I'm not sure why no one told me about it before but I will now tell all four of you: run, don't walk to your nearest purveyor of video discs & rent, download, or purchase the documentary For All Mankind. I did not expect to laugh, cry (almost), or be rendered frozen, unable to eat another carrot nub while I waited for the Saturn V to lift off, but I was. Unbelievable. If I had seen the movie when I was 14 I may have tried to be an astronaut.
- read director Al Reinert's short Criterion weblog entry about the movie here
- Apollo 8's (first manned flight to leave the Earth's orbit & circle the moon) wikipedia page is here
- Apollo 11's (first to land on the moon) wikipedia page is here
Anyone who finds me a copy of the original laserdisc may get a hug.