Go to Netflix and find Mission Control It is a fantastic documentary with those guys and about Apollo 11 and 13. It'll give you goosebumps when Krantz cuts out the outside world right before the Apollo 11 landing and says we came in as a team and we are leaving as a team. Those guys sacrificed their lives for that job and you'll be shocked at their pay for it.

They also talk about the 1201 alarms, how they figured them out beforehand and what happened in the room when it went off.

Now then watch on Amazon Prime in the Shadow of the Moon. It's interviews from 2007 with the Apollo guys and it's made by Ron Howard.

Dr Renedevouz explains why that alarm went off. Buzz. What a bad ass.

And if you're into books, or me audio books for my driving, get Audible and Michael Collins book. Its 22 hours of listening but it is insightful. My favorite was within days of riding Apollo 11 to the moon he was flying back from up north in the T38 at night was looking down at his hometown of DC and finding points of interest and then realized after a while it wasn't DC. And I'm going to the moon next week??? He was upset but they just ran them hard. If they needed 12 months of really hard work to make it happen they were given 8.

 

Also great documentary was about Gene Cernan and it's called the Last Man on the Moon. Also on Netflix. It's great, doesn't hide the warts.

 

I watched that on the airplane a few years ago. Very moving.

Also try “Moonshot” from the 90’s. About the whole shibang from Mercury through Apollo. A lot of the guys were still around for that one.

 

This movie in IMAX is amazing. I don’t know who couldn’t see this and not get the chills during launch. The footage is breathtaking. What a great time in our history.

 

The engineers during the Gemini/Apollo era were also largely in their 20's. They tackled rendezvous in Earth orbit, lunar orbit, trans-lunar injection calculations, precision landing and a whole host of other complex problems that had never been done before. And they did it all on slide rules.

 

Thanks for posting those, FTB! It’s been a long time since I heard the phrase “ullage burn”.

 

I liked the movie, but personally I found the lack of information a poor choice.

There is just too much to say, imo.

Also, I remember the emotion, omg, what emotion. (Not saying it would be easy to replicate, but.....its like when the 1202 went off on short final, the impact was lost in the wild cacophony.) Imagine the fear and trembling that rattled the hearts of all but one of the controllers, the only kid in the place who knew enough to say: its OK.

Didnt feel much emotion in the movie other than blast off.

That grainy, white-suited, clumsy spaceman, inching down the pod, poised on the lip, hanging like no other moment in human history, alone and vibrant, and we got to see the whole damn thing.

That was something.

 

So I saw it with one of my kids.

It's takes a couple of moments to go, oh wait, this isn't Hollywood. Thats history. That's the crowd that was there, that's their cars, that's what they wore.

Launch was fantastic. I just wish they'd cranked the volume up in my theater and blasted your ear drums. Just for the heck of it.

To me I had listened to Collins book and so my point of view was, oh theirs that, oh that's what he was talking about, there he is being a smart ass. I had pictured it all while listening and putting out a dump truck of mulch. Now I could see it. I remembered what not only what he said but he was thinking, including his humor and sarcasm that came over the radio and they played. I remembered how rendevouz was incredibly hard (as he experienced with gemini) and they nailed it. And life in that trailer. And sure enough when they put them in the c141. He talked about all of that. All the way down to the gift for Gunter at the launch pad, I saw him holding the brown bag with a minnow stuck to a plaque that he was hoping wouldn't spill out in front of the world. And when they let Eagle go, how he said he watched Buzz and Neil stare and say goodbye to the machine they had spent so much time in on Earth and then on the moon. So I was a bit too informed.

But I like it just the way it was. It was perfect.

The one thing that got me was that long range camera that caught the 3rd stage firing off and watching the velocity get to 26,000 mph or whatever it went to and miles from earth tick a mile or more per second. I loved those clocks.

When they slowed to land and it got to 5000 mph and you're like, whoa, that's slow. Then I got in my truck. 50mph. felt very lame.

Fwiw. No real previews. Be there on time. Caught a bunch in our theaters off guard.

 

What's the name of the song that they played on the floating cassette player scene (and the film itself also incorporated the studio version into it at that point in the footage)?

 

That song is Mother Country" by John Stewart. Some other facts of the movie on this link. Incredible movie!.

Eleven hidden space history details in new documentary 'Apollo 11' | collectSPACE

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