Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NASA keep the giant spacecraft in orbit...
Saudi Arabia "hurtles into the jet age," but we could carry them much farther. Over the past four years I have urged NASA to put an Arab on the moon (and bring him or her back). The Saudis can easily finance another Apollo mission, NASA could get more scientific data on and from the moon, and our aerospace industry could be rejuvenated by a few billion petrodollars...
Lehigh University James C. Fletcher, LL.D., former head of NASA...
...film's title refers to a NASA mission to send a trio of astronauts (James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, Sam Waterston -don't you love it?) to Mars. Unfortunately for the astronauts, NASA is headed by a devilish schemer (Hal Holbrook) who decides to fake the Mars landing in a TV studio rather than risk failure and a cutoff of appropriations. Predictably, the mad scientist's plans go wrong, wrong, wrong. Capricorn One turns into a vivid chase involving NASA henchmen, an investigative reporter (Elliott Gould), a crop-dusting pilot (Telly Savalas) and a couple of bloodsucking desert...
...Hyams' script does its best to exploit the latest fashions in paranoia. There are interwoven conspiracies and cover-ups; every U.S. Government official on view is a venal scoundrel. Hyams' cynical fantasies about the space program are an especially amusing treat. He suggests, with malicious wit, that NASA'S space walks could actually have taken place on Earth: indeed, he demonstrates that for the price of a video camera and a few buckets of sand, any American can take a giant step for mankind in the privacy of his own home...