A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon is a 2001 film written, produced and directed by Nashvillebased filmmaker Bart Sibrel. Sibrel is a critic of the Apollo program and proponent of the conspiracy theory that the six Apollo Moon landing missions between 1969 and 1972 were elaborate hoaxes perpetrated by the United States government, including NASA.

Bart Sibrel believes that there were numerous insurmountable scientific and technical problems which made it improbable that men could land on the Moon and return to Earth safely. Further, he believes that certain supposed anomalies and inconsistencies in NASAs records of the landings point to a hoax, and that the Space Race was actually a race to develop armaments. He claims that NASA perpetrated a fraud because of the perception that if the United States could land men on the Moon before the Soviet Union, it would be a major victory in the Cold War, since the Soviets had been the first to achieve a successful space launch Sputnikin 1957, the first manned space flight Vostokin 1961, and the first spacewalk Voskhodin 1965.The 47minute film primarily focuses on the Van Allen radiation belt, areas of intense radiation circling the Earth, as a major reason that Sibrel believes it was impossible for a manned spacecraft to land on the Moon. ........

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