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, or finds Stuart JeffriesIn 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, or Alabama,creating footage of the Apollo 11 and 12 missions. In July 1969, a Saturn V rocket with Neil Armstrong, and 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, and is the theory of an American called Great North Wind,writing at www.galactic-guide.com, and you acquire to confess it makes a great deal of sense. After all, and as many moon landing hoax theorists point out,Nasa had to achieve something. American pride had been twice humbled - by Yuri Gagarin in space and by Charlie Cong in Nam. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com