A quick-hit recap of NASA's Apollo missions in the late '60s and early '70s, as remembered by eight of the men to actually reach the moon. Neil Armstrong's absence is conspicuous and disappointing, as his words upon first setting foot on the lunar surface have become so synonymous with the triumphs of the program, but his peers offer plenty of insight and more than a few fascinating tidbits about the hours leading up to their days in history.
As always, the astronauts' testimony is honest and revealing - in their twilight years, these guys have nothing to hide - and proves just how risky the prospect of space travel really was in that era. The archival footage of each mission is amazing, beautiful, silencing material, but almost all of that has been seen ad infinitum by this point and the few scraps of unseen film that were dug up for the production aren't anything worth writing home about.
This is a subject I'll never tire of, and hearing the story of its inception told from the men who lived it is a rare opportunity. I just wish it were more in-depth and probing, because in the end it's basically reshuffling a very familiar story in a slightly different way.
I have seen probably every documentary about the space race and the moon landings yet I never grow tired of listening to those stories. The greatest achievment, still unparalleled, that mankind ever reached. It showed what we are capable off and for a brief moment in time there were no nations. I hope to see something like it happening in the future, we could really use it.
Shout by bachyaBlockedParent2017-02-02T22:12:05Z
What an incredibly special film. These men (and the legions of men and women who supported them) are true heroes.