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The Screening Room / The Space Age

Apollo 8: Go for TLI

1969 · 22 minutes · Colour

[FILM: Apollo 8: Go for TLI, 1969]

The first people to leave Earth’s orbit: Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, who circled the Moon at Christmas 1968. "TLI" is trans-lunar injection — the engine burn that sent them away from home.

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The crew’s own film of Earth shrinking out of the window.

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COLOUR28 min The Eagle Has Landed: The Flight of Apollo 111969 · NASA (National Archives)

COLOUR28 min Apollo 13: Houston, We’ve Got a Problemc. 1970 · NASA

COLOUR28 min Apollo 17: On the Shoulders of Giants1973 · NASA

B&W28 min Universe1960 · National Film Board of Canada

COLOUR26 min Seeds of Discovery1970 · NASA (Wikimedia Commons)

COLOUR25 min Assignment: Shoot the Moon1967 · NASA (National Archives)

COLOUR29 min Apollo 15: In the Mountains of the Moon1971 · NASA

COLOUR30 min Apollo 16: Nothing So Hidden1972 · NASA

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