I missed it on it's nanosecond theatrical run, it's supposed to be excellent!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925248/

9PM Eastern.

I saw it in the theater and was blown away by the footage. The interviews are priceless and it makes for an excellent documentary. It's a shame that Neil Armstrong didn't participate.

I have the DVD. It is excellent.

I only hope that a Blu-ray Disc version is forthcoming.

Enjoyed it immensely, I'd put it slightly ahead of the similiar For All Mankind. Nice to see Michael Collins participating, his Carrying the Fire is by far the best of the astronaut-authored books, imho.

An excellent piece of work. As Ron Howard pointed out, we all have one or two stories from our life experiences that we tell really well. They gave the men who flew to the moon the opportunity to record theirs for posterity. And I nearly stood up and cheered Cernan's response to the idiots who don't believe we ever really went. Worth the price of the DVD by itself.

I saw it last night... really cool. I still get chills when I hear those men talk about what they did.

An excellent piece of work. As Ron Howard pointed out, we all have one or two stories from our life experiences that we tell really well. They gave the men who flew to the moon the opportunity to record theirs for posterity. And I nearly stood up and cheered Cernan's response to the idiots who don't believe we ever really went. Worth the price of the DVD by itself.


Don't have it. What was Cernan's response?

Whatever it was, I prefer Buzz Aldrin's response. A sock in the jaw. :)

Don't have it. What was Cernan's response?

I was surprised at the emotion in his response...no anger...almost a sadness, but in essence, he said," I don't care what they believe or don't believe. I know where I was in December 1972 and no matter what they say, no matter what they do, they can never take that away from me."

If you prefer a more reasoned response, Charlie Duke asks, " Okay, say we faked it for national honor to beat the Russians. You could almost understand the doubt, but why fake it 6 times? Do you really think that after all these years, of all the people involved, nobody would've come forward and said, "Yes, we faked the whole thing?"

The intellectual part of me sides with Duke, but my gut prefers Cernan's answer.

There was a special on National Geographic a couple of weeks ago about the Apollo conspiracy theorists. Pretty good show - it debunked just about every claim by the non-believers. The best part of the show was at the end. They interviewed a couple of scientists (at Palomar I believe) that have been doing lunar laser ranging experiments since 1969. They hit the packages that were left on the moon over 200 times a year. One of the scientists said, "They've never come and asked us about man not landing on the moon". Classic!

Watched the DVD tonight. Great documentary. 12 year old watched it with me. Friend of his had mentioned that the moon landings were faked and he asked me about it. My response was that those people lack imagination. And we watched the dvd.

Great stuff. Most impressive is how smart those guys are. So well spoken.

And also the pictures of engineers pouring over blueprints on drafting tables. OK it is a little hard to believe...

All the footage in this film is actual. No simulations.

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/509/mooncredits.jpg

LOL I agree with JP - after how many episodes, how many rude interruptions, Aldrin finally said "enough is enough".

Actually, the moon landings were faked - on Mars. :D

You really have to be skeptical and have an imagination to dream up such a conspiracy theory about the moon landings. Perhaps, you also have to be delusional.

Yes, the plastic model hobby really doesn't exist. The Auroa and Polar Light companies never existed. Really, all they did was print up a bunch of empty boxes...

actually the idea of building a moon ship and landing men on the moon in what, 9 years(?), is more fantastical and requires greater imagination than thinking Hollywood did it (or area 51). Unless you were a kid in the 60's and lived and breathed the stuff. I did.

(but not stopping to consider the logic of multiple landing hoaxes with the world watching (especially the soviets) is a bit narrow minded)

The technology leading up to the moon landings was developed over a period much longer than 9 years... The goal of landing a man on the moon in the 1960's brought alot of technologies together within 9 years.

The physics of kinematics were developed about 300 years before the moon landing. Rockets were flying 25 years earlier. Radio was invented about 60-70 years prior. The Television tube/camera was invented about 35 years prior. The transistor was inventes aabout 20 years earlier. Electronic computers were operating about 30 years prior.

Yes, and metallurgy was around for thousands of years. (Ducking and running now!!)