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| Remembering a Time When the Whole World Looked Up, Discovery Channel Presents the Canadian Broadcast Premiere of Ron Howard’s In The Shadow of the Moon |
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on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 07:55 PM |
Today there are seven billion humans on planet Earth – and only 12 of them have ever walked on another world. Discovery Channel celebrates the courage, optimism and innovation of the Apollo space program with two new back-to-back specials. On Sun., June 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, Discovery Channel presents the Canadian Broadcast Premiere of Ron Howard’s feature-length theatrical documentary, In the Shadow of the Moon. Screened at the 2007 Hot Docs festival in Toronto and a multiple award-winner, including the World Cinema Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, In the Shadow of the Moon is intimate in tone and epic in scope, an enthralling film that captures a historical moment when America’s space exploration ambitions – and achievements – were embraced and celebrated around the world. Back-to-back with In the Shadow of the Moon, Discovery Channel will also premiere Apollo 13: The Inside Story on Sun., June 29 at 8 p.m. ET/11 p.m. PT. With firsthand testimony and evocative archive footage, this gripping one-hour special reveals what really happened on that fateful flight that captivated the world for four tension-fraught days in 1970.
In the Shadow of the Moon
Sun., June 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the men who journeyed to, and walked on, the moon – in their own words. One of the defining passages of American history, the Apollo space program literally brought the aspirations of a nation to another place. Visually stunning NASA film footage – much of it never seen before – is interwoven with riveting firsthand testimony to provide an unparalleled perspective on the fragile state of our planet. Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft journeyed to the moon, and 12 of its Apollo program astronauts set foot on its surface – and no living being has stepped on the moon since 1972 and the disbandment of the Apollo program. These 12 men remain the only humans to have stood on another world. In the Shadow of the Moon brings together for the first – and very possibly the last – time surviving crew members from every single Apollo mission that flew to the moon, including Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong. Together, this exclusive band of men share their unique and life-changing perspective on these missions, the cumulative efforts of 400,000 scientists and engineers who came together to make President John F. Kennedy’s dream of landing a man on the moon “before the end of the decade” a reality – one shared and celebrated not just by America but by all of humanity.
Apollo 13: The Inside Story
Sun., June 29 at 8 p.m. ET/11 p.m. PT
When a violent explosion tore through the fragile skin of the Apollo 13 spacecraft 320,000 kilometres from Earth in April 1970, NASA mounted the most dramatic rescue mission in the history of human exploration. For the first time, Apollo 13 astronauts James Lovell and Fred Haise, and their flight controllers, reveal just how close they came to fatal disaster, the devastating extent of the damage and the inside story of how human ingenuity triumphed over adversity. This is the ultimate survival story, in which three people’s lives hung by a thread hundreds of thousands of kilometres out in space.
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