Wait a sec...

You're suggesting that because a James Bond movie showed a "fake" lunar surface (er, make that a fake fake lunar surface, since it was a movie set of a fake lunar surface), that this is somehow evidence that the Apollo missions were faked?

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This follows how?
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If I recall that scene correctly, it took place in the facility of a NASA contractor; there was a guy in an EVA suit on the fake moon, picking up rocks with a long tool. JB hijacks his lunar rover and uses it to escape.

You don't suppose they might have wanted to give the astronaut some training before they sent him up there? You don't suppose they might have needed to show this to give our hero a plausible reason to stumble across a vehicle he could escape in -- one that would make for an interesting and unusual chase sequence?

Man, sometimes I just can't believe how [insert invective here] some people can be.

Addendum: just read the Clavius refutation of the HB claims about Fleming. While it easily refutes the idea that Fleming himself might have been a lunar-hoax whistle blower, it doesn't address the question of why the scene was there, leaving open the possibility that somebody else involved in the production was a whistle blower. But as I tried to express above, there's no mystery as to why the scene was included.

Remember, when the movie was written, the general public had never seen a lunar rover. If Bond was to escape in one, there had to be a setup shot so that people would understand what that funny-looking go-kart thing was. Hence the scene of a practice lunar EVA.


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