Tag: moon landing
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Neil Armstrong Takes Back the Moon
Days before liftoff Neil Armstrong saw Easy Rider in the cool solitude of a dark space 25 miles from the launchpad and Born to Be Wild blasted in his ears as the Saturn V lifted him with the drive of over 400 sky blue corvettes towards a lunar orbit almost four days later. Space was…
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“Apollo 11”: Capturing the Glory of Man, Space and Moon
There is something majestic about great moments in history caught gloriously in action. The Apollo 11 moon landing was one of those caught moments in time. Appropriately, a documentary about Apollo 11 wouldn’t need sonorous commentary or analysis, just the somber prosody of Walter Cronkite, the voices of Mission Control, and the astronauts themselves. The…