Synopsis
Debrief: Apollo 8” is an official NASA film produced in 1969 that takes the viewer inside the story of man’s first journey into orbit around the moon, with comments on the significance of the flight by several prominent Americans. Narrated by film and television actor Burgess Meredith, it includes photographs of the lunar surface, Earth as seen from the moon, and activities of the astronauts. Apollo 8, the second crewed mission in the United States Apollo space program, was launched on December 21, 1968 and became the first human-crewed space craft to leave Earth orbit, reach the Earth's Moon, orbit it and return safely to Earth. The three-astronaut crew — Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders — became the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit, the first to see Earth as a whole planet, and then the first to directly see the far side of the Moon. The 1968 mission, the first crewed launch of a Saturn V rocket, was also the first crewed launch from the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida, adjacent to Cape Canaveral. The film opens as Apollo 8’s 16mm camera pans across the lunar surface and we listen to a few transmissions from the crew before we move to the “beginning” of the story and gaze upon a Saturn V rocket. At mark 03:48 we watch the Apollo 8 crew lift off and hear Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, an American minister and author who promoted the concept of “positive thinking” as he explained how the mission…
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- Running time
- 27 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
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- Stock Footage