The Comedy Produced by the Faked Moon Landing Theory

Fly Me to the Moon is new movie starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in theaters now. It's a romantic comedy about the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that saw the first men walk on the moon. The premise is an alternate history in which NASA was simultaneously trying to get men to the moon, and staging a fake mission to present to the public just in case the real one failed. If that's not romantic comedy material, I don't know what is.

The movie riffs off the conspiracy theory that the moon shot was completely faked, an idea that sprang up almost immediately after the Apollo 11 mission. A conspiracy like that would have involved too many people to ever succeed, and might have been even more difficullt than landing on the moon. NASA is fine with Fly Me to the Moon, and even cooperated in its making. This movie is far from the first to address the conspiracy theory, and Smithsonian introduces us to several other other films that include a faked space mission in one way or another, along with the history of the faked moon landing theory itself.


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