So who at the top knew about the cover-up? Hollis? The VP? ?
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Eric-62-2 — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 03:06 PM)
Peaker doesn't come off as much of a good guy to me. Yes, he's big about the program, but he comes off more like the local Congressman looking out for the interests of his District, which depend on the space program, and not because he's some idealist. He can easily be part of those "Forces" that would tell Kelloway to get the astronauts in line or else. Peaker would have a lot to lose in terms of his re-election and his political power if he saw jobs fleeing his district because the program folded up.
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ralph_2ndedition — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 10:17 PM)
Ok, yeah. I get that Perhaps "good guy" was kind of off.
But he does genuinly seem surprised and disheartened when the heat shield seperation-news hits I guess he could be part of it, but I always liked all the sharp, ironic and smart-assy replies he gave the VP at the launch.so to keep my experience of the movie intact, I'll count him out.
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Eric-62-2 — 6 years ago(December 30, 2019 10:29 PM)
I have just seen the longer "preview" cut of the film that has been released on Blu-Ray in Japan (but playable on US machines). The additional footage consists of a "docking" sequence early in the flight that is primarily done to show Whitter (Robert Walden) first noticing something is amiss. But during this sequence we can see the Army general who accompanied Congressman Peaker to the launch (who is also later seen in Peaker's office during the VP call) present at the desert base standing behind James B. Sikking who is controlling all the fake telemetry. That to me is the "smoking gun" that Peaker was definitely in on the plot and explains his "Oh, sxxx!" reaction when Brubaker shows up at the cemetery at the end.
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MovieManCin2 — 2 years ago(July 24, 2023 12:12 AM)
It's all bullshit. A conspiracy like this is
impossible,
because there are WAY too many people
(hundreds, perhaps thousands?)
who would have to be silenced. Eventually,
somebody
would have come forward with the truth.
MAGA! FAFO!
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder. 
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