Secret Manned NASA Mission to Mars 1973

In 1970 there was an alleged secret joint US-Russian mission called “Project Redsun” that was said to have taken Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, who would be accompanied by a Russian cosmonaut, on a manned mission to Mars, which was said to have launched from an “isolated location” in Brazil. While the first of the “Redsun“ missions were information gathering missions, by 1973 the aim was to land a man on Mars itself. There is little known about the alleged missions, but apparent leaked footage has surfaced of the ISV Columbus consisting of Elliott See (commander), William B. Rutledge (pilot) and Vladimir Ilyushin that was said to have launched in August 1973. The 3-minute clip below was supposedly leaked from a collection of 16mm archival footage used in the training of NASA astronauts and Air Force pilots.