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A fascinating historical account

This documentary emphasizes the rising anxiety among the mission controllers, astronauts, and their families, NASA and the US government, and eventually the whole world via the news media - at least, for those with journalists at the scene. The personal reactions/body languages and team challenges of specialists working under extreme stress are fascinating to observe - plenty of thought-provoking content here for training courses, supplementing the usual Tom Hanks account focusing on the CO2 scrubber. ... There is loads of genuine Apollo footage (albeit supplemented by some fill-in content from other missions) plus contemporaneous TV coverage and home videos. If the evolving crisis doesn't spark your imagination, the remarkable scenes of a distant Earth viewed by three men, uncertain they would ever return, are well worth the watch. Even the crude TV "graphics" tell a story of the time. Bottom line: a superb documentary account of the near-disastrous mission - gripping stuff, highly recommended.

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