Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo (2017)

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.

Director:

David Fairhead

Stars:

John Aaron, Stephen Bales, Jerry Bostick

Cast

Credited cast:
John Aaron	...	(Himself)
Stephen Bales	...	(Himself) (as Steve Bales)
Jerry Bostick	...	(Himself)
James Burke	...	Himself (archive footage)
Bob Carlton	...	(Himself)
Eugene Cernan	...	(Himself) (as Gene Cernan)
Charles Duke	...	(Himself) (as Charlie Duke)
Ed Fendell	...	(Himself)
Gerry Griffin	...	Himself
Christopher Kraft	...	Himself (as Chris Kraft)
Gene Kranz	...	Himself
Sy Liebergot	...	(Himself)
Jim Lovell	...	(Himself)
Glynn Lunney	...	Himself

Storyline

At the heart of the Apollo program was the special band of brothers in Mission Control. The feature documentary film Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo tells their stories, describing the rural homesteads and smokestack towns they came from, and the remarkable team they became. The film consists of interviews with those who worked in Mission Control and astronauts, enhanced by extraordinary archive, stunning VFX and an original orchestral score. The film covers the first journeys to the moon by Apollo 8 and Apollo 11, and the huge effort required to save the crew of Apollo 13.

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Plot Keywords:

apollo spacecraft | national air and space administration | spaceflight | mission control | 

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Taglines:

No giant leap is made alone.

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Genres:

Documentary | History

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 March 2017 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mission Control: gli eroi sconosciuti dell'Apollo

Company Credits

Production Co:

Haviland Digital

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

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.

User Reviews

A really good documentary

This is an actual good documentary which in my opinion is underated. Interviews with numerous engineers that worked on the apollo program as wel as archival footage mixed with VFX really give a good representation of what the missions were like and how special of an achievement the apollo missions were.