Moon Machines
The Cold War, the tension that the two biggest nations were having during the 1950's up to 1970's had the world on the border of their seats and with fear that only apocalypse could match, while people not only from the United States and the Soviet Union but from all around world (as these two nations were the most powerful at that time) had fear that a Third World/Nuclear War could arise and wipe out all life from Earth, these two sides had other things in mind (sort of).
Since the dawn of human era, to look up at the sky at night and find out that a circular rock in space gave light at night was enough to give the curiosity to find out what was on that rock that was going to be know as moon. No one ever imagined that reaching the moon was even possible, so what a better way to express superiority that by being the first one not only to get there, but why not? to put a man up there and show it off to the world.
But first in order to do that it was needed to reach space itself, surpass the atmosphere and to know that whatever was sent was still alive/functional. When soviets achieved that with the Sputnik Satellite, USA rushed to beat the soviets in getting to the moon and that's how this documentary begins.
I particularly didn't knew the history of how mankind reached the moon, so to finally get to know how was the process, all the struggle that surrounded the project, the people such as engineers, investigators and scientists had to pass in order to beat the soviets.
From this project Apollo, I only had knowledge of the astronauts Neil Armstrong y Edwin Buzz Aldrin and Margaret Hamilton and only because of popular culture and commonly known facts, so to actually find out what was involved and what had to happen in order to put a man on the moon.
I knew that it wasn't easy, a lot of complex processes, machinery, computing and calculations were involved that I may have never imagined although that's what I think now, however after watching the video I noticed that with many things used on the missions my reaction was like "Oh! That actually makes sense!", yes, at that time everything implemented was like relatively new or completely new made specifically for this, so making and figuring out what and how to do was difficult even for the experts at that time hence why so many years were spent to fulfill the mission.
There were parts that I wasn't able to understand, old people speaking on a old documentary was difficult to understand, but I think that I managed to understand most of the dialogue.
I liked that on some parts there was too much "content" so I was able to completely understand somethings, on other parts there was too much content that I was becoming overwhelmed and bored; lastly, there were parts that I hoped to had more content, were briefly explained and sometimes I had rewatch that part or be left with the doubt.
A good documentary, sure, however I would gladly accept a longer version giving more depth to how some processes and things were developed......and subtitles, that will make it perfect.
I particularly didn't knew the history of how mankind reached the moon, so to finally get to know how was the process, all the struggle that surrounded the project, the people such as engineers, investigators and scientists had to pass in order to beat the soviets.
From this project Apollo, I only had knowledge of the astronauts Neil Armstrong y Edwin Buzz Aldrin and Margaret Hamilton and only because of popular culture and commonly known facts, so to actually find out what was involved and what had to happen in order to put a man on the moon.
I knew that it wasn't easy, a lot of complex processes, machinery, computing and calculations were involved that I may have never imagined although that's what I think now, however after watching the video I noticed that with many things used on the missions my reaction was like "Oh! That actually makes sense!", yes, at that time everything implemented was like relatively new or completely new made specifically for this, so making and figuring out what and how to do was difficult even for the experts at that time hence why so many years were spent to fulfill the mission.
There were parts that I wasn't able to understand, old people speaking on a old documentary was difficult to understand, but I think that I managed to understand most of the dialogue.
I liked that on some parts there was too much "content" so I was able to completely understand somethings, on other parts there was too much content that I was becoming overwhelmed and bored; lastly, there were parts that I hoped to had more content, were briefly explained and sometimes I had rewatch that part or be left with the doubt.
A good documentary, sure, however I would gladly accept a longer version giving more depth to how some processes and things were developed......and subtitles, that will make it perfect.
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