Tony Palmer"s Film Of The Space Movie. Music By Mike Oldfield

Тони Палмер Man"s longing for the stars is as old as man himself. For thousands of years, man has dreamed of journeying beyond planet earth. And yet, in less than a hundred years, that dream has become a reality. The progress from weird and wonderful contraptions which hopped and jumped a few inches off the ground to man"s first landing on the moon, is one of the most astonishing achievements of the 20th Century. This film is a celebration of that achievement. The Space Movie, made in 1979 at the request of NASA to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Neil Armstrong"s historic journey, was itself a special achievement. First, NASA and The United States National Archive made all the footage (which is now famous the world around) available for the very first time, including never before seen film of the lunar landscape, life aboard the spacecraft, the Space Shuttle, Mars, Venus and beyond. Even more importantly, NASA released the extraordinary (and scary) soundtracks of the all the conversations...