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 Post subject: PBS:Chasing The Moon
PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 11:11 pm 
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Just finished 1/3...outstanding...I love the audacity to not even show the interview's video...only their audio w/font...everything you see is straight footage, most of it I've never seen before, and i've been around awhile...compelling storytelling as well as nimble direction by Robert Stone...1st episode kept getting better and better, hope that pattern continues.


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 Post subject: Re: PBS:Chasing The Moon
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also some rare in flight audio from emergency moments

I didn't know an astronaut wife committed suicide as a result of the tragedy in the program.

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I love the audacity to not even show the interview's video...only their audio w/font...everything you see is straight footage.


That was an interesting choice. I also liked it.

Only through the 1st but have enjoyed it. I thought I’d seen everything available but apparently not.

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 Post subject: Re: PBS:Chasing The Moon
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I'm quite certain the Soviets killed a number of Cosmonauts attempting to reach space/Moon that we will never know about.

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Moon landing is y00ge for British lads of Robert Stone's demographic. Eddie Izzard often ends his stand-up with as vigorous a defense of the moon-landing as a six foot tranny in a pant-suit can deliver. One-man Clash himself penned an emotional tribute to the experience of watching the moon landing as a 12 year old in England:

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"As a 10-year-old kid in England in July 1969, my mother woke me up in the middle of the night to watch two Americans set foot upon another world, the moon quite literally staring at us through the window above our television set," filmmaker Robert Stone, who has garnered Oscar and Emmy Award nominations for past projects, said in a PBS statement.

"I'd recently seen [Stanley] Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' and the one-two punch of those two intensely visceral experiences ignited a fire in my mind that's stuck with me ever since," he continued. "It's when I first began to want to be a filmmaker. In many ways, 'Chasing the Moon' is the culmination of a lifetime of thoughts that have been churning through my mind about this extraordinary period in which I grew up, about the boundless ambition and promise of a brighter future that space travel inspired, the belief that anything is possible if we join together in a common goal, and the urgency it ignited to preserve and care for our home planet."
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The footage in this first episode is fascinating.

I choose to watch the next episodes, I choose to watch the next episodes, in this week and do the other things.

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 Post subject: Re: PBS:Chasing The Moon
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Buzz Aldrin's mom also committed suicide. I guess being an astronaut takes a greater toll on the family than you would think.

Why does everyone look so old? These guys were in great shape. They were in their late 30s. They look like they could be 60. Aldrin's mom offed herself at 64. She looked like she was 15 years older.

Buzz Aldrin in his 80s singing a lullaby to some moon land conspiracy hipster

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Frank Borman's diarrhea and vomit floating in the command module must have been a real treat.


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Frank Borman's diarrhea and vomit floating in the command module must have been a real treat.

That does sound delightful.

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Frank Borman's diarrhea and vomit floating in the command module must have been a real treat.

That does sound delightful.

When Lovell was going through his little 13 mishap, he was telling his guys to count themselves lucky. "A year ago I was cleaning Borman's shit and puke out my nostrils".


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Next week bros! 50 years! The greatest moment for our country and mankind!

I will wear an Apollo 11 badge that day.


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Yes, it was quite something but that television transmission was beyond terrible and very disappointing.


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I really want to watch this but maybe it's over.

CNN had a good show about the moon landing too.

50 years ago today we left here for there.

Still so amazing! Greatest moment in our country's history.


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I remember how as a kid at Cape Kennedy they'd preserved the launch pad where the Apollo 1 blew up. We went there, Huntsville and the Johnson Space center when I was a kid. It's really got kids minds rolling.

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Regular Reader wrote:
I remember how as a kid at Cape Kennedy they'd preserved the launch pad where the Apollo 1 blew up. We went there, Huntsville and the Johnson Space center when I was a kid. It's really got kids minds rolling.



Years ago I talked to a guy who lived like 25 miles away and said from his apt complex as a kid, he saw the rocket blast off in the distance but the rocket was so powerful it shook his apt bldg that far out.


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HawaiiYou wrote:
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I remember how as a kid at Cape Kennedy they'd preserved the launch pad where the Apollo 1 blew up. We went there, Huntsville and the Johnson Space center when I was a kid. It's really got kids minds rolling.



Years ago I talked to a guy who lived like 25 miles away and said from his apt complex as a kid, he saw the rocket blast off in the distance but the rocket was so powerful it shook his apt bldg that far out.


At some point I want to see a launch there in person.

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Interesting listening to Frank Borman recount his experiences talking about their trip around the moon on college campuses as opposed to overseas. On American college campuses they were treated in an antagonistic and even hostile manner, perhaps because to college kids they represented the establishment. Overseas, they were greeted with happiness, excitement, and congratulations. He said they were treated better in Russia than they were on American college campuses.


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Great watch . . . I really enjoyed that.


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Pretty amazing that it took millions of years for humans to fly, and then less than 70 more years to reach the moon.

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I didn't know that when the Apollo 11 crew went to other countries they had parades (some of them ticker tape) for them that were attended by enormous amounts of people. The world-wide excitement about and adoration of them was remarkable.


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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine acknowledges that the Artemis space program will be our initial foray to the Moon: https://bit.ly/2UbMrkh (13 seconds in or so)


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