Fake moon landings
This is really about the fake Apollo missions
shareThat's what I was saying, it probably gave people the idea to think about the moon landings being faked. They showed how easily it could be done I guess.
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The director Peter Hyams went on to make 2010, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey which was directed by Stanley Kubrick, who some conspiracy theorists believe was the one who filmed the faked moon landings.
shareWhen you factor in the alleged references in Kubrick's The Shining, Hyams becoming the director of 2010 is like a final wink to the audience.
shareIt's not about "the fake Apollo missions," it's inspired by the idiotic conspiracy theory that Apollo missions were faked.
shareThe director worked on the original broadcasts of the Apollo missions for CBS. When he talked about what inspired him to write Capricorn One, he said: "Whenever there was something on the news about a space shuttle, they would cut to a studio in St. Louis where there was a simulation of what was going on. I grew up in the generation where my parents basically believed if it was in the newspaper it was true. That turned out to be bullsh!t. My generation was brought up to believe television was true, and that was bullsh!t too. So I was watching these simulations and I wondered what would happen if someone faked a whole story."
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