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Capricorn One (1977)
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A public technological achievement becomes a problem of who controls images, witnesses and an official explanation. Peter Hyams gives the premise a clear practical suspense line. This is a fictional conspiracy thriller, not evidence for real space-programme hoaxes; its entertaining suspicion concerns the manufacture and policing of a story.
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In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.