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went to see this tonight

Giles checks the schedules for the Swansea cinema frequently, and noticed that this was on for just one night tonight. I've got a bit of a thing about Apollo, having been a kid of 7 years old when Neil and Buzz made their landing. Me and my dad used to watch every mission's coverage avidly. It was incredibly cool to be a kid growing up at a time when people were actually building spaceships and sending them to the Moon and back. It was also incredibly sad when once the political point had been made funding and public enthusiasm for the missions evaporated into nothing.

The film was excellent, and I'll definitely be wanting to get a copy in hi-def (I guess that'll be Blu-ray now; at last my ps3 is finding some true usefulness };-)). It doesn't concentrate heavily on the scientific and technical aspects of the missions, although there is much beautiful footage from them (some of which I'd not seen before). We all know where these people went, and how. What is excellent in this film is that they tell us about how it felt to do all that, and how it affected them personally. Awesome, inspiring stuff which only goes to further reinforce my respect for these guys with balls of neutronium who did something amazing in spacecraft held together with hope, prayers and bits of string.