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by TangoTrotFox 2756 days ago
A phenomenal movie on the Apollo program and our lead up to is "The Right Stuff" [1]. It's a 1983 film that I only ran into by complete coincidence. It holds up extremely well and is loaded with fun symbolism, real footage, and other stuff making it a multi-watcher. It also gets into the CIAs involvement and the dangerous relationship between visible progress and program/pilot safety.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_%28film%29

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The Right Stuff is about Mercury, not Apollo. Great movie though.