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The Screening Room / The Space Age

Assignment: Shoot the Moon

1967 · 25 minutes · Colour

[FILM: Assignment: Shoot the Moon, 1967]

Before anyone walked on the Moon, robots photographed it: the Ranger, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter probes that scouted the landing sites.

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COLOUR22 min Apollo 8: Go for TLI1969 · NASA

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)

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

COLOUR30 min Apollo 16: Nothing So Hidden1972 · NASA

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