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Title and Author - SF short about the Moon being fake.
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The short story i'm looking for goes like this.
Astronauts training for a Moon Orbit are training in a mechanical simulator . Essentially they fly many simulated missions in a huge stage set. When the simulator capsule goes behind the moon , the windows shut to simulate it. The moon is a huge prop and only modelled on the light side - it resembles a tennis Ball cut in half from the other side.
NASA are not telling the astonauts when the real mission is. They dont know if they are flying for real or a sim. Then on one simulation , the windows on the capsule fail to close and the astronauts see the " back" of the moon as hollow - they go completely mad!
Anyone recognise it?
Astronauts training for a Moon Orbit are training in a mechanical simulator . Essentially they fly many simulated missions in a huge stage set. When the simulator capsule goes behind the moon , the windows shut to simulate it. The moon is a huge prop and only modelled on the light side - it resembles a tennis Ball cut in half from the other side.
NASA are not telling the astonauts when the real mission is. They dont know if they are flying for real or a sim. Then on one simulation , the windows on the capsule fail to close and the astronauts see the " back" of the moon as hollow - they go completely mad!
Anyone recognise it?
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