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Apollo 11
A cinematic event fifty years in the making.
Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage. |
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Written by: Official press release. Pictures and text supplied
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Date:
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From director Todd Douglas Miller (Dinosaur 13) comes a cinematic event
fifty years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm
footage,
and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes
us
straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission—the one that first
put men
on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household
names. Immersed in the perspectives of the astronauts, the team in Mission
Control, and the millions of spectators on the ground, we vividly experience
those momentous days and hours in 1969 when humankind took a giant leap into
the
future.
Miller and team were working closely with NASA and the National Archives
(NARA) to locate all existing Apollo 11 footage when NARA staff members made
a
startling discovery that changed the course of the project: an unprocessed
collection of 65mm large format footage, never before seen by the public,
containing stunning shots of the launch, the inside of Mission Control, and
recovery and post-mission activities. The footage was so pristine and the
find so
significant that the project evolved beyond filmmaking into one of film
curation
and historic preservation.
The other unexpected find was a massive cache of audio recordings—more
than 11,000 hours—made by two custom recorders which captured individual
tracks from 60 key mission personnel throughout every moment of the mission.
Apollo 11 film team members created code to restore the audio and make it
searchable, then began the multi-year process of listening to and
documenting the
recordings, an effort that yielded remarkable new insights into key events
of the
mission as well as surprising moments of humor and camaraderie.
The digitization of the 65mm collection—as well as the re-scanning of
16mm and 35mm materials—was undertaken at Final Frame, a post-production
house
in New York City, which helped create a custom scanner, capable of high
dynamic
range scanning at resolutions up to 8K. The resulting transfer—from which
the
film was cut—is the highest resolution, highest quality digital collection
of
Apollo 11 footage in existence.
Constructed entirely from archival materials and eschewing talking heads,
Apollo 11 captures the enormity of the event by giving audiences of all ages
the
direct experience of being there. When John F. Kennedy pledged in 1962 to
put
Americans on the moon by the end of the decade, he described it as a bold
act of
faith and vision. Apollo 11 bears witness to the culmination of that pledge,
when
America and the world came together in an extraordinary act of unity and
resolve,
to achieve one of the greatest and most complex feats in human history.
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Director's Statement
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"The
way we discovered the 65mm, and seeing it for the first time was something that
I will never forget. There was two reels, and we put them on a prototype scanner
that the guys at Final Frame had built, and you would just see these little
bursts of imagery about every three of four seconds" - Todd Douglas Miller,
Director
The mission of Apollo 11 is one of the greatest achievements in human
history – hundreds of thousands of people spread across tens of thousands of
companies all focused on putting the first humans on another world.
At times it felt like our film had just as many moving parts. What started
out as a simple editing exercise - could we tell the entire story of the
mission
using only archival materials – turned into a cooperative effort by an
international team of experts to create the definitive work on Apollo 11 for
the
screen. The remarkable discovery of a cache of untouched large format film
and
audio recordings added another dimension to the project: it was more than
just a
film now, it was an opportunity to curate and preserve this priceless
historical
material.
This film only exists because of the tremendous efforts and sacrifices of
an extremely talented group of individuals. From the archivists and
researchers, to the post production teams and production partners, everyone
labored for years to ensure we got it right.
We are also indebted to the scores of writers, filmmakers, and researchers
that have come before us to build on the canon of project Apollo. And to the
astronauts, their families, NASA employees, contractors, and volunteers,
many of
whom we came to know in the course of making this film, we humbly say thank
you.
You remind us that great things can be accomplished when people unite for a
common goal.
Todd Douglas Miller
January 2019
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A Conversation with Historical Consultant Robert
Pearlman
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What is groundbreaking about this film?
ROBERT PEARLMAN: A lot of works have been made about Apollo 11, the first
mission
to land humans on the moon, but what sets this film apart is the fact that
this is
history being made again — new footage that was previously unknown has been
expertly restored and scanned at the highest resolution possible, presenting
never-before-seen footage from what many consider the crowning achievement
of
humankind to date. We're able for the first time in history to get new
glimpses and
new information about how we landed men on the moon.
