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24 August 2009

"Houston...Tranquility Base here...The Eagle has landed." Scene from the documentary For All Mankind.
I just watched the Criterion DVD of this last night, and it's amazing.→[More:]The visuals are, of course, awe-inspiring, but the soundtrack is just about at the same level. The soundbites taken from the actual NASA mission tapes are spliced perfectly with astronaut interview snippets and (foleyed?) sound effects into a hypnotic sound montage. And of course, there's all that lovely Brian Eno music... The menu screens alone are a thing of beauty.

post by: Atom Eyes at: 12:30 | 7 comments

Man, inspirational space stuff always chokes me up. Some people cry at movies. I cry in planetariums.

posted by The Whelk 24 August | 14:48

These pages are old, but still great if you like to read about Apollo (and see lots of actual documents from the program).

posted by Wolfdog 25 August | 07:54

Bookmarked, thanks!

I just finished the (excellent) book Rocket Men, and now I'm on a bit of a moon kick. (AKA I'm being followed by a moon shadow.)

posted by Atom Eyes 25 August | 10:13

I've been reading a ton of stuff about solar system exploration this summer, mostly nonfiction (if I could schedule my next vacation at liberty it would go to Venus, Europa, and Titan). But I also just finished Moonseed, which is very hard SF, not a really stupendous novel in a lot of ways, but the latter half of the book revolves around sending an ad-hoc mission to the moon, and the realism is just stunning.

posted by Wolfdog 25 August | 10:22

Today's featured article on English wikipedia is pretty wonderful, too.

posted by Wolfdog 25 August | 13:12

Nice. And this pic looks like a cross-section of an Everlasting Gobstopper.

posted by Atom Eyes 25 August | 13:54

Or a tinted contact lens I would totally buy.

posted by Wolfdog 25 August | 14:06

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