A variant of this idea has it that NASA and its contractors did not recover quickly enough from the Apollo 1 fire, and so all the early Apollo missions were faked, with Apollos 14 or 15 being the first real mission.
Iný variant je, že NASA a jej zmluvné strany sa rýchlo nezotavili z nešťastia Apollo 1, a tak všetky ostatné misie Apollo boli sfalšované, pričom Apollo 14 alebo 15 bola prvá automatická misia.