What makes the images in Apollo 11 so special?
RP: The original source material was 70MM, which is the widest-format film
you're
going to find. The detail that's brought out is considerable — for example,
there's a scene capturing the astronauts (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and
Michael
Collins) suiting up for the mission. We knew that scene was filmed, but when
it was
shown to the public, it had been cropped to 35MM in order to match the other
film
that was available. Many scenes like this have been expanded to a widescreen
view, and we see them in high-definition for the first time. For the viewing
public, this means a more visceral, you-are-there feeling, including being
in the
room with the astronauts as they're getting ready that July morning. For
historians, it's an opportunity to see the whole layout of what was
happening that
day, featuring details that weren't previously available.
Why have we not been able to see this footage all these years?
RP: The fact that these new reels were discovered by coincidence sitting in
the
National Archives so close to the 50th anniversary of the moon landing makes
for
a wonderful discovery, giving us the ability to celebrate it properly.
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Originally NASA held the footage in a storage facility but
over the
years it was transferred to the National Archives, where it was more or less
forgotten. Some of the footage was prepared for a documentary released in
the
1970s, but once again the footage was cropped. This is the raw footage as it
was
originally taken, and since NASA didn't have the funds or interest to
produce more
material, it sat unused. Fifty years later, the possibility of finding
footage
we've never seen before is becoming more and more rare, if not impossible.
Because
it's such a famous, iconic event in history, one would think that all
footage that
was ever to be seen from it would have already been discovered.
The audio is as powerful in the movie as the images. What has been improved
in
this regard?
RP: The audio footage is something we knew existed — it had not been lost to
the
years like some of the images — but we've only had access to it recently.
When the
astronauts went to the moon, there were several different tracks of audio,
including the space-to ground audio, or the voice of the astronauts being
broadcast to the ground, and the singular voice of the representative from
Mission Control being transmitted back up to the astronauts. There were
other
tracks that were known to exist which had not been released to the public,
including the flight director's loop, featuring all the voices from Mission
Control consoles talking to him. In addition, there was footage of the
astronaut 's
voices from space as well as the back-room audio loops coming from Mission
Support. NASA made hours of this audio available, and what this film team
has
done is sort through that audio, re-mastering it and synching it up with
available film footage. For the first time, you can watch flight controllers
speaking from Mission Control and actually hear what they're saying because
the
audio has been meticulously synched with the corresponding moment in time.
There's spectacular footage of average Americans watching the launch from
parking lots and Florida beaches — who shot this footage?
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RP: A film team from NASA captured the estimated one million people who
showed up
for the launch, the most people ever to show up for an event like this. This
was
the same film team that was documenting the astronauts preparing for the
launch,
for a project named Moonwalk One . This crew filmed nearby beaches, parking
lots
and well as the VIP and press viewing area. While this footage had been
previously
released, it was cropped, sometimes dramatically, so we're seeing a much
wider
view than ever before — we have a fuller record of what was filmed, in the
widest
format and highest definition possible. We can see more details than ever
before.
For example, in a scene at the VIP viewing site, you can spot people like
Johnny
Carson and the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov among the spectators.
Watching
the crowds outside J.C.Penney and along the beaches, you can see how people
dressed at the time, what cars they drove. You can even see the reflection
of the
launch in the sunglasses of spectators as they watch it take off.
The colors are extraordinary in these scenes — it looks like vintage
Kodachrome.
RP: You experience a tremendous mix of feelings watching these scenes, which
are
almost hyper-real. In one sense you know you're watching footage that's 50
years
old — it exudes that sense of age and time — but what's most striking is how
state-of-the-art it looks, like it was shot with the highest-quality camera
you
can find today. We all know how the launch sequence is going to turn out —
we
know going in that they will make it to the moon and back — but you're on
the edge
of your seat all over again because it looks and feels like a live event
unfurling
in the present. It feels like something entirely new, even though this is
some of
the most famous historical footage ever recorded.
