I liked it. Visually excellent. Tatum was better in the role than I imagined. Didnt know Woody and Ray were in it. Woody doesn't age apparently.

Some good music throw in as well.

Edited to add some IMDb trivia:

Cole's backstory is partially based on Deke Slayton. Slayton was a pilot in World War II, joined NASA as an astronaut for the Mercury program but was grounded due to atrial fibrillation, and became director of Flight Crew Operations for the Apollo program.

As several scenes were shot on site at the Kennedy Space Center, many of the background NASA engineers were played by actual NASA, SpaceX, and Boeing engineers.

The Westinghouse video camera that is supposed to be a last minute addition to the side of the lunar landing vehicle was already familiar to NASA technicians as it had already been in space on the Apollo 10 mission, albeit inside the capsule with the astronauts to test its reliability. The film also claimed it weighed 15 pounds when reality it weighed slightly over 7. For Apollo 11 it was decided to attach it externally, although there was some concern that due to the fragile components inside, it may not survive the landing. Fortunately it did continue to work after Eagle landed on the surface and captured Armstrong and Aldrin's historic first steps.

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Lafayette

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Posted on 8/20/24 at 7:57 pm to sqerty

It took a little over an hour to kinda do what the synopsis said it was gonna do because they had to familiarize you with Scarlett’s character so I liked the second hour more than the first

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