NOVA - To the Moon
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Movie Reviews of NOVA - To the Moon
Movie Review: A Tale Well Told
Summary: 4 Stars
As a NASA employee of the (then) Manned Spacecraft Center, I was the rendezvous training instructor for Apollo 11. I was interested in hearing the history of Apollo before 1965, when I joined, and particularly the genesis of lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR), which became my preoccupation and specialty. I do regret that in this telling, as in nearly all others (Apollo 13, etc.), there is no indication that there was a separate organization of support engineers for the astronauts (Flight Crew Operations Directorate), which often had issues with the flight controllers, who were not the sovereign "Masters of the Universe" they portray themselves to be in memory. We often found ourselves arguing issues of on-board capability and autonomy vs. ground control with the Flight Operations Directorate (Chris Kraft, Gene Kranz, Glynn Lunney, et. al.). After Apollo, these guys won that argument with the result that both the shuttle and space station are -by design- annexes to the Mission Control Center.Movie Review: Not the average moon shot video
Summary: 4 Stars
A very good presentation beginning with the Mercury missions, through Gemini, and ending with Apollo 17. Not all the Apollo missions were detailed, but this video presented a nice, though compact, history of Americas race to the moon. I like the fact that Russia's missions were presented along with some video footage, plus how Apollo changed from simply "let's beat the Russians there" to a geological survey, with a good bit of info on how the later Apollo astronauts were given serious geological training. No extras, but worth the price.Movie Review: Good, but...
Summary: 4 Stars
The DVD is very interesting and discusses a lot about the early development of the space program and the push toward the moon. It includes parts of the Soviet space program that were new for me. Unfortunately, there are not enough cool space pictures for my taste. The program could trade a few of the animations (better than thoseI remember seeing in the late '60s) for more real shots of the moon and space.
Movie Review: The one scene is worth the price
Summary: 4 Stars
The one scene where you can clearly see a tall structure like a tower on the moon is worth the price of the movie alone.The rest is just ok,fairly interesting to boring.
The internet rumours are true,NASA missed editing out that one!
They're watching us,astronaut Mitchell was right.
Movie Review: Not without its problems
Summary: 3 Stars
I am more sanguine about the quality of this production than most of the reviewers here. 2.5 stars from me.This is a decent telling of many aspects of the Apollo program. There are some important interview segments. Curiously lacking are such astronaut interviews, in detail, for the actual moon landing mission!
The music is awful and pedestrian. There is little of the sense of wonder, effort, and the various machinations behind the scenes that led to the development of the program.
I would suggest that far more inspiring and of immense technical quality, though a dramatization, is From the Earth to the Moon. And as for a documentary, I suggest For All Mankind, which was up for an Academy award. In fact, I noted that many of the documentary segments in To The Moon cooberate these far better efforts.