The centerpiece of this movie is the moon landing, and the moonwalk — is
there
anything new we're seeing for the first time?
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RP: We're seeing these scenes presented in a new way. The space footage is
not new,
but it was treated like the rest of the film — scanned at the highest
resolution
possible and placed into the context of a movie that draws you forward
through
existing archival footage, not through someone looking back and describing
how
it occurred. A lot of documentaries have depicted the moon landing and the
moonwalk using narration or talking heads — contemporary commentary, which
frames the footage so it feels like you're watching history. Because this
film is
cinema vérité, you're watching archival material telling the story itself in
an
approximation of real time — the sensation is like watching it unfold for
the
first time.
As a NASA historian, what in your opinion are the most exciting features
of this movie?
RP: Having worked with a lot of filmmakers over the years on various
projects, I've
had to take people to task before on claims of never-before-seen footage —
maybe
the general public hasn't seen the footage, but plenty of others have. For
the first
time, this is bona fide footage that we have not seen before, so the
discovery
alone was exciting. Add to that the latest in film technology, the ability
to
present this footage in high resolution, and large format, which looks
amazing on
the big screen and almost beyond belief on in a large-format presentation.
Simply
being able to bring the mission back to life and see it on a scale this huge
is
probably the most exciting factor for me.
What are some of the scenes you are seeing for the first time?
RP: Scanning the rows inside the launch control center, being inside the
suit-up
room with the astronauts, getting a wider and more audible perspective of
Mission Control during the launch, and being on board the U.S.S.
Hornet
(the recovery ship) as the astronauts returned from the mission — you can
even
spot Nixon in the crowd here. We have photographic documentation from these
aspects of the mission, and other 16MM film taken from different vantage
points,
but the fact that we're seeing this from a new perspective, with new details
to
catch in a much wider frame, with clearer resolution — these are the moments
you
long for in a movie like this. This mission was well documented but now you
have
the opportunity to pick out details that tell a whole new story.
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Why was the Apollo 11 launch so important in a historical context?
RP: The race to the moon unfolded in what was a perfect storm of events in
the late
1960s — if all those events did not occur, we probably would never have
reached
the moon. We didn't go because we were scientifically interested in the moon
— we
went because we were in a cold war with the Soviet Union and it was a
testament of
our technological prowess that we could send someone to the moon; it might
have
unfolded differently if this happened during peacetime. This was the
crowning
achievement of a race between two world powers fighting each other in a way
that
no one was actually hurt. From a cultural standpoint, the moon has been a
symbol
of many different things to people throughout humanity, it has always been
that
unreachable world and we're fueled by the notion that if we can send a man
to the
moon, we can do anything. In the time frame that it occurred, even with the
backdrop of the Cold War, we also might not even have gotten there were not
for
the very unfortunate assassination of John F. Kennedy, who was not a huge
fan of
going to the moon. He saw it as a political need in order to beat the
Russians.
Almost from the point he announced the space race, he was working behind the
scenes to try and find a way out of it, even asking the Soviets to partner
with us.
When he was assassinated it became the vision and goal of a
fallen
hero, and it was untouchable from a political standpoint because it would
have
been seen as stomping on the legacy of a slain president. This was the
culmination
of a goal set out by someone that Americans, and the world, looked up to. If
anything is going to be remembered about the 20th Century, it's going to be
the
fact that we took our first steps on another celestial body — because this
is the
future of humanity, the promise of going further. Apollo 11 was only the
first
step.
Fifty years on, where do we stand in terms of the space program?
RP: We've changed focus. Our original visions of how to go into space were
not to
go directly to the moon, it had to do with what came later, which was to
establish
a space shuttle and space station, then establish ourselves in orbit and go
out
even further. But a confluence of events changed our priorities. We haven't
been
back to the moon since 1972, after the sixth moon landing, but we're on the
verge
of returning — not as singular nations but in privatized missions. We've
come to
the point where there are companies that are building the rockets that will
take
private citizens to the moon. Countries like China are sending rovers to the
far
side of the moon, were no one has ventured before — as recently as January
2019.
