Capricorn One
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Movie (1978)
Starring:
Elliott Gould (Robert Caulfield)
James Brolin (Charles Brubaker)
Brenda Vaccaro (Kay Brubaker)
Sam Waterson (Peter Willis)
O.J. Simpson (John Walker)
Hal Holbrook (Dr. James Kelloway)
NASA feigns a Mars landing using a real (empty) space shuttle, Capricorn One, sent into space, and its three astronauts, Brubaker, Willis and Walker, filmed on a soundstage at an Air Force base. When the shuttle burns up on re-entry, Brubaker and his men, realizing now NASA will have to produce three corpses to make the hoax complete, escape from the base and are pursued by the government that betrayed them.
Bell 206
NASA helicopter which flies the astronauts to the airstrip.
Hughes OH-6 Cayuse
These two helicopters chase the astronauts following their escape from the base.