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Were the Lunar Landings
Faked?
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This week Buzz Aldrin, 72, punched a man who suggested
that the missions to the moon were a hoax. But does anyone still believe
that old chestnut? Yes indeed, finds Stuart Jeffries.
In 1968, the
film director Stanley Kubrick was secretly approached by NASA officials.
They asked him to direct the first three moon landings from a special set.
As a result, Kubrick worked for 16 months at a specially-built sound stage
in Huntsville, Alabama, creating footage of the Apollo 11 and 12 missions.
In July 1969, a Saturn V rocket with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and
Michael Collins on board was launched into a low orbit and remained there
while Kubrick's footage was released to the media. The three men made a
perfect splash down in the Pacific after millions of television viewers
had been captivated by the so-called moon landing. Months afterwards, he
filmed the Apollo 12 mission in the same way.
This, at least, is
the theory of an American called Great North Wind, writing at
www.galactic-guide.com, and you have to admit it makes a great deal of
sense. After all, as many moon landing hoax theorists point out, NASA had
to do something. American pride had been twice humbled - by Yuri Gagarin
in space and by Charlie Cong in Nam.
That said; there are holes in
Great North Wind's theory. He continues: "Kubrick refused to direct the
Apollo 13 mission, however, because NASA officials rejected his screenplay
in which the Apollo 13 mission fails. Ironically, NASA later decided to
use the failed-mission scenario, for which Randall Cunningham - a little
known but highly respected British director - was recruited to direct.
Extensive research has found that Cunningham is not a highly respected
British director, but an occasionally brilliant former quarterback for the
Baltimore Ravens. Mr. (or possibly Ms) Wind is possibly hoaxing us with
his moon landing hoax. But we may never know the truth: Kubrick is now
dead, which makes it hard to check, and Great North Wind has not replied
to my e-mails.
You may think Wind's theory is a little
far-fetched, but if you are so clever, how do you explain the fact that
O.J. Simpson was framed for murder by the U.S. government? If you accept
the account set out at www.straightdope.com, it was because Simpson helped
to expose the lie that Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon. How did he
do that? By appearing in Peter Hyams' 1978 film Capricorn One. In that
picture, Simpson, along with Sam Waterston and James Brolin, plays an
astronaut forced to stage the first manned mission to Mars in a desert.
But the men decide not to play ball and go on the run, pursued by
government hit-men. But if this film was an embarrassment to the U.S.
government, why did it wait until 1995 to frame Simpson for murder? And
why didn't Waterston, Hyams and Brolin get framed too? The people at
Straight Dope haven't returned my calls.
This many-tentacled
conspiracy becomes a topical issue now that alleged Apollo 11 astronaut
Buzz Aldrin has thumped a man who claimed that his moon landing was
actually filmed in the Nevada desert. This man, one Bart Sibrel, has made
documentaries called “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon” and
“Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?” He confronted Aldrin, 72, in
a Beverly Hills hotel earlier this week. Sibrel, 37, demanded that Aldrin
swear on a Bible that he had really landed on the moon. Aldrin declined to
do so, and then his fist really landed on Sibrel's face.
Sibrel
claims to have uncovered 33-year-old footage that shows the Apollo 11 crew
falsifying part of their photography (which at least might get Kubrick off
the hook). He claims that the Apollo 11 crew put a transparency of the
Earth in front of their space-capsule window and then taped the
transparency as they made a "journey" to the moon.
"Surrounding
the Earth, beginning at an altitude of 1,000 miles and extending an
additional 25,000 miles, lies lethal bands of radiation called the Van
Allen radiation belts," Sibrel tells me. "Recently uncovered footage of
the crew of the Apollo 11 staging part of their mission proves that the
astronauts never made it beyond Earth orbit."
But the hoax didn't
end there. Footage purportedly from the moon shows the U.S. flag
fluttering in the lunar breeze. "How could there be a breeze when there is
no atmosphere?" Sibrel asks. Sibrel is one of many who believe the moon
remains untouched by human space-boots. Ralph Rene, author of “NASA Mooned
America,” says that NASA photographs allegedly from the moon's surface
show scenes supposedly lit solely by sunlight, but they contain shadows
that do not run parallel with each other, indicating supplemental
artificial light. Sunlight would cast shadows that would never intersect,
he claims.
But the best hoax theorist is Bill Kaysing, author of
“We Never Went to the Moon.” He claims: "The astronauts would have been
overwhelmed by the sight of trillions of stars. But not one picture has
ever come back from the alleged trip to the moon showing the stars in all
their magnificence, nor do any of the astronauts comment on the stars."
Kaysing reckons that the Challenger space shuttle really did blow
up in 1981, but that it was no accident. It was exploded by NASA because,
"Christa McAuliffe, the only civilian and only woman aboard, refused to go
along with the lie that you couldn't see stars in space. So they blew her
up, along with six other people, to keep that lie under wraps."
Murders, trick photography, the possible involvement of a
secretive top film director, a massive fiction by hundreds of conspirators
over more than 33 years - the moon landing hoax was a remarkable
achievement … almost as remarkable as landing a man on the moon.
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