Later this year, the first Israeli moon lander will be launched from Kennedy
Space Center here in the U.S. So we're having a lunar renaissance in the way
that
we're having more and more countries and organizations sending missions to
the
moon. Meanwhile, NASA is looking in coming years to send astronauts back to
the
lunar orbit in cooperation with its European, Canadian, Russian and Japanese
partners with the intention of pushing on to Mars. After 50 years, we're at
a new
crossroads where we're ready to travel beyond flags and footprints toward
more
permanent lunar settlement. Soon we'll have a lasting presence there,
pushing out
into the solar system with the goal of always having humans exploring space.
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Filmmaker Bios
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TODD DOUGLAS MILLER – DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, EDITOR
Todd Miller is best known for his Emmy award winning film, Dinosaur 13,
which premiered at Sundance in 2014. His other films include Gahanna Bill,
Scaring the Fish, and The Last Steps. He is the founder and co-owner of
Statement
Pictures, based in Brooklyn, NY, which produces feature films and
documentaries
as well as large format/IMAX films for science centers and museums. He was
born in
Columbus, OH, and lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and three children.
THOMAS PETERSEN - PRODUCER
Thomas Petersen is a producer, DP, and co-owner of Statement Pictures. He
was born and raised in New Orleans and studied journalism before moving to
NYC in
2003. Previous documentaries include The Last Steps, The Acquired Savant
(his
directorial debut) , and the Emmy award winning Dinosaur 13. He lives in
Brooklyn,
NY.
EVAM KRAUSS - PRODUCER
Evan Krauss, a founding partner of NY-based law firm Gray Krauss Sandler
Des Rochers LLP, concentrates his practice on music, film, television and
new
media. Evan works with songwriters, composers, recording artists, music and
film
producers, writers, directors, and both studio and independent content
producers. As a natural extension of his law practice, Evan has also worked
as a
producer on various film projects, with a concentration in non-fiction.
Evan’s
various executive producer and producer credits include the documentaries
“Hot
Girls Wanted” (Netflix Original) , “The Lost Arcade,” Showtime acquired
films
“Porndemic” and “Godfathers of Hardcore” and the cult classic “Cropsey.”
MATT MORTON - COMPOSER
Matt Morton is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and engineer/producer.
He was a founding member of the band The Shantee, and has opened for bands
including George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic, The National, and the
Neville Brothers. His film credits include Scaring the Fish, Beauty of the
Fight,
The Last Steps, and the Emmy-award-winning Dinosaur 13. He was born in
Columbus, OH where he lives with his wife Jen and a studio full of
instruments,
including the 1968 Moog Synthesizer IIIc that he used for the Apollo 11
score.
ROBERT PEARLMAN – HISTORICAL CONSULTANT
Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor
of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space
history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration
intersects
with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and
coauthor
of "Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space”
published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online
content
for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped
established the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves
on
the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory
committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind.
In
2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville,
Alabama.
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STEPHEN SLATER – ARCHIVAL PRODUCER
Stephen Slater has had an interest in space travel and documentary
filmmaking since an early age growing up in Derbyshire, England. Beginning
his
television career in sports production, the two fields combined in 2011 when
he
produced and directed the BBC FOUR documentary "Destination Titan", about
the
Huygens probe landing on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Since then, his love
of
historic footage has seen him specializing as an Archive Producer for a
series of
high profile feature documentaries, including "The Last Man On The Moon",
"George
Best: All By Himself", and the BAFTA Award winning "Hillsborough". He is a
specialist in the NASA film archive, and in 2011, he was nominated for the
Arthur
C Clarke Award for Achievement in Space Media.
