Stanley Kubrick Filmed It

Director Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey wowed audiences in 1968 for creating a realistic image of outer space.It was so compelling that some conspiracy theorists later wondered if the government had actually hired Kubrick to film the moon landing in a soundstage (possibly like the one James Bond ran through in the 1971 film Diamonds Are Forever).The thing is, the moon landing footage didn't look real because Kubrick filmed it—Kubrick's movie 2001 looked real because Kubrick enlisted astronomical artists and aerospace engineers to help him with it.