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Message: <blockquote data-quote="alientouch" data-source="post: 9667191" data-attributes="member: 332384">Also, an Apollo moon mission involved literally tens of thousands of people, from servicing technicians to flight controllers. Is it realistic to assume that after almost four decades, no one has talked?Who was the crew of Apollo 18?The identities of NASA astronauts in the early 1970s were well known. If, as one suspects, the movie will show the guys not exactly making it back or making it back in a condition that requires their permanent residence in an isolation facility at Area 51, then one has to assume the crew was not part of the NASA program and was part of a secret, military program. There was actually a military manned space program in the early 1960s, but it was closed down during the Johnson administration and most of the military astronauts transitioned over to NASA.Or, if we accept the film's premise, were they?What kind of creature can survive the lack of breathable atmosphere, the intense heat and cold, and radiation on the lunar surface? One hopes there is an answer to that question that would seem scientifically sensible. Finally, why keep an Apollo mission secret anyway? Surely if the purpose was to hunt for aliens, there could have been a cover story. But that would make a different movie entirely. Maybe the mission was classified to keep Sen. William Proxmire, an opponent of human space flight, from finding out."Apollo 18" is scheduled to open April 22 in the U.S.Mark R. Whittington is the author of Children of Apollo and The Last Moonwalker. He has written on <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/news/ac/sc_ac/storytext/7871984_obama_nasa_funding_request_gets_hostile_reception_from_congress/40231286/ac/pl_ac/7881514_nasas_budget_slashed_to_hire_police/40249904/ac/tr_ac/7889722_nasa_commercial_space_operations_to_be_located_in_florida_not_texas/40267328/ac/en_ac/7895630_apollo_18_movie_raises_questions_about_secret_missions_to_the_moon/40283014/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110112/sc_ac/7594136_nasas_congressionally_mandated_vehicle_to_cost_more_and_take_longer#" target="_blank">space subjects</a> for a variety of periodicals, including The Houston Chronicle, The Washington Post, USA Today, the L.A. Times, and The Weekly Standard.</blockquote>

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