For All Mankind is a 1989 documentary film documenting the Apollo missions of NASA.
The film provides 80 minutes of real NASA footage, taken on the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The focus of the documentary is on the human views of the space flights, and the original mission footage is provided along with the voices of the astronauts, from interviews and from the actual mission recordings. Among those providing narration are Jim Lovell, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad, Jack Swigert, and Ken Mattingly.
Music for the film was originally composed in 1983 by Brian Eno and released as an album entitled Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. By the time of the film’s release in 1989, some of the album tracks had been replaced by other pieces by Eno and other artists, which can be found on the album Music for Films III.
bullshit they could barely achieve low orbit let alone go to the moon 6 times
A truly epic piece on the human will to explore. And i believe that another mission to the stars would be something grand enough to remind most humans today that we live on a pale blue dot, floating out there in the cosmic dark like a speck of dust in the morning breeze.
We need another space age YES! (and im not complaining about our unmanned missions of immense scientific value that are going on and being planned as i write)
Still an utterly compelling work documenting an astonishing adventure. Maybe this was Mankind’s last truly positive action.