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2 November 2007 (UK)
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Remember when the whole world looked up
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The surviving crew members from NASA's Apollo missions tell their story in their own words. full summary | full synopsis
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The human side of the Moon
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Buzz Aldrin | ... | Himself |
 | Neil Armstrong | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Stephen Armstrong | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Viola Armstrong | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Alan Bean | ... | Himself |
| Eugene Cernan | ... | Himself |
| Michael Collins | ... | Himself |
| Charles Duke | ... | Himself (as Charlie Duke) |
 | John F. Kennedy | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Jim Lovell | ... | Himself (as James Lovell) |
| Edgar D. Mitchell | ... | Himself (as Edgar Mitchell) |
| Garry Moore | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Harrison Schmitt | ... | Himself |
| Dave Scott | ... | Himself (as David Scott) |
| John Young | ... | Himself |
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Rated PG for mild language, brief violent images and incidental smoking.
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109 min
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Of all the astronauts who appeared in the film, only Buzz Aldrin demanded to be paid.
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Factual errors: Gene Cernan talks about the Apollo 1 crew (Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee) being buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Only Grissom and Chaffee are buried there. White is buried at West Point.
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Eugene Cernan:
[referring to Apollo 17's liftoff] I had control of that vehicle right in the palm of my hands. If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself...
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Features "I've Got a Secret" (1952)
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There have been many documentaries about the technical issues of getting to the Moon, but this one focuses more on how the astronauts felt about it all. At turns funny (Buzz Aldrin admits he relieved himself right before stepping on the Moon because it was about the only spare time he was going to have for the next two hours), inspiring (Jim Lovell talking about reading from Genesis while orbiting the Moon), and poignant (several of the astronauts talk about the Apollo 1 fire), it's a riveting piece of film-making.
The footage itself switches between the "talking heads" of the astronauts and imagery depicting what they're talking about, loosely following the chronology of the space age, from Kennedy's declaration of the ambition to go to the Moon to the later Apollo missions with the lunar rover. There aren't any revelations in the mission footage, but then all that's been combed over many times. However, it's well put together and everything is tied in.
I got to see this film at a special showing at the Goddard Space Flight Center. When the film was over, the auditorium full of space geeks gave the director a standing ovation. I think it was well-deserved. While he humbly noted "It's you rocket scientists who really did this - I just put a film together," perhaps - as he also noted - this film will help inspire another generation as we take the next great leap into space, this time to Mars.