Marcus also addresses researcher Jay Weidner's theory that Stanley Kubrick was responsible for directing fake footage of the lunar surface, and discusses the 1977 movie Capricorn One, whose plot echoes a great many elements of the story - as does a particular sequence of the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever.
"Nasa" is an old Hebrew word, meaning something like elevation (if I remember correctly).
If you really want to expose the NASA science fiction program I suggest you investigate the Nazis Frederick Ordway and Wernher von Braun. Some "conspiracy theorists" even claim that Von Braun was involved in the JFK assassination...
If you want to understand how science fiction stories have been used to control the masses, you could research member of the Round Table H.G. Wells.
In 2013, banker’s son
Frederick Ira Ordway III (1927-2014) was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award.
Ordway had been a huge fan of science fiction on space travel since he since he was 10. In 1941, Ordway became a member of the American Rocket Society, while working for Nazi Germany...
In 1950, Ordway first met science fiction writer
Arthur C. Clarke, who helped him to become a fellow of the British Interplanetary Society. They became long-time friends.
Ordway became a top official at NASA and worked closely with
Wernher von Braun, including on the Apollo program.
In 1965, Ordway met Clarke who was working with movie director Stanley Kubrick on a science fiction movie based on his story “
The Sentinel”. After Clarke called Kubrick, Ordway was swiftly asked to become the “scientific and technical advisor” to the film that became “
2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968):
http://web.archive.org/web/20180117075245/http://www.clarkefoundation.org/2013/10/lifetime-achievement-frederick-i-ordway-iii/NASA’s Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, George Mueller, nicknamed the film’s production facilities for “
2001: A Space Odyssey” - NASA East.
See from left to right NASA officials touring MGM Borehamwood during pre-production of “
2001: A Space Odyssey”: Fred Ordway, Deke Slayton (astronaut), Arthur C. Clarke, anonymous NASA assistant, Stanley Kubrick, and George C. Mueller.
Ordway wasn’t only working on the movie with NASA officials, but also with major corporations like General Electric, Bell Telephone Laboratories and IBM.
The name of the robot star of the movie “HAL” is notably only one letter removed from “IBM”.
Ordway explained about “rocket scientists”:
They all read H. G. Wells and Jules Verne. Science fiction got us all started in the early days, I think without exception.
In 1949, Arthur C. Clarke helped to make his friend Von Braun an honorary member of the British Interplanetary Society (the other parts of the following story are also worthwhile):
http://thetruthseekersguide.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-stanley-kubrick-conspiracy-part-3.html