Chris Knight: You may get a catch in your throat watching the mission, a historical event almost 50 years old
My favourite image from this big-screen moon-landing documentary was one I, an avowed space enthusiast, had never seen. It’s footage from the crowd on the Florida coast, gathered on July 16, 1969, to watch the launch of Apollo 11. A woman gazes up, and in her glasses is reflected a bright new transitory star, rising rising rising. And then gone.
But you haven’t seen it like this. Director Todd Douglas Miller chanced upon a cache of large-format footage, never before seen, and a separate collection of 11,000 hours of audio recordings capturing the voices of individual mission control personnel. So there are sights and sounds guaranteed to be new.
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