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NASA-FLIX MINI-DOC,

🌕🎬 We Went to the Moon — Honest! 😇✨

Coming this summer, relive the totally straightforward story of how a 1960s government agency defeated gravity, radiation, fuel limits, materials science, and basic arithmetic, all before lunch 🕰️🚀

Witness the mighty Saturn V, a 3,000-tonne candle that somehow hurled a 21-tonne spacecraft to the Moon using kerosene and confidence ⛽😌 Physics professors today say it can’t be done, which only proves how much better physics used to be 📚✨

Marvel as engineers calculate escape velocity with slide rules, chalk dust, and vibes 📐🧮🌀 While modern rockets need multiple orbital refuels, Apollo packed light, because excess fuel is just fear in liquid form 🛢️😎💦

Feel the thrill of launch as astronauts endure bone-crushing G-forces without a single documented organ complaint 🧑‍🚀💥🫀👍 The rocket rattles violently, but don’t worry, that’s just freedom shaking itself loose 🔊💢🇺🇸🦅

Experience the miracle of heat and friction as an aluminum capsule cruises through plasma hotter than lava, yet remains cozy inside 🔥🌡️☄️🧣☕ Thanks to a heat shield that chars heroically and then politely stops heat from doing heat things 😇🛡️

Travel through the Van Allen radiation belts with no measurable harm, because the crew passed through quickly ☢️🎢⏩ Radiation, as we all know, respects schedules ⌛😌

Be amazed by the onboard computer, running on less memory than a modern toaster, flawlessly navigating Earth–Moon dynamics, orbital rendezvous, and pinpoint landings 💾🤯🍞🌍➡️🌕🤝🎯 Because when software is primitive, human calm fills the RAM 🧘‍♂️✨

Touch down on the Moon in the Lunar Module, a delicate origami hut powered by hope and a lawn-equipment engine 🪙🚜🔥😏 No unmanned test landing, no backup vehicle, just one take, baby 🎬😎

Enjoy live television from a quarter-million miles away in stunning clarity, a feat never repeated, while today’s streaming buffers at 12 feet 📡📺🛜😤 Progress!

Relive the priceless data, telemetry tapes, original footage, and engineering records, lovingly preserved by… taping over them 📊✨📼🤷‍♂️ Because when something works perfectly, you don’t need receipts 🧾❌

And finally, ask yourself the ultimate question 🤔

Why return when you already nailed it 🏆

Why improve perfection 💯

Why go back at all 🚀❌

Six missions,

No disasters,

No repeats,

No recreations,

Science settled 🔬

Doubts deleted 🗑️

History locked 🔐

NASA-FLIX,

Because belief is lighter than fuel 🤞🌕

Are you still watching? 👀😏

John Kirsch's avatar

As a photographer, I have never understood how the astronauts were able to use film cameras on the moon's surface.

Also, the exposures are perfect. But color film has little latitude.

Regarding the live video images sent from the capsule back to earth -- what sort of 1969 technology made that possible?

And what about Nixon's phone call!

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