| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Race to the Moon: The Daring Adventure of Apollo 8. Dir. by Kevin Michael Kertscher. WTTW/Chicago and Indigo Studios, Inc., 2005. 60 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314; 800-531-4727; http://www.shoppbs.org/)

The master narrative of the Apollo program has been well established in public consciousness, and Race to the Moon: The Daring Adventure of Apollo 8 is a superb restatement of this story. Undertaken in December 1968, this was the first circumlunar flight, and the astronauts Frank Borman, William A. Anders, and James Lovell Jr. are center stage in the story. Using historic footage and interviews with the astronauts and their wives, Christopher Kraft, and the aerospace writer Andrew Chaikin, the film offers a tight, well-executed account of the mission's origins and execution. Drawing information from a broad set of researchers, including myself, it emphasizes the "gutsy" decision making that prompted the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) to reconfigure Apollo 8 fly to the moon, a decision that Kraft estimated had a fifty-fifty chance of success. Its goal: recovering from the Apollo 1 accident that killed three astronauts in January 1967 and returning Apollo to a schedule that would allow a moon landing by the end of the decade.

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