Film: The Last Man on the Moon

[Dalhousie]

I'll be hearing Gene Cernan speak tonight, so will get this DVD as soon as I can.

Great evening and great film too.  He's looking frailer in real life - more so than in the film, walking with a stick

[Kansan52]

Watched last night on Netflix. May need to watch again!

[Zed_Noir]

I'll be hearing Gene Cernan speak tonight, so will get this DVD as soon as I can.

Great evening and great film too.  He's looking frailer in real life - more so than in the film, walking with a stick

To be expected when one gets to his age.

[Comga]

I saw the premier with Capt. Cernan speaking afterwards. It was impressive and very moving. I had tears in my eyes.
Ignore the nits. See it as soon as you can.

[MattMason]

I saw the premier with Capt. Cernan speaking afterwards. It was impressive and very moving. I had tears in my eyes.
Ignore the nits. See it as soon as you can.

You made me realize why the film has that sadness. It ends with Cernan fishing on his ranch.

He's the last of the Apollo space cowboys. They are literally a dying breed, these moonwalkers.

[Lar]

Last in one sense but Buzz is still with us...

[JAFO]

Young (at heart) too.

[Dalhousie]

I was surprised there were no interviews with his other surviving crewmates, other than Tom Stafford.  It would have been good to hear from John Young and Jack Schmidt. 

[baldusi]

Saw it yesterday on Netflix. Moved me to tears and I it did an amazing job of transmitting the human side of the program, from friendship to tragedy and pride to family distance. I seriously recommend it to everyone.

[Borklund]

No excuse not to watch this now, if you haven't already.

RIP Gene Cernan 

[Oersted]

We won't get back to the Moon before they're all dead. Inexcusable. Come on Humanity: you could've done better.

[Kansan52]

Met him once. Really nice person.

Godspeed Gene.

[Poole Amateur]

Just spent a sad couple of hours watching this, now an obituary.

RIP Gene.

[Ben the Space Brit]

Indeed; RIP to Gene Cernan a great man who, already, small men and women are lining up to libel because it fits into their small, paranoid view of the world.

[MATTBLAK]

Indeed; RIP to Gene Cernan a great man who, already, small men and women are lining up to libel because it fits into their small, paranoid view of the world.

Agreed - I would swap all the grubby little Hoaxtard sheep in the world to have Cernan back

[woods170]

We won't get back to the Moon before they're all dead. Inexcusable. Come on Humanity: you could've done better.

Unfortunately, it was not humanity flying to the Moon, no matter how much NASA tried to play that card. Going to the Moon really was a race with just two participants: the USA and the USSR. The rest of world was doing it's own thing. They merely looked up from their daily worries and cheered for a few minutes when Neil stepped onto the Moon. But that was it.

[Dalhousie]

We won't get back to the Moon before they're all dead. Inexcusable. Come on Humanity: you could've done better.

Unfortunately, it was not humanity flying to the Moon, no matter how much NASA tried to play that card. Going to the Moon really was a race with just two participants: the USA and the USSR. The rest of world was doing it's own thing. They merely looked up from their daily worries and cheered for a few minutes when Neil stepped onto the Moon. But that was it.

That not how many of us who were alive then saw it.  We saw the Moon race as a human achievement, not just a race between two nations.  People from many nations were involved with Apollo and, to a much lesser degre,e with the Soviet unmanned lunar program. 

[Oersted]

We won't get back to the Moon before they're all dead. Inexcusable. Come on Humanity: you could've done better.

Unfortunately, it was not humanity flying to the Moon, no matter how much NASA tried to play that card. Going to the Moon really was a race with just two participants: the USA and the USSR. The rest of world was doing it's own thing. They merely looked up from their daily worries and cheered for a few minutes when Neil stepped onto the Moon. But that was it.

I saw it as Humanity, with the United States representing the best of all of us (and NASA representing the best of the US..).

All endeavours that have been accomplished by Humanity have been accomplished by a select few, "the tip of the sword". Nothing new about that. And most accomplishments grew out of inter-human rivalry. Also nothing new.

None of that negates that Humanity went to the moon; represented by the very best of us, the NASA astronauts.