New Apollo documentary

[Beans]

I got to see a sneak preview of "In the Shadow of the Moon" last night. It's a documentary about the Apollo missions that is based on the astronauts' experience only. It also has a lot of newly released (i.e. "never seen before") and digitized footage from the NASA archives. The filmmakers, who were present to speak on a panel after the preview, said the 16mm film negatives used back in the late 60s had resolution on par w/ modern HD tech. The imagery is pretty sweet, and it's pretty cool to hear the astronauts walk through the different things they did.

If it's coming to your town, I recommend you see it: http://www.intheshadowofthemoon.com/

The filmmakers also said that they're making another doc from the POV of the engineers, to come out next year.

 

[millerjd]

I own the HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon" and what I love most about it is it goes through every stage it took to get to the moon from JFK's initial announcement.

The little stories are the best, like the battle of sending Man vs. Machine to the moon, engineers proving it would save weight by having them stand during landing, young engineer's silly idea of having a ship dock over the moon after liftoff.


Although, this might be media propaganda to push the return to the Moon and eventual Mars flight popularity, but I am on board for more documentaries on how we chucked a tin can filled with people and left them with a crappy (but most complex at the time) computer to the moon.