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Whatever your viewpoint on the issue, it’s a particularly interesting conspiracy theory for those such as Yours Truly who are also fascinated by space and space exploration. These ideas were either debunked or had their inconsistencies explained by experts, and eventually photographic evidence of human visitation came back from probes exploring the Moon’s surface much later, though some of course still persevered with their theories, and still do. Conspiracy theorists claimed that it was all staged and pointed out things like inconsistency of shadows suggesting that artificial lights were used, no stars being seen in space, and the flag placed on the surface fluttering despite there being no wind on the Moon.

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And the only verification we have came from a TV camera.”.

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Then Whitter vanishes….ĭid we really go to the Moon? The question was on the minds of many when Neil Armstrong took that giant leap for mankind, and then flared up again during the release of this 1978 movie which you can tell was inspired by this issue even if you haven’t read writer/director Peter Hyams’s words on the subject such as, “ There was one event of really enormous importance that had almost no witnesses. However, technician Elliot Whitter sees that something is up and alerts a TV journalist friend, Robert Caulfield. The plan is to fake the Mars landing and keep the astronauts at a remote base until the mission is over, and the astronauts are forced to cooperate with threat of their families’ lives held over them. However, seconds before the launch, the three are pulled from the capsule and the rocket leaves earth unmanned, while NASA official James Kelloway tells them that a faulty life-support system would have killed them in-flight and that NASA can’t afford the publicity of a scratched mission.

Starring: Brenda Vaccaro, Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Sam WaterstonĬharles Brubaker, Peter Wallis and John Walker comprise NASA’s first manned mission to Mars.