Overall an enjoyable movie, though somewhat flawed.
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No black astronauts flew in the Apollo program, but at the time the movie was made there were a number in training who later flew on the Space Shuttle. Something similar could perhaps have been done for a Martian flyby mission, but landing or even going into orbit would have been impossible and the whole mission would have taken far longer than the six months or so that elapse in the film.įinally, I am pleased to see that the movie was a little progressive, with one of the astronauts being black (astronaut John Walker, played by OJ Simpson). There were plans in the Apollo Applications program for a manned Venus flyby using Apollo derived hardware, but that would not have attempted to land or even go into orbit, and also planned to use the third stage of the booster as a "wet lab" for extra living space for the mission, which would have taken more than a year. The hardware simply could not have done that. In the movie we see them sending the crew to Mars using Apollo hardware - launch on a single Saturn V, Apollo Command Module used to travel to Mars, Apollo Lunar Lander used to land and take off from Mars. My own objections to the story are technical. The danger of the samples and films from the surface being recognised as fake is neatly dealt with by having them all destroyed when the capsule burns up on reentry. It was written and directed by Peter Hyams and produced by Lew Grades ITC Entertainment. This might be long enough to allow the program to resolve technical issues and mount a successful Capricorn 2 mission.įaking the transmissions and data could be done relatively easily, given that the Viking landers had shown everyone what the surface of Mars looked like, allowing a convincing mockup to be made for the broadcasts. Capricorn One is a 1978 American thriller in which a reporter discovers that a supposed Mars landing by a crewed mission to the planet has been faked via a conspiracy involving the government andunder duressthe crew themselves. While I would not expect the secret to last forever, I could imagine a small number of people could keep it for ten years or so, especially once the astronauts themselves had been disposed of. The number of people in on the faking could probably be kept pretty small - the camera crews, the folks patching it in to the comms system, a few others. RE the practicality of faking the Mars mission - it may not have been so difficult as all that. More action thriller than science fiction, but enjoyable. I recently watched this movie for the first time.
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