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At the heart of the Apollo program was the special team in Mission Control who put a man on the moon and helped create the future.At the heart of the Apollo program was the special team in Mission Control who put a man on the moon and helped create the future.At the heart of the Apollo program was the special team in Mission Control who put a man on the moon and helped create the future.
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Stephen Bales
- Self
- (as Steve Bales)
James Burke
- Self
- (archive footage)
Eugene Cernan
- Self
- (as Gene Cernan)
Charles Duke
- Self
- (as Charlie Duke)
Christopher Kraft
- Self
- (as Chris Kraft)
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- TriviaAt about 1:30 we see footage of the crew section of the LEM blasting off from the moon. This was Apollo 17; the last time that man was on the moon, which was on December 14, 1972. This is a remarkable shot, as the camera was being controlled remotely from Houston, and powered by the lunar rover and with the transmission being beamed from the rover's antenna. As it takes approximately one and a half seconds for a radio signal to travel from the earth to the moon and another second and a half for the return signal, the camera operator had to start the camera moving a second and a half before the actual blast off. He then used the joystick to tilt the camera upwards at the same rate as the ascent of the spacecraft, but anticipate its location from moment to moment and do it one and a half seconds early. Thanks to his precise timing, he was able to capture the shot while keeping the spacecraft in the frame the entire time.
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Christopher Kraft: We gotta tell 'em it's got to have a computer. What the hell is a computer? It was almost that much that we didn't know.
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Documentary Offers a Candid Behind the Scenes Look
This documentary, directed by David Fairhead, offers the viewer a most candid behind the scenes look at Houston's Mission Control Center during the early U.S. space program. If focuses primarily on the Apollo Program, of the 1960's and 70's, with plenty of archival footage of the times and interviews with those that manned the control room, as well as the astronauts that flew the early missions.
The film includes the tragedy of Apollo 1 when 3 astronauts died in a capsule fire as they awaited liftoff at Cape Kennedy, the first manned orbit around the moon on Apollo 8, and, of course, the remarkable team effort to return Apollo 13 safely back to earth after a life threatening malfunction (you may have seen the movie).
Naturally, I'm not forgetting Apollo 11, where Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon, setting off shock waves and awe around the world. It was fascinating for me, even though I have seen other movies on this subject over the years, to hear the intricate details of what went into each flight from the engineers, flight controllers, and astronauts that lived through every minute of it.
The film includes the tragedy of Apollo 1 when 3 astronauts died in a capsule fire as they awaited liftoff at Cape Kennedy, the first manned orbit around the moon on Apollo 8, and, of course, the remarkable team effort to return Apollo 13 safely back to earth after a life threatening malfunction (you may have seen the movie).
Naturally, I'm not forgetting Apollo 11, where Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon, setting off shock waves and awe around the world. It was fascinating for me, even though I have seen other movies on this subject over the years, to hear the intricate details of what went into each flight from the engineers, flight controllers, and astronauts that lived through every minute of it.
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- larrys3
- Aug 30, 2017
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- NASA:s okända hjältar
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- Gross US & Canada
- $16,405
- Gross worldwide
- $16,405
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
- 16:9 HD
- 4:3
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By what name was Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo (2017) officially released in Canada in English?
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