After 21 hours on the Moon, Armstrong and Aldrin returned to their lunar module, known as Eagle. They disconnected it from the command module that would remain orbiting above, before undocking Eagle from Eagle itself and dismounting from it. Armstrong made history when he took “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”….
After The First Man made history with its Oscar win and before Captain Marvel returns to cinemas, Apollo 11 is an eye-opening documentary on America’s inaugural moon landing mission, using previously unseen 70mm footage to tell its tale. Incredible footage brings astronauts to life and shows there were many moments that nearly cost their lives…
National Archive employees collaborated closely with filmmakers to digitize their film footage at high resolution for better clarity than would have been possible with original technical restrictions. Miller did not exploit this aspect in his movie. Instead, Miller used this image of astronauts wearing spacesuits as an allusion to their monumental mission and its associated…
In 1961, President Kennedy challenged America to put boots on the moon as part of a geopolitical prestige project meant to outwit Soviet Russia in the Space Race. This program eventually evolved into the Apollo program which eventually succeeded in fulfilling that objective. But the expensive program soon became a political liability as mechanical issues…
Visitors to this Smithsonian exhibit can experience what the astronauts saw aboard Apollo 11. Staff discovered numbers etched onto a smooth wall panel beneath lockers indicating some degree of flexibility had occurred in its layout and preflight plans. Miller uses enhanced archival footage and often splits the screen to display two or more shots simultaneously…
Fifty years on from the Apollo moon landing, computing power continues to leap ahead exponentially. According to Graham Kendall’s estimates, today’s iPhones are approximately 120 million times faster in terms of raw processing power compared to Apollo guidance computers used during that era. The iPhone features a processor comprised of 1.6 billion transistors that is…
Todd Douglas Miller (Dinosaur 13) takes us inside NASA’s groundbreaking mission that first put men on the moon – one we may never have witnessed otherwise! Archival footage and audio recordings take us there with this must-watch documentary. The film’s new DTS-HD MA 5.1 mix is impressively immersive, featuring dialogue, sound effects and James Horner’s…
NASA was determined to duplicate Neil Armstrong’s achievement on Apollo 11, so the crew of Apollo 12 under Commander Pete Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Al Bean would make another giant step for humanity. On November 14th 1969, Apollo 12 took flight from Cape Kennedy on board a Saturn V rocket. Following two orbits, they…
NASA’s Apollo Program represented their attempt to place astronauts on the Moon. This massive undertaking involved numerous people – astronauts, mission controllers, engineers and scientists among them. On their journey to and from the Moon, astronauts used a Command Module. When landing, they took shelter in an inflatable lunar module which could accommodate two astronauts…
