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ORGANIZER:The Royal Institution of Great Britain
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DESCRIPTION:Following on from last week's discussion on manned space explor
 ation\, we're screening this feature film which includes a wealth of origin
 al archive material on the Apollo programme and the Moon landings. 
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 e film\, 10 years in the making\, contains extraterrestrial film footage sh
 ot by the astronausts themselves that has only been brought out of storage 
 a handful of times sionce the sixties and seventies. The film footage is co
 nsidered so unique and so valuable that the original film is stowed under l
 iquid nitrogen. You can understand why the NASA authorities feel so preciou
 s about it. After all\, there's not been any more footage of the Moon shot 
 by a living breathing human being since Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan an
 d Jack Schmitt blasted off from the lunar surface in 1972. In 2005 this rar
 e material was removed from storage once more and carefully transferred ont
 o High Definition Tape\, to ensure its survival.
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\nThese precious reels 
 represent only the tiniest fraction of the footage filmed by technicians be
 tween NASA's inception in 1957 and the termination of the Apollo program in
  1972. Thankfully the management at the time considered it a priority to pr
 eserve this visual record of their most remarkable endeavour\, in which 400
 \,000 scientists and engineers came together to make Kennedy's dream of lan
 ding a man on the Moon ‘before the end of the decade'\, a reality.
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SUMMARY:In the shadow of the moon
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