In the Shadow of the Moon (film)
- Buzz Aldrin
- Alan Bean
- Eugene Cernan
- Michael Collins
- Charles Duke
- Jim Lovell
- Edgar Mitchell
- Harrison Schmitt
- Dave Scott
- John Young
In the Shadow of the Moon is a British documentary about the U.S. space program in the 1960s and 1970s.
Content
The film mixes some of them hitherto unreleased footage from NASA TV with historical reports of Walter Cronkite and other footage of the events at that time. In recent interviews 10 astronauts describe their life has led them to NASA, their experiences during space flight and how the moon mission has affected their lives. The astronauts were:
- Apollo 11: Buzz Aldrin, pilot of the lunar module
- Michael Collins, pilot of the Apollo spacecraft
- Alan Bean, lunar module pilot of the
- Jim Lovell, commander ( Apollo 8 pilot of the Apollo spacecraft )
- Edgar Mitchell, lunar module pilot of the
- David Scott, commander, ( Apollo 9 pilot of the Apollo spacecraft )
- John Young, commander ( Apollo 10 pilot of the Apollo spacecraft )
- Charles Duke, pilot of the lunar module ( Apollo 11 CapCom )
- Eugene Cernan, commander ( in Apollo 10 lunar module pilot )
- Harrison Schmitt, lunar module pilot of the
Awards
At the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, the film won the Audience Award for best foreign documentary.