
James Kelloway, the NASA official who's the main orchestrator of the Mars landing hoax and is determined to dispose of anything and anyone who poses a threat to exposing it. Attending Your Own Funeral: The last surviving astronaut makes it to a memorial service for the crew, exposing the conspiracy.Then when Caulfield interviews Brubaker's wife Kay (Brenda Vaccaro), her reaction to something strange Brubaker said helps him realize there's some sort of Government Conspiracy at work. But Elliot is killed, and he's been made an Un-person. The spacecraft is launched empty, and the crew are taken to a remote Air Force base, where they are forced to act out the Mars landing in a studio for the benefit of television cameras.Įlliot Whitter (Robert Walden), one of the technicians at mission control, notices something strange - that the television signals are being transmitted ahead of the telemetry - and tells his reporter friend Robert Caulfield ( Elliott Gould). A poorly made life-support system that would have killed the astronauts three weeks into their trip means they'll have to fake it, as Congress can't afford another screw-up.


Simpson) are the crew for the first manned mission to Mars, Capricorn One. A 1978 American thriller film written and directed by Peter Hyams, Inspired by the Moon landing conspiracy theories.Īstronauts Charles Brubaker ( James Brolin), Peter Willis ( Sam Waterston), and John Walker ( O.
