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John Capodice (December 25, 1941 – December 30, 2024) was an American character actor. Capodice began his film and television career in the late 1970s. His first role was in the ABC-TV soap opera Ryan's Hope, where he appeared in six episodes as Lloyd Lord. He had guest roles on numerous other television series, including Spenser: For Hire, Kate & Allie, Seinfeld, Murder She Wrote, Murphy Brown, Knots Landing, Hunter, and Law & Order. He appeared on the series Moonlighting in 1989 and performed as a guest star in an episode of NBC-TV's Will & Grace (episode 1.21), in the role of the repairman who suffers a heart attack. His later television appearances were on The West Wing, Six Feet Under and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In a 1980s television ad for Polly-O String Cheese, Capodice portrayed Fred, a dumbfounded pizzeria owner, who is asked by three teens to make a pizza with extra cheese, but to hold the tomato sauce, and the crust. Essentially a pizza, with "nuttin." He also appeared as a trucker who gives medical advice in a popular ad for Dimetapp Cold Medicine. Capodice also worked in the theatre, appearing mainly in Off-Broadway productions. He appeared as a prison guard in the play Getting Out at the Marymount Manhattan Theatre in October/November 1978 and at the Lucille Lortel Theatre from May 1979 to December 1980. The play won two Outer Critics Circle Awards in 1979. Capodice appeared in the Broadway production of Requiem For a Heavyweight, opposite John Lithgow, George Segal, and John C. McGinley. Capodice appeared as Doyle in the 1982 film Q and in the 1989 film Family Business as Tommy. Other film appearances are in the 1991 Oliver Stone film The Doors and the 1989 comedy See No Evil, Hear No Evil, where he appears as a bookmaker. He had roles in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult (1994), Speed (1994), Independence Day (1996), and Enemy of the State (1998). He provided the voice of Sidney Pen in the 2010 video game Mafia II.

The country that has successfully landed humans on the moon is USA. Now, former astronaut, current NASA Engineer Harry Wallace and US Space force General Dwight Lindbergh are sent to Czechia to help this european country and their space program to send first successful european team of astronauts on the moon. Harry and Dwight meets Administrator Pavel Novotný, Deputy Administrator Sam Procházka, Associate Administrator Daniel Gutt, Deputy Associate Administrator Josef Smetana, Biological and Physical Sciences Division Director Anna Nová, Planetary Science Division Acting Director Tim Horváth, Astrophysics Division Director Robert Šváb, Earth Science Division Director Karel Klaus and Marketing Director Helena Houbová. Administrator Pavel Novotný Introduce them to the team of Czech astronauts chosen for this mission, Jakub Palacký, Tomáš Korek, Vojtěch Lev. Because CSA is also newly partly owned by the Czech government, Ministry of Transport sends new people into CSA leadership to represent the republic's interests. One of new people is Commander of Space Training and Readiness Josef Kralík and Commander of Space Operations Petr Kubiš. Head of these and equivalent of Administrator Novotný is General Sebastian Škoda. They also add new Sciences Division Director Alois Čermák. All these people need to find a way how to cooperate. This operation is not accepted by Russia which wants primacy in Europe and space race starts once again. Side story is love story of Palacký and Naty.
