When We Were Apollo

What made it so successful were the people.

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2019 / 80min.

Rating6

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

Who were the men and women of Project Apollo? Where are they today? What do they think of the extraordinary effort they helped make possible? Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing in 2019, When We Were Apollo is an intimate and personal look at the Apollo Space Program through the lives and experiences of some of its most inspiring behind-the-scenes figures: engineers, technicians, builders and contractors who spent the better part of a decade working to get us to the moon and back.

Directors

Zachary Wheil

Actors

Bill Chandler

John Tribe

Bob Barnini

Brooks Moore

Wallace Johnson

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