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In the Shadow of the Moon
2007 · Film · documentary · 109 min
Directed by David Sington
Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus interviews with the surviving astronauts, including Jim Lovell, Dave Scott, John Young, Gene Cernan, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell, Charlie Duke and Harrison Schmitt.
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Some movies about the Apollo missions are incredible:
- the recent Apollo 11 movie with restored footage
- in the shadow of the moon documentary (and the related Moon machines series), awesome music as well
- Moonwalk one
He spoke about this in the documentary film, In the Shadow of the Moon [0], "Certainly I didn't feel it as fear, I felt it as awareness, almost a feeling of exultation. I liked it! It was a good feeling." He mentioned the same thing in his book, Carrying the Fire (I saw that NPR is calling it "the best of the astronaut autobiographies", and having read it, I concur.)
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMx2MA5bEtk
If you have any interest in the Apollo missions...
In the Shadow of the Moon [0]
The film follows the manned missions to the Moon made by the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The documentary reviews both the footage and media available to the public at the time of the missions, as well as NASA films and materials which had not been opened in over 30 years.
For All Mankind [1]
A 1989 documentary film drawn from original footage of NASA's Apollo program which successfully landed the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.
Moon Machines [2]
The miniseries features interviews with around 70 of the 400,000 engineers who worked on the Apollo program during the 1960s and early 70s.
These are variously available on DVD and YouTube.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Shadow_of_the_Moon_(film)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Machines
Another good quote by him from "In the Shadow of the Moon" (a quite amazing film/documentary of Apollo featuring interviews with the actual astronauts):
[about driving the Lunar Rover] "What really saves you up there is there's nobody coming down the road from the other way."
I second your recommendation - a great film. The Saturn V launch sequence is always extremely impressive.
I'd also recommend "In the Shadow of the Moon" [1], which focuses on the more recent recollections of the Apollo astronauts, including Gene Cernan.
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925248/
Aww, I remember him from watching the excellent documentary "In the shadow of the moon" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925248/). Highly recommended, seems like astronauts age really well. They all looked like a spry bunch
Yuri Gagarin's place in American history is being solidified.
A lot of people have commented about this remark of yours. I'm old enough (barely) to remember Gagarin's first venture into space (I distinctly remember live TV coverage of the launch of John Glenn's first American orbital space launch) and I have never forgotten about Gagarin, nor about Valentina Tereshkova,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova
whose flight into space, the first by a woman by a large number of years, was just in the news on its fiftieth anniversary. A sufficiently old American grew up in the Space Age, and remembers the names of all the space pioneers.
If younger readers of Hacker News would like to move their minds back in time to learn more about (the American phase of) the early age of manned space flight, I recommend the documentary movie In the Shadow of the Moon,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925248/
which I watched with my children just yesterday evening. There is, alas, little mention of the Soviet space program in the film, because the focus is on manned missions to the moon, but the interviews with surviving astronauts are fascinating, and the film-maker does a good job of setting the historical context.