Charles protests the morality of the scheme and asks what happens if they don't comply. When the module returns to Earth, they will be flown to the ocean landing and placed inside the capsule before the recovery vessel arrives. Kelloway assures the three men that they are only required to participate in the live television transmissions from the Mars landing and flight. He says that mission control in Houston knows nothing of this staging because they are receiving information from the real command module in space, as well as the astronauts' voice and medical data recorded during the practice simulations. To reveal the only available solution, Kelloway takes the three astronauts into the warehouse where a set has been built of a space capsule on the Mars surface. However, aborting the mission would destroy NASA's reputation and funding, considering the skepticism for space exploration within the current administration, as well as the waning interest among the public. James Kelloway, explains to the astronauts that the life-support system, supplied by a greedy contractor, was recently discovered to be faulty, and it would have only kept them alive for three weeks. Meanwhile, the spacecraft is launched, and the control room in Houston, Texas is not aware that it is unmanned. From the launch site, they are flown on a NASA Learjet to an abandoned military base in the desert. As the Command pilot Charles Brubaker and his fellow astronauts, Peter Willis and John Walker, are performing final checks inside the capsule, an official opens the hatch and demands that they leave the craft immediately due to an emergency. At Cape Canaveral, Florida on the morning of 4 Jan, NASA readies the spacecraft Capricorn One, the first manned mission to Mars, for launch.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. The three men escape, hoping that one of them will live to expose the sensational cover-up.
For the sake of the nation's morale and the future of NASA funding, they are coerced into taking part in an elaborate charade - but when the captive astronauts learn their capsule burned up on re-entry and the world believes them dead, they know their very existence now poses a threat to national security. Minutes before the launch of their mission, the Capricorn One crew are told to exit their capsule and are secretly taken to an abandoned desert hangar.
However, the plan is compromised when an ambitious journalist discovers the conspiracy.Īs the whole world watches the first manned flight to Mars, its three astronauts are plunged into a nightmarish battle for survival. To prevent a public outcry, NASA launches the capsule unmanned and requires the astronauts to film fake mission footage in a studio.
But when a mechanical failure surfaces that would kill the three men, NASA removes them from the Capricorn One capsule. Three astronauts are about to launch into space on the first mission to Mars. Only an intrepid journalist stands in the way of the cover-up, but the powers that be will stop at nothing to keep their secret from going public. But when the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched. Mankind's Greatest Achievement.or Mankind's Biggest Hoax? It was supposed to be the crowning moment in the history of space travel.
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