TV is over the moon with specials recounting 1969 上陸

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The 1969 moon 上陸 turned an 業績/成就 seen only in the imagination and sci-fi movies into a most improbable television event, a live broadcast starring Neil Armstrong and a desolate landscape.

The astounding images from more than 200,000 miles away mesmerized テレビ視聴者s, a feat TV hopes to replicate 主要な up to the Apollo 11 使節団's 50th 周年記念日 on July 20.

There's a 星雲 of programs about the science, the people and the sheer wonder of the voyage, 含むing 文書のs with (映画の)フィート数 and 音声部の not made public before and, of course, modern special 影響s to make it all the more vivid.

の中で the 最高潮の場面s (all times EDT):

- "Apollo: 使節団s to the Moon," 国家の Geographic, 9 p.m. Sunday. The two-hour film by Tom Jennings uses a mix of TV and 無線で通信する news accounts, home movies, 航空宇宙局 (映画の)フィート数 and 以前 unaired 使節団 支配(する)/統制する 音声部の recordings to revisit all the 乗組員を乗せた Apollo 使節団s.

- "The Day We Walked on the Moon," 9 p.m. Sunday, Smithsonian Channel. A by-the-minute description of the day of the moon 使節団 by those who were part of it, 含むing 宇宙飛行士 Michael Collins, and those who 見解(をとる)d it from afar, such as Queen guitarist and scientist Brian May.

FILE - In this image provided by NASA, astronaut Buzz Aldrin poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. Television is marking the 50th anniversary of the July 20, 1969, moon landing with a variety of specials about NASA's Apollo 11 mission. (Neil A. Armstrong/NASA via AP, File)

FILE - In this image 供給するd by 航空宇宙局, 宇宙飛行士 Buzz Aldrin po ses for a photograph beside the U.S. 旗 (軍隊を)展開する,配備するd on the moon during the Apollo 11 使節団 on July 20, 1969. Television is 場内取引員/株価 the 50th 周年記念日 of the July 20, 1969, moon 上陸 with a variety of specials about 航空宇宙局's Apollo 11 使節団. (Neil A. Armstrong/航空宇宙局 経由で AP, とじ込み/提出する)

- "American Experience: Chasing the Moon," PBS and pbs.org, 9 p.m. July 8-10 (check 地元の listings). Robert 石/投石する's six-hour 文書の, narration-解放する/自由な and using only archival (映画の)フィート数, 跡をつけるs the space race from its start to the lunar 上陸 and beyond, 診察するing the 科学の 革新, politics, personal 演劇 and マスコミ spectacle that propelled it.

- "From the Earth to the Moon," HBO 壇・綱領・公約s starting July 15. The 1998 miniseries is 支援する with its 初めの visual 影響s 取って代わるd by computer-生成するd ones based, によれば HBO, on 航空宇宙局 言及/関連 models. The cast 含むs Sally Field, Gary Cole and Tom Hanks, who also produced the 演劇 利用できる on HBO Go, HBO Now and HBO On 需要・要求する. A HBO channel マラソン 公表/放送 of all 12 episodes begins at 8:45 a.m. July 20.

- "8 Days: To the Moon and 支援する," PBS, 9 p.m. July 17 (check 地元の listings). Co-produced by PBS and BBC Studios, the new film 跡をつけるs the 使節団 from countdown to (宇宙船の)着水 with a combination of recently 秘密制限を解除するd 音声部の, interviews with the Apollo 11 乗組員, 使節団 re-(法の)制定s, archival TV news (映画の)フィート数 and photographs.

- "航空宇宙局's 巨大(な) Leaps: Past and 未来," 航空宇宙局 TV and 発見 Science Channel, 1 p.m. July 19. A salute to the Apollo 宇宙飛行士s and to the space 機関's 未来 使節団s, broadcast from the Kennedy Space 中心 and with segments from the Johnson Space 中心 in Houston and the Museum of Flight in Seattle, where the Apollo 11 命令(する) module is on 陳列する,発揮する.

- "Apollo: The Forgotten Films," 発見, 8 p.m. July 20. (映画の)フィート数 from 航空宇宙局, the 国家の 古記録s, news 報告(する)/憶測s and other sources 供給するs a behind-the-scenes look at how engineers, scientists and 宇宙飛行士s 達成するd the moon 上陸 goal 始める,決める earlier i n the 10年間 by 大統領 John F. Kennedy.

- "The 国家の Symphony Orchestra Pops 現在のs Apollo 11: A Fiftieth 周年記念日," PBS, 9 p.m. July 20. 航空宇宙局, the Kennedy 中心 for the 成し遂げるing Arts and the symphony 共同製作するd for this musical and visual 尊敬の印 to the moon 上陸, with 外見s by Pharrell Williams, Natasha Bedingfield and LeVar Burton. Meredith Vieira and Adam Savage host.

- "Apollo 11," CNN, 9 p.m. July 20. The 文書の film from director-生産者 Todd Douglas Miller recounts the 使節団 from the Saturn V ロケット/急騰する's 輸送(する) to its 開始する,打ち上げる pad to the 宇宙飛行士s' return to Earth, using newly discovered 70mm (映画の)フィート数, 広範囲にわたる 音声部の recordings and other digitized and 回復するd 構成要素 from the 国家の 古記録s and 航空宇宙局.

- "Moon 上陸 Live," BBC America, 9 p.m. July 20. News 古記録s from around the world and 航空宇宙局 (映画の)フィート数 are used to recount the 使節団's ambition and 業績/成就 and how it 逮捕(する)d international attention.

- "自白s from Space: Apollo," 発見, 10 p.m. July 20. The program with the tabloid-sounding 肩書を与える gathers six 宇宙飛行士s who took part in Apollo program 使節団s to 共同で 株 their memories and insights. の中で them are Apollo 11's Collins and Buzz Aldrin and Charles Duke of Apollo 16.

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Lynn Elber can be reached at lelber@ap.org and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lynnelber.

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