22-January-2007, 09:45 PM
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New Project Apollo movie: "In the Shadow of the Moon"
Reaching For the Moon At Sundance
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PARK CITY, Utah -- "I have two moons in my head."
That's Mike Collins, the pilot of the command module for Apollo 11, at the beginning of the movie. The moon all earthlings know and the moon he circled.
"I didn't sense any invitation from the moon to come into its domain," Collins recalls. "It was a hostile place, a scary place."
Only 12 men walked upon its surface. Three of them are dead. One, Neil Armstrong, is something of a recluse. But the other eight? For the first and perhaps last time, a filmmaker gathered these most rare human specimens together and let them describe in their own words what it felt it like -- and what it meant to them -- to visit another world.
The film by David Sington, "In the Shadow of the Moon," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and included footage unearthed from the NASA vaults that has never been widely seen before. Some of it is amazing. Discovery has acquired rights to show the movie on television and is seeking a distributor to put it into theaters.
The documentary is different from its genre in that it appears to be about feelings, which is not something the Apollo astronauts are famous for displaying.
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