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Status
Released
Release
2019
Runtime
1h 34m
Available options inUS
National Geographic's riveting effort recounts all 12 crewed missions using only archival footage, photos and audio.
23 Cast Members
Buzz Aldrin
Self - Lunar Module Pilot, Apollo 11 (archive footage)
Bill Anders
Self - Lunar Module Pilot, Apollo 8 (archive footage)
Neil Armstrong
Self - Commander, Apollo 11 (archive footage)
Frank Borman
Self - Commander, Apollo 8 (voice) (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite
Self - CBS News (archive footage)
Betty Grissom
Self - Wife of Gus Grissom (archive footage)
Jim Lovell
Self - Command Module Pilot, Apollo 8 (archive footage)
Walt Disney
Self (archive footage)
Ward Kimball
Self - Disney Animator (archive footage)
Wernher von Braun
Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage)
Joseph Sheahan
Self - NASA (archive footage)
James Burke
Self - BBC (archive footage) (archive sound)
Glynn Lunney
Self - NASA Flight Director (archive footage)
John Glenn
Self - Mercury Astronaut (archive footage)
Gus Grissom
elf - Apollo Astronaut (archive footage)
Gordon Cooper
Self (archive footage)
Wally Schirra
Self (archive footage)
Edward H. White II
Self (archive footage)
Roger B. Chaffee
Self - Apollo 1 Astronaut (archive footage)
Jerry Park
Self - WFAA, Dallas (archive footage)