BEN FEIST – AUDIO RESTORATION / TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Ben Feist is a software engineer at NASA who splits his time between
Johnson Space Center in Houston, and Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt,
MD. Ben has spent his career creating technology experiences since the birth
of
the Internet, and is the Apollo program historian behind the interactive
website
Apollo17.org, a web experience that recreates the last mission to the Moon
in real
time. Ben’s work at NASA focuses on future missions, solving the many data
management and visualization challenges that will face us when humanity once
again ventures on to other planets.
AMY ENTELIS - EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Amy Entelis is executive vice president for talent and content development
for CNN Worldwide. She is based in New York. Soon after her arrival in 2012,
Entelis began shaping a renaissance at CNN, initiating the hires of more
than 30
television journalists, scores of contributors and commentators, and
launching four premium content brands for the network’s global
platforms.
Under her leadership, CNN launched CNN Films, which produces and acquires
documentary films for festival, theatrical, and broadcast distribution; CNN
Original Series and HLN Original Series, which develop non-fiction
programming;
and CNN Films Presents, which acquires encore runs of notable documentary
features for broadcast on CNN. Entelis began her illustrious career in
television
journalism at ABC News, initially as a producer on the weekly news magazine
20/20, and later a producer for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
Following ABC News, and before she joined CNN, Entelis served as executive
vice
president for talent strategy at Sucherman Consulting Group. A graduate of
Vassar College, Entelis received a Master of Science degree in journalism
from
Columbia University and serves as a member of the Board of Visitors of the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
COURTNEY SEXTON – EXECUTIVE PRODUER
Courtney Sexton, who joined CNN in 2013, works day-to-day with filmmakers
to supervise the production of documentary films for theatrical exhibition
and
distribution across CNN’s platforms. Since Sexton joined CNN Films, the team
has
acquired, co-produced, or commissioned more than 40 original feature and
short
films including HALSTON and APOLLO 11. The multiyear collaboration with
director Todd Douglas Miller for the production of APOLLO 11 follows
Sexton’s and
Miller’s successful collaborations for the News & Documentary Emmy®-winning
Dinosaur 13, and THE LAST STEPS, a documentary short film about the final
NASA
lunar mission, Apollo 17, that was distributed by Great Big Story.
In 2018, Sexton served as executive producer for RBG, directed by Betsy
West and Julie Cohen, and THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS, directed by Tim Wardle.
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ALEX HANNIBAL – COORDINATING PRODUCER
Alex Hannibal is associate director of content development for CNN Films.
She is based in Los Angeles.
Hannibal joined CNN in 2016 and is responsible for supporting the
development and acquisitions of CNN Films titles, taking the lead on vetting
incoming submissions, and identifying the next generation of documentary
directors for CNN Films.
As coordinating producer for APOLLO 11. Hannibal collaborated with
director Todd Douglas Miller for more than two years on the development of
the
feature. In addition to APOLLO 11, Hannibal worked with Miller on the
documentary short film THE LAST STEPS, about the final NASA lunar mission,
which
was distributed by Great Big Story.
JOSH BRAUN – EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Josh Braun is the co-president of Submarine Entertainment, a hybrid sales,
production and distribution company. Submarine's recent series titles
include
Wild Wild Country, Evil Genius and The Keepers. Recent sales titles include
Three
Identical Strangers, Shirkers, The Oslo Diaries, Crime and Punishment, White
Tide, Pick of the Litter, Kusama: Infinity and Apollo 11. Submarine has been
responsible for the sale of five out of the last eight academy award winning
documentaries; Citizenfour, 20 Feet From Stardom, Man on Wire, The Cove and
Searching for Sugar Man.
