Capricorn One illustrates one of these holes, in that a very few people were able to fool the entire world, including the Soviets, who would have screamed bloody murder to the world had they even suspected such a hoax. (Funny how only one "lowly" technician was able to figure it out!) There are too many holes in the various "moon hoax" theories (there are several different theories, having in common only that they all say NASA fabricated the Apollo missions) to mention here. The tech's close friend, a reporter, probes his friend's mysterious disappearance, meeting intrigue and danger along the way. One of the technicians suspects that something isn't quite right with his readings, and tells his bosses about it. So, to keep government funding, he decides to stage the mission on a studio set, and will go to all extremes, including murder, to protect the secret. Government space agency (a fictional NASA) learns that a planned mission to Mars cannot be accomplished. When I first heard of this movie in high school, about the time of its release (it would be years before I would actually see it), I was under the impression that it was sort of an expose, clothed in fiction, of the "moon hoax." Actually, while the makers of this flick were no doubt inspired by these weird theories, they didn't really subscribe to them, which I was gratified to learn.
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