"**As in the 1974 movie Capricorn I, Apollo missions took off with no
astronauts aboard and went into orbit. Then the 3rd stage took an unmanned
spacecraft to the Moon, where it performed a lunar landing, lowered a
seismometer, ejected a laser reflector, transmitted back prerecorded manned
audio and video, then dug up Moon rocks and returned them to Earth. Later,
the crew in a burned capsule were dropped from a C-5a aircraft into the
Pacific for recovery. Some of the real Moon rocks were then traded with
the Russians for real Moon rocks they has just obtained with their own
unmanned lunar lander and return craft. Larger amounts of phony Moon rocks
were manufactured on Earth and sent to laboratories for analysis and put on
public display."
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Ha ha ha hahahaha!!
Oh my aching ribs! thank you for cheering me up on a rather drab Monday morning.

That 3rd stage vehicle was some piece of work, eh? I bet we can't construct anything like that right now. Gosh how technology has slipped in the past 30 years.

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