WASHINGTON — In the iconic 1995 movie “Apollo 13,” Flight Director Gene Kranz, played by Ed Harris, utters the infamous line: “We’ve never lost an American in space, we’re sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch.”

He must have meant “life,” not “dignity.”

It must be tough for the highly polished astronaut corps to recognize this as a part of their record, but there it is, for all the world to see: footage from the Apollo missions of moon-walkers flailing about.

Surely an organization trying to create one of history’s greatest hoaxes wouldn’t have actually subjected their colleagues to this.

To be fair, it must be incredibly difficult to walk with not only one-sixth of the Earth’s gravity, but the restriction of a suit designed to protect the fragile human body from the horrors of zero atmosphere.

Apollo 11 crewman Michael Collins describes the conditions of the moon’s surface, according to a Telegraph report:

“When the Sun is shining on the surface at a very shallow angle, the craters cast long shadows and the Moon’s surface seems very inhospitable. Forbidding, almost. I did not sense any great invitation on the part of the Moon for us to come into its domain. I sensed more that it was almost a hostile place, a scary place.”

Check out the footage:

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