-jock). And in the next selection of astronauts, he was found to be too old. He then worked for NASA in the public relations section as an educator Consultant for the Solar System, who traveled and gave lectures to the public and young people on space exploration and possible careers in engineering and science.