Last month, something caught my eye in the “Recently Added” column on Netflix. It was a documentary entitled Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo. Mission Control weaves a compelling history of the NASA Apollo program by combining interviews of the still-living flight directors and controllers with archival footage and computer animation. As somebody who was not yet living when the Apollo 1 launchpad disaster occurred and still making small steps in diapers when Neil Armstrong made “one giant leap for mankind,” I find this period of history fascinating. It boggles my mind that the backdrop to the achievements of the Apollo astronauts and their support teams were events like the Vietnam War and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy.
It’s a great story and if you’re only familiar with the Apollo 11 moon landing and Apollo 13 crisis, you’ll learn a lot about the other Apollo missions. And if you’re curious about the last moon mission, Apollo 17, you’ll want to put The Last Man On the Moon next in your Netflix queue. It’s a documentary about Gene Cernan, the last man on the moon, who died earlier this year. Created by the same team as Mission Control, I’ll write more about that film in a future article.
- Add Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo to your Netflix queue
- Watch Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo on Amazon Video
- Purchase Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo (Blu Ray edition) on Amazon.com
- Purchase Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control (paperback edition) on Amazon.com
- Purchase Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control (Kindle edition) on Amazon.com
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