The first trailer for the highly-anticipated thriller Apollo 18 has just been released. Click on the video below to watch the first official footage from Timur Bekmambetov'slong-forgotten trip to the moon, which hits theaters nationwide on April 22.

Officially, Apollo 17, launched December 17th, 1972, was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.