TOM QUINN – EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Tom Quinn is the CEO and Founder of NEON; the auteur focused studio
responsible for I, TONYA, THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS, INGRID GOES WEST,
COLOSSAL
and upcoming features: AMAZING GRACE, THE BEACH BUM, THE BIGGEST LITTLE
FARM,
APOLLO 11, and WILD ROSE. As a distributor, Quinn is credited with having
created new distribution paradigms for such groundbreaking films as
SNOWPIERCER, IT FOLLOWS and BACHELORETTE, while simultaneously championing
traditional distribution models for back-to-back Oscar winners 20 FEET FROM
STARDOM and CITIZENFOUR. Having acquired, produced and distributed over 200
films spanning a 20 year career, Quinn is responsible for launching 2
distribution labels: the boutique label RADiUS and the groundbreaking genre
label Magnet for Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner. He also played a key role in
pioneering the use of VOD platforms as the Senior Vice President at Magnolia
Pictures, and served as the VP of Acquisitions at Samuel Goldwyn where he
was
responsible for SUPER SIZE ME. Quinn is the first distributor to win the
Visionary Award alongside Eli Roth and Elijah Wood from the Stanley Film
Festival, and the Leading Light Award from the DOC-NYC Film Festival.
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Astronaut and Crew Bios
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BUZZ ALDRIN
Buzz Aldrin (formerly Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.) , one of the first men to land
on
the moon, was born in Montclair, New Jersey, on Jan. 20, 1930. Aldrin
attended the
U.S. Military Academy at West Point and entered the United States Air Force.
He
flew 66 combat missions in in Korea and, after a tour of duty in Germany,
went on
to earn his Doctorate of Science in astronautics at the Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology (MIT), writing his thesis on orbital rendezvous.
Aldrin became an astronaut with NASA's third group in October 1963. On Nov.
11, 1966, he orbited Earth with James Lovell aboard the Gemini 12 spacecraft
and
performed the first successful extravehicular activity (EVA, or spacewalk)
during
the mission that concluded the Gemini program.
As Apollo 11 lunar module pilot, Aldrin joined Neil Armstrong in achieving
humanity’s first landing on the moon and exploration of the lunar surface on
July
20, 1969.
In 1971, Aldrin resigned from NASA and a year later, retired from the U.S.
Air Force with the rank of colonel. A self-described "Global Statesman for
Space,”
Aldrin has devoted his activities in the years since to advocating for human
space exploration. He has authored 10 books (including four about his
experiences
on the moon) and established the ShareSpace Foundation and Aldrin Space
Institute at the Florida Institute of Technology.
Aldrin also devised the “Aldrin Mars Cycler,” a spacecraft system with
perpetual cycling orbits between Earth and Mars. He has received three U.S.
patents for his schematics of a modular space station, reusable rockets and
multicrew
modules for spaceflight. Aldrin currently serves on the Users Advisory Group
for the National Space Council.
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NEIL ARMSTRONG
Neil Alden Armstrong, the first human to walk on the moon, was born in
Wapakoneta, Ohio, on Aug. 5, 1930. After serving as a naval aviator from
1949 to
1952, Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
(NACA) in
1955. His first assignment was with the Lewis Research Center (now NASA
Glenn) in
Cleveland, Ohio. Over the next 17 years, he was an engineer, test pilot,
astronaut
and administrator for NACA and its successor agency, the National
Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA).
As a research pilot at NASA's Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force
Base in California, Armstrong was a project pilot on many pioneering high
speed
aircraft, including the X-15 rocket plane. He flew over 200 different models
of
aircraft, including jets, rockets, helicopters and gliders.
Armstrong was selected with NASA’s second group fo astronauts in 1962. His
first assignment was as command pilot for Gemini 8. Launched on March 16,
1966,
Armstrong and David Scott performed the first successful docking of two
vehicles
in space.
As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing
mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first person to land
a
craft on the moon and first to step on its surface.
Armstrong subsequently held the position of Deputy Associate
Administrator for Aeronautics at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. In
this
position, he was responsible for the coordination and management of overall
NASA
research and technology work related to aeronautics. He left NASA in 1971 to
become a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
From
1982 to 1992, Armstrong was the chairman of Computing Technologies for
Aviation,
Inc. in Charlottesville, Va.
