Which came first for Buzz Aldrin, the walk on the moon, or being portrayed in a movie?
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Return to Earth (film) Return to Earth is a 1976 American biopic TV movie that originally aired on May 14, 1976 on ABC. The film stars Cliff Robertson as astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Shirley Knight as Joan Aldrin. Based upon Aldrin's 1973 book of the same name, the film dramatizes the emotional difficulties of Aldrin's life following his trip to the moon on Apollo 11. The film was directed by Jud Taylor, and Aldrin served as a consultant.
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Buzz Aldrin Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American engineer and former astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, he was one of the first two humans to land on the Moon, and the second person to walk on it. He set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on July 21, 1969 (UTC), following mission commander Neil Armstrong. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer with the Command Pilot rating. He also went into orbit on the Gemini 12 mission, finally achieving the goals for EVA (space-walk work) that paved the way to the Moon and success for the Gemini program; he spent over five hours on EVA on that mission.
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Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" is an American patriotic song which was popular in the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Composed in about 1843, it was long used as an unofficial national anthem of the United States, in competition with other songs, and was featured in the 1957 musical "The Music Man". In 1969, "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" was the music performed by a U.S. Navy Band embarked aboard "USS Hornet" as one of the ship's helicopters recovered the first humans to walk on the Moon from the Pacific Ocean.
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Theo Kamecke Theo Kamecke (October 18, 1937 - May 23, 2017) is a sculptor, who previously worked as a film director during the 1960s and 1970s. Kamecke's best known film is "Moonwalk One" - a NASA commissioned documentary feature film to cover their Apollo 11 mission in the summer of 1969. Theo's other influential films included "The Incredible Bread Machine Film", and "To Be Alive", which he worked as a film editor on. Since the 1980s, Theo has worked as a sculptor, working in the medium of early electronic circuits. His work has been purchased by film director James Cameron.
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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon is a 1967 Eastman color British science fiction comedy film directed by Don Sharp and starring Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe and Terry-Thomas.
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Apollo 4 Apollo 4, (also known as AS-501), was the first unmanned test flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle, which was used by the U.S. Apollo program to send the first astronauts to the Moon. The space vehicle was assembled in the Vertical Assembly Building, and was the first to be launched from Launch Complex 39 at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, facilities built specially for the Saturn V.
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The Hobbit (1985 film) The Hobbit (full name The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit, Across the Wild Land, Through the Dark Forest, Beyond the Misty Mountains. There and Back Again, Russian: Сказочное путешествие мистера Бильбо Беггинса, Хоббита, через дикий край, чёрный лес, за туманные горы. Туда и обратно , "Skazochnoye puteshestviye mistera Bilbo Begginsa, Hobbita, cherez diky kray, chorny les, za tumannyye gory. Tuda i obratno") was a 1985 Soviet film adaption of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 book "The Hobbit" by Vladimir Latyshev.
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Zond 5 Zond 5, a member of the Soviet Zond program, was an unmanned spacecraft that in September 1968 became the second ship to travel to and circle the moon, and the first to return safely to Earth. Although unmanned, Zond 5 carried the first Earthlings to reach the moon, including two tortoises, mealworms, wine flies, plants, and other lifeforms, and was also the first to return moon travelers safely to Earth.
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Cliff Robertson Clifford Parker Robertson III (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor with a film and television career that spanned half a century. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film "PT 109", and won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the movie "Charly". On television, he portrayed retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the 1976 adaptation of Aldrin's autobiographic "Return to Earth", played a fictional character based on Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms in the 1977 miniseries "", and portrayed Henry Ford in the 1987 "Ford: The Man and the Machine". His last well-known film appearances were in 2002 through 2007 as Uncle Ben in the "Spider-Man" film trilogy.
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Man on the Moon (film) Man on the Moon is a 1999 American biographical comedy-drama film about the late American entertainer Andy Kaufman, starring Jim Carrey as Kaufman. The film was directed by Miloš Forman and also features Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, and Paul Giamatti.
