Xinhua outdoes itself

For years, skeptics have claimed that the Apollo moon landing was staged. NASA has nothing on the PRC’s government-controlled Xinhua news agency, however. Granted, this isn’t exactly Stalin airbrushing Trotsky out of old photos, but it’s a delightful bit of propaganda, nonetheless.

My favorite part is the fabricated dialogue between the astronauts. Herewith, an excerpt:

KIRK: Approach course, Mister Sulu.
(They arrive at a ship hanging crookedly in space. It looks identical to Enterprise.)
KIRK: It’s the Constellation. Look at that.
SPOCK: She may have been wrecked by whatever destroyed these solar systems.
KIRK: She was attacked. Red alert! Red alert! Man your battle stations!

In retrospect, that might have been a tip-off.