He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in aeronautical engineering from
Purdue University and a Master of Science in aerospace engineering from the
University of Southern California. He was bestowed honorary doctorates from
a
number of universities.
Armstrong died on Aug. 25, 2012, following complications
resulting
from cardiovascular procedures. He was 82.
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MICHAEL COLLINS
Michael Collins, who circled the moon during the first crewed lunar
landing, was born on Oct. 31, 1930 in Rome, Italy. Collins attended the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he received his Bachelor of
Science degree. Prior to joining NASA, Collins served as a fighter pilot and
an
experimental test pilot at the U.S. Air Force Flight Center at Edwards Air
Force
Base in California. From 1959 to 1963, he logged more than 4,200 hours of
flying
time.
Collins was named an astronaut with NASA’s third selection group in
October 1963. He first served as a pilot on the Gemini 10 mission, which
launched
on July 18, 1966, setting a new world altitude record with crewmate John
Young
and becoming the United States' third spacewalker, completing two
extravehicular
activities (EVAs).
As Apollo 11 command module pilot, Collins remained in lunar orbit aboard
the spacecraft “Columbia," while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the
first
people to walk on the moon in July 1969.
In January 1970, Collins left NASA to become the Assistant Secretary of
State for Public Affairs. A year later, he joined the Smithsonian
Institution as
the first director of the National Air and Space Museum. While in that
position,
he was responsible for the construction of the new museum building, which
opened
to the public in July 1976. In April 1978, Collins became Under Secretary of
the
Smithsonian Institution.
In 1980, he became the vice president of the LTV Aerospace and Defense
Company, resigning in 1985 to start his own firm.
Collins wrote about his experiences in the space program in several books,
including “Carrying the Fire,” widely-considered the best written astronaut
memoir.
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28-year-old
JoAnn Morgan in 70mm. Morgan, who worked as an instrumentation controller for the
mission, was the only woman allowed inside the firing room where NASA
employees were locked during Apollo 11's historic lift off on July 16, 1969.
From the CNN web site
JoAnn H. Morgan (born Dec. 4, 1940) was the first female engineer at Kennedy
Space Center and the only woman to be working at a console in the firing
room for
the launch of the Apollo 11 mission on July 16, 1969. She went on to be the
first
woman senior executive at Kennedy, later serving as the acting deputy
director of
the center.
EUGENE F. “GENE” KRANZ
Eugene F. “Gene” Kranz (born Aug. 17, 1933) served as a flight director in
Mission Control during the Apollo 11 first landing on the moon. NASA’s
second
flight director, Kranz is best perhaps known for leading Mission Control in
the
safe return of the Apollo 13 crew after a mid-flight explosion crippled
their
spacecraft on the way to the moon.
CHARLIE M. DUKE JR.
Charles M. Duke, Jr. (born Oct. 3, 1935) served as the capsule communicator
(“CapCom”) in Mission Control during the Apollo 11 first landing on the
moon. A
member of NASA’s fifth group of astronauts, Duke went on to become the tenth
and
youngest person (to date) to walk on the moon as lunar module pilot of
Apollo 16 in
April 1972.
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APOLLO 11 Credits
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DIRECTOR
Todd Douglas Miller
PRODUCERS
Todd Douglas Miller,
Thomas Petersen,
Evan Krauss
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Amy Entelis,
Courtney Sexton,
COORDINATING PRODUCER,
Alex Hannibal
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Josh Braun,
Tom Quinn
EDITOR
Todd Douglas Miller
MUSIC
Matt Morton
SOUND DESIGN/ RE-RECORDING MIX
Eric Milano
IMAX/LARGE FORMAT MIX
Brian Eimer
ARCHIVE PRODUCER
Stephen Slater
HISTORICAL CONSULTANT
Robert Pearlman
AUDIO RESORATION/ TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Ben Feist
FILM RESTORATION AND POST SERVICES
Final Frame Post,
Will Cox,
Sandy Patch
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