was justifiably proud of its space program a $27000.00 russian film tells the story of cosmonaut aleksei leon of the 1st man to walk in space leon of left his orbiting capsule on march 18th 1965 and spent 12 minutes floating around outside. by the time he returned to earth soviet space officials had decided that leon of was to be part of moscow's 1st lunar mission but the project was later cancelled. was the moon landing faked a 2002 french mockumentary alleges that green down director stanley kubrick shot the scenes at a studio acting under orders from the cia the film claims that the idea for faking the landing originally came from president nixon. baby came very aware how important the visual spectacle expect going to be at 1st i didn't take it very seriously and never thought mode. that it could go in order before but then one of the presidential advisors i don't know general alexander haig or rumsfeld. said hesitantly. why do you we feel the 1st steps on the moon in the studio and then if we fail we can always show those pictures to the public. the film is best understood as satire as op