A date for all space fanciers: put a cross next to 4 July on your calendars,
and cross your fingers that the Mars probe lands as planned. In Britain, you can
take a weekend on Mars by tuning in to BBC2, which plans to report the landing,
adding a few Mars movies for good measure. But isn’t it a little tactless of the
station to include a showing of the film Capricorn One, clearly the starter film
for NASA-faked-the-Moon-landing conspiracy?
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