July 11, 2019
2019-07-11T18:00:00
206 Partin Drive North
Niceville, FL 32578
Space Documentary Series @ the Library
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Join us for a screening of the PBS documentary "Apollo's Daring Mission."
Seating is limited, so please call or email the library to sign up.
About the film:
Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon. The U.S. space program suffered a bitter setback when Apollo 1 ended in a deadly fire during a pre-launch run-through. In disarray, and threatened by the prospect of a Soviet Union victory in the space race, NASA decided upon a radical and risky change of plan: turn Apollo 8 from an earth-orbit mission into a daring sprint to the moon while relying on untried new technologies. Fifty years after the historic mission, the Apollo 8 astronauts and engineers recount the feats of engineering that paved the way to the moon.