By: Willy E. Coyote, Local Historian
Today marks the 55 year anniversary of the 1969 American ‘moon landing’ when ‘astronauts’ Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong supposedly set foot on the lunar surface.
Official America will mark this is a cause for celebration, but the only achievement was the greatest, and most elaborate, con-job in human history.
I have seen evidence, much of it online, which proves that the ‘landing’ took place on a sound stage in LA and was directed by the great Stanley Kubrick.
Kubrick knew more about space than all the NASA lads combined, as he’d made 2001: A Space Odyssey the year before. That had been filmed in space. And he’d survived the evil HAL computer that would eventually take human form as Bill Gates.
He used NASA employees as actors to make it look real. Armstrong, in particular, was a frustrated thespian hence his hammy ‘one small step’ line. Kubrick hated working with that hack.
It is no coincidence that the moon landings abruptly ended in 1972. The official line was the cost was prohibitive, but the reality was NASA got cold feet about using Kubrick following the release of his transgressive 1971 classic A Clockwork Orange.
There was talk of reviving the ‘program’ in the 90s under Ron Howard, but no one in NASA could take Richie Cunningham seriously, so they sat on it.