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Moon landing deniers say there's clear photographic evidence of this, and point out that because there's no breeze on the moon, this must be fake. Apollo 11astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin, on the Moon ...
Iron Sky is a 2012 comic-science-fiction action film directed by Timo Vuorensola and written by Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It tells the story of a group of German Nazis who, having been defeated in 1945, fled to the Moon , where they built a space fleet to return in 2018 and conquer Earth.
The film was a flop in the United States, debuting at number 7 with a gross of $3,002,680 (about $6.5 million today), [11] worse than the opening of Christopher Columbus: The Discovery earlier in the year, and went on to gross just $7 million [13] [14] [15] ($15.2 million today). [11]
Christopher Columbus [b] (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /; [2] between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian [3] [c] explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa [3] [4] who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
On this day in 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus discovered the New World.The Italian explorer first found a Bahamian island, thinking he had reached East Asia. That same day, his ...
James Arthur Lovell Jr. (/ ˈ l ʌ v əl / ⓘ LUV-əl; born March 25, 1928) is an American retired astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8, he became, with Frank Borman and William Anders, one of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon.
For All Mankind is a 1989 documentary film made of original footage from NASA's Apollo program, which successfully prepared and landed the first humans on the Moon from 1968 to 1972. It was directed by Al Reinert, with music by Brian Eno. [1]
Filmink called it "an interesting, dated-really-quickly astronaut drama." [ 6 ] In Visions of the future, relics of the past , a June 1995 story in The New York Times , dealing with the history of spaceflight movies, Thomas Mallon appreciates that the film "highlights the space program's early can-do ethos".