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Apollo: The Mission Films
The Moon missions, in NASA's own films.
NASA's own films of the Apollo flights, from the first crewed test in Earth orbit to the last lunar landing.
Produced for NASA (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center and A-V Corporation, Houston)
Episodes
- The Flight of Apollo 7 · 14 min
The first crewed Apollo flight: Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham spend eleven days testing the command module in Earth orbit.
- Apollo 8: Go for TLI · 22 min
Borman, Lovell and Anders become the first humans to leave Earth orbit and circle the Moon on Christmas 1968.
- Apollo 10: To Sort Out the Unknowns · 26 min
The full dress rehearsal for a landing takes the lunar module within nine miles of the Moon's surface.
- The Eagle Has Landed: The Flight of Apollo 11 · 28 min
Launch, landing and moonwalk of Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, told through television, film and photographs from the mission.
- Apollo 12: Pinpoint for Science · 29 min
Conrad and Bean land beside the Surveyor 3 probe and set up the first long-term science station on the Moon.
- Apollo 14: Mission to Fra Mauro · 28 min
Alan Shepard returns to space to explore the Fra Mauro highlands with Edgar Mitchell, while Stuart Roosa orbits above.
- Apollo 15: In the Mountains of the Moon · 29 min
The first lunar rover carries Scott and Irwin across the Hadley-Apennine region beneath the Moon's highest mountains.
- Apollo 16: Nothing So Hidden · 28 min
Young and Duke explore the Descartes highlands by rover while Mission Control and scientists follow every step.
- Apollo 17: On the Shoulders of Giants · 28 min
The last Apollo landing: Cernan and Schmitt spend three days in the Taurus-Littrow valley as the program comes to a close.
Why this series is free to watch
This film was made by the U.S. government. Works made by federal employees as part of their jobs have no copyright in the United States, so anyone may show it.
