Capricorn A single occurs as 1978 thriller movie about a Mars landing hoax. It was written & directed by Peter Hyams and produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company.

The plot

A setting is a present (actually a late 1970s) by having 1 exception: the number one manned mission to Mars is on the pad, ready to last. Whenever NASA realizes that a major subcontractor's faulty life trend lines models project has doomed any risk of a successful flight, it decide to fake a landing like than scrub the mission.

Even as a space ship is astir to leave Earth, a lost crew come flushed from either the ship & flown to an old U.S. Army base deep in the Sonoran Desert. It is so informed that whether it rather it or even non, it might fake a TV footage from either Mars. At first it garbage, however a authorities indicate that their familes is murdered whenever it don't co-work.

When a ship continues to Mars by using there are no of these aboard, a astronauts remain in captivity for the period of many months & come filmed "landing on Mars."

Despite near there come no 1 inside NASA caring a truth, an alarm technician notes something absurdly impossible - a television transmissions are arriving ahead of the ballistic capsule telemetry - ''"It's almost as if they were closer... but those signals couldn't be coming from three hundred miles"'' he tells the journalist. A technician so cryptically disappears & a journalist grows suspicious, & each clue he uncovers resolutions within an attempt in his life.

After a cosmonaut come purportedly astir to splashdown on Earth all about goes wrong. A empty however very capsule burns au courant re-entry, leaving the world sorrowing trinity dead heroes. In case a survive cosmonaut were to & so indicate higher, a conspiracy would exist when contaminated, so a remainder of a film occurs as life and demise hunt as the spaceman attempt to evade NASA/military types world health organization pursue the children to assure that it remain dead heroes.

A motion-picture show significantly increased interest inside Apollo moon landing hoax accusations.

Cast
Elliott Gould as Robert Caulfield James Brolin as Commander Charles Brubaker Sam Waterston as Lieutenant Colonel Peter Willis O. J. Simpson as Commander John Walker Hal Holbrook as Dr. James Kelloway David Doyle as Walter Loughlin, Caulfield's editor