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Cultural depictions of Michael Collins (astronaut)
- Moonshot (2009 film)On the 20th of July 1969, a Lunar Module named Eagle touched down on the surface of the Moon. This event marked the culmination of years of intense…
- Moonwalk OneIn early 1969, Francis Thompson and his partner Alexander Hammid received a call from NASA. They were the creators of To Be Alive!, which won an Academy…
- First Man (film)In early 2003, actor-director Clint Eastwood and production people at the Warner Bros. studio bought the film rights to James R.
- Apollo 11 (2019 film)In May 2017, a team led by director Todd Douglas Miller stood before the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland.
- Transformers: Dark of the MoonParamount Pictures announced a third Transformers film on the 16th of March 2009. Director Michael Bay initially thought the release date of the 1st of July…
- Apollo 11 (1996 film)The year 1995 brought a massive box office hit with the film Apollo 13. Executive producer James Manos Jr. saw an opportunity to follow that success.
- From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Tom Hanks formed a production partnership in 1995 to bring Andrew Chaikin's book A Man on the Moon to television.
- Men in Black 3Barry Sonnenfeld received the initial premise for Men in Black 3 from Will Smith during filming of the second movie in 2002.
- Apollo 11 in popular cultureOver 53.5 million US households tuned in to watch the Apollo 11 mission across the two weeks it was on TV, making it the most watched TV programming up to…
- For All Mankind (TV series)In 1969, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov steps onto the lunar surface before any American astronaut. This single event shatters the morale of NASA and forces…
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyPlans for a fifth Indiana Jones film date back to 1979, when George Lucas and Steven Spielberg made a deal with Paramount Pictures to produce five films.