ORBIT: Journey To The Moon
Discovery HD will broadcast ORBIT: Journey To The Moon at 1am on July 20th and again at 8pm on July 21st 2009. Further broadcasts across the world will be updated here as they are confirmed.
“Here Men From The Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We Came in Peace For All Mankind.”
Welcome to “ORBIT: Journey To The Moon” – the story of man’s greatest achievement. Told through the original hand-held footage shot by the men who went there. We invite you into The Command Module Columbia and The Eagle Lunar Lander to experience the first moon landing in July 1969. With rarely seen before footage, shot on-board by the astronauts who went there, this film tells their story in their own words and pictures.
Featuring an original soundtrack composed to complement the film, alongside commentary between the three astronauts; Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene ‘Buzz’ Aldrin Jr. and Mission Control, ORBIT celebrates mankind’s greatest achievement and takes you on an emotional journey – from lift off at Cape Canaveral in Florida to landing the Eagle on the Sea of Tranquility on July 20th 1969 at 20:17:40 UTC.
Discovery HD Channel will broadcast this moving film on July 20th / 21st, the 40th anniversary of the original mission.
Apollo 11 left Earth on July 16, 1969, the journey took 8 days 03hs 18mins and 35s and they spent a total of 2hs 36m 40s on the lunar surface. They fulfilled President Kennedy’s dream of reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s when he announced; “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
Your mission, should you wish to join us, is to:
Download the iPhone game from the App Store here. (available August)
Orbit would like to thank NASA for the use of images and audio transmissions used in the making of this project.
