Nice show - a welcome addition to Video Dog.

Whether our culture recognizes it or not, today's astronauts are just as brave and heroic as ever. Space travel is just as difficult, just as hazardous. Not to mention the many NASA people who work so hard here on Earth, on lots of science and research such as global warming.

I plan to see the film, for sure. Perhaps there will be a glimpse of one of the Gemini-era rockets that my father built igniters for at Aerojet General.

Also, if you get the NASA channel, it often runs old documentaries made back in the day, which are a trip to watch.

I saw this vid on the IFC channel last night. I was surprised & pleased. Looking forward to the movie also.

I thought it had been proven that the moon landing was a hoax, wasn't there a news show a few years back that broke the story?

So were all the moon landers asked what is like to be a liar?

Because I have a touchy uncle who lives in a cabin in Montana and makes bombs from scratch to send to futurists in order to prevent the technological singularity. He told me that the whole thing was a lie and that it was all faked. When I asked him about all the people in the control room, the experiments that were conducted on the surface, the rocks that were brought back, and the fact that there were multiple missions to the moon involving dozens of Astronauts, he gave me a tasty piece of candy that made my head spin and left me with a sore ass in the morning.

Are you calling my uncle a liar, sir?

Here's how it goes:

Supposedly, while in pre-production for 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, Stanley Kubrick was approached by agents of the government and some NASA scientists. They told him that they would provide all of the latest models, schematics, design drawings and so forth of current and future NASA projects so that 2001 could be the masterpiece that it is, on the condition that he film a faked moon landing. Supposedly they didn't have enough money for the Saturn launch. Kubrick took them up on the offer, as did Douglas Trumbul, and on pain of death were sworn to absolute secrecy. And of course both men being the geniuses they were, they pulled it off.

The fact that the above is certifiable, Grade A, USDA Choice horseshit has not dissuaded the tinfoil hat crowd from believing it. Hollywood even (ironically) made a movie about in the 70s entitled CAPRICORN ONE. Even more ironic is that all nonsensical plot elements aside, it's actually one hell of a movie. James Brolin, *cough* O.J. Simpson, Hal Holbrook, Elliot Gould, Telly Savalas...can't go wrong there.