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Around the Moon Around the Moon (French: Autour de la Lune , 1870), Jules Verne's sequel to "From the Earth to the Moon", is a science fiction novel which continues the trip to the moon which was only partially described in the previous novel. It was later combined with "From the Earth to the Moon" to create "A Trip to the Moon and Around It". "From the Earth to the Moon" and "Around the Moon" served as the basis for the film "A Trip to the Moon".
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Moonshot (film) Moonshot is a 2009 television film depicting the story leading up to the landing of Apollo 11 on the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969.
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Bart Sibrel Bart Winfield Sibrel (born 1964) is a conspiracy theorist who claims that the six Apollo Moon landings between 1969 and 1972 were hoaxes. He has produced four films on the subject, but is mostly known for having been punched in the face by Buzz Aldrin for harassing and insulting him.
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Fly Me to the Moon (disambiguation) "Fly Me to the Moon" is a song made famous by Frank Sinatra.
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Alaska: Spirit of the Wild Alaska: Spirit of the Wild is a 70mm American documentary film featuring the landscape and wildlife of Alaska. It is narrated by Charlton Heston and released to IMAX theaters in 1997.
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Arctic Flight Arctic Flight is a 78-minute 1952 drama film , directed by Lew Landers and produced by Monogram Pictures. The film stars Wayne Morris, Alan Hale Jr. and Lola Albright. "Arctic Flight" depicts bush pilot flying in the Arctic on the edge of the International Date Line, involving Soviet intrigue.
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Soviet crewed lunar programs The Soviet crewed lunar programs were a series of unsuccessful programs pursued by the Soviet Union to land a man on the Moon, in competition with the United States Apollo program to achieve the same goal set publicly by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961. The Soviet government publicly denied participating in such a competition, but secretly pursued two programs in the 1960s: crewed lunar flyby missions using Soyuz 7K-L1 (Zond) spacecraft launched with the Proton-K rocket, and a crewed lunar landing using Soyuz 7K-LOK and LK Lander spacecraft launched with the N1 rocket. Following the dual American successes of the first crewed lunar orbit on December 24–25, 1968 (Apollo 8) and the first Moon landing on July 20, 1969 (Apollo 11), and a series of catastrophic N1 failures, both Soviet programs were eventually brought to an end. The Proton-based Zond program was canceled in 1970, and the N1 / L3 program was terminated de facto in 1974 and officially canceled in 1976. Details of both Soviet programs were kept secret until 1990 when the government allowed them to be published under the policy of "glasnost".
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Night Walk (novel) Night Walk is a science fiction novel by Bob Shaw, first published in 1967.
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Keir Dullea Keir Dullea ( ; born May 30, 1936) is an American actor best known for the character of astronaut David Bowman, whom he portrayed in the 1968 film "", and in 1984's "2010: The Year We Make Contact". Other film roles include "Bunny Lake Is Missing" (1965) and "Black Christmas" (1974).
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Moonwalking with Einstein Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything is a nonfiction book by Joshua Foer, first published in 2011. "Moonwalking with Einstein" debuted at no. 3 on the "New York Times" bestseller list and stayed on the list for 8 weeks.
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City on the Moon City on the Moon is a science fiction novel by Murray Leinster. It was released in 1958 by Ace Books under authority from Thomas Bouregy & Co using their Ace Double imprint reference number D-277. The novel details the events that unfold subsequent to an apparent sabotage attempt made against a lunar jeep on its return journey to the multinational civilian lunar city. This story was first published by Avalon Books in 1957. "City on the Moon" forms part of the To the Stars series by the same author, with two preceding books being "Space Platform" and "Space Tug".
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The Teahouse of the August Moon (film) The Teahouse of the August Moon is a 1956 American comedy film that satirizes the U.S. occupation and Americanization of the island of Okinawa following the end of World War II in 1945. The film starred Marlon Brando and was directed by Daniel Mann.