Apollo 18

Officially, NASA has declared the last moon landing to be Apollo 17. The film focuses on the conspiracy that Apollo 18 did in fact launch, having a top secret mission. According to the film the mission of Apollo 18 was to plant detectors across the moon in order to inform the U.S. of any possible ICBM attacks by the Soviet Union. While their, the two astronauts collect moon rock samples and discover an abandoned USSR space ship not far from their own land site. It is eventually revealed that the moon rocks are actually aliens. One alien manages to get inside Commander Walkers suit and into his skin, infecting him. I never understood how the alien-rock was able to get inside his space suit without killing him? The two try to radio Houston of these events but interference of an unknown source makes it impossible. Their space ship, Liberty, also faces extensive external evidence. Soon enough Walker realizes he is infected beyond cure and believes Captain Anderson must leave without him. Anderson tries to convince him otherwise but Walker is dragged away into a crater by the aliens. I didn’t understand what dragged him away either, seeing as how the aliens were portrayed as small rock like things. As Anderson tries to save him he is overwhelmed by the aliens and realizes his only hope for escape is the Soviet Union space craft. He is able to get it started but before he launches he is contacted by the deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and is informed that his possible contamination is too much of a risk in order to return him to earth. The third astronaut on the mission was Lieutenant colonel John Grey who manages to contact Anderson and offers him a rescue. However he is also contacted by the Department of Defense warning him to abort the mission or they will break communication, meaning they would not be able to return to earth. Before he can make a decision the USSR spaceship which Anderson is in reveals to have moon rock-aliens and he is attacked. Anderson, unable to control the spaceship, crashes into Grey.
The film incorporates actual film from the previous Apollo missions, highlighting that there is rock movement in the background. The three astronauts in the Apollo 18 movie were documented to have died under mysterious circumstances, their bodies were never recovered. Another factor that coincides with the film, are the 230 returned moon rocks from previous missions in which 160 of them are lost, unaccounted for, or destroyed.
Overall the film was less than exciting, taking far too long to catch interest. But it did raise the interesting question of why we had not returned to the moon.