Moon Landings | Looking back to NASA's Apollo lunar missions
CHANNEL | BBC Four FIRST BROADCAST | 27 February 2006 DURATION |
118 minutes 4 seconds July 1969 saw one of mankind's greatest
technological achievements - the first landing on the moon. In
this special compilation of archive footage, originally
broadcast as part of BBC4's 'Moon Night', Patrick Moore presents
the story of man's first steps onto another world. As Patrick
Moore notes at the beginning of this programme, much of the live
commentary and discussion from the BBC's presentation of the
moon landings has been lost. Producer Paul Vanezis pieced
together this compilation using all of the surviving footage,
including segments from the sound archives, bridged with
suitable material from NASA's own recordings. Patrick Moore was
then able to cover any missing segments with his own narration,
which was specially recorded for this broadcast. Man goes into
space - next stop: the moon! An astronomer states the case for
putting telescopes on the moon. I