| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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In the Shadow of the Moon. Dir. by David Sington. Prod. by Duncan Copp. Discovery Films and Channel Four, 2007. 100 mins. (Discovery Films, http://www.discoverychannelstore.com/)
Between July 1969 and December 1972, six Apollo spacecraft built by the National bbbbronautics and Space Administration (NASA) landed on the moon, allowing twelve astronauts to explore the lunar surface. NASA is planning to send more humans to the moon by 2020; but, in the meantime, those twelve men remain the only "people to have seen the Earth from an alien world," in the words of this remarkable documentary film.	1
In the Shadow of the Moon was released in late 2007, a year when NASA's reputation was crashing. The astronaut Lisa Nowak's drive from Texas to Florida, while wearing one of NASA's maximum absorbency garments, inspired mocking headlines such as "Dark Side of the Loon" and "Lust in Space." Shortly thereafter, unnamed astronauts were accused of drinking before flying, and persistent reports that NASA had suppressed data on climate change and air safety further damaged the agency's credibility.	2
Although the filmmakers had NASA's cooperation in obtaining historic footage from the agency's film archive, their primary goal presumably was not to polish NASA's reputation. But it is hard to watch this film and not admire the efforts of the scientists, engineers, and astronauts who made it all happen only eight years after President John F. Kennedy declared that the United States would put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s—and return him safely to Earth.	. . .

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