posted 07-15-2014 08:20 AM               

The plan to capture Salyut-7 with the Shuttle remained top secret, but once it came to light during the Shuttle mission, the US public would have been sufficiently brainwashed by the media to believe the cover story: NASA had simply been obliged to pluck the station from orbit to prevent it from hurting anyone on the ground.

...does this all sound too crazy to be true? Not to the makers of a Russian television documentary called "The Battle for Salyut: A Space Detective", who present this Hollywood-like scenario as plain fact. Perhaps nothing to pay too much attention to, were it not that the film was produced by the television studio of the Russian space agency (Teleradiostudiya Roskosmosa), more or less the equivalent of NASA TV.