"Randy A." wrote:
>
>
> The person that pointed out how difficult it would be to keep something like
> that a secret is right on the money.  There were near to 100,000 people
> involved if not over that number counting the subcontractors and people in
> other friendly countries that helped monitor the space flights and moon
> landings.
>
> Randy
>

There's an Aussie movie called "The Dish" that's well worth a look.
It's a
fictional comedy about the Parkes Radio Observatory in NSW when it was
used to relay TV transmissions of Armstrong & Aldrin's moonwalk. The
movie has these three stooges-type characters bumblimg around when the
US ambassador shows up at the telescope to listen firsthand to the
astronauts on the moon. Little does he know that the chuckle heads
have just wiped the computer and consequently have "lost" Apollo 11.
So
they rig up their own "lunar connection" to Armstrong et al to gull
the ambassador. Trouble is the intellectually challenged security
guard picks up the Tx on his walkie talkie and thinks _he's_ talking
to Niel & Buzz. Quite funny.

Er  .. I better mention that Parkes has a blurb about the movie in
their display room and in fact there was a team of about 80 Australian
& American engineers on the job, you're _not_ allowed to play cricket
on the dish and the US ambassador never visited Parkes anyway.

Jus' my 2c worth,  Ian.

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