#First man on the moon movie flag tv#

Although this moment is not confirmed to have actually happened in real life, the concept of Neil doing this is taken from First Man: The Life of Neil A. But, once he lands on the moon, the bracelet returns.įirst Man shows Neil tossing the bracelet into the Little Crest Crater on the moon. He then begins to shut off most of his emotions and rarely discusses the death of his daughter with anyone. In the film, after she dies, Neil takes one of her bracelets and locks it away. The movie begins by showing how Neil's relationship with his daughter, Karen, who passed away at the age of 2 following health complications related to a brain tumor. 'It's hard to feel optimistic and excited and focused on exploration when these horrible atrocities are happening on earth,' she says.īut for what it's worth, the astronauts had a pretty good time.The main emotional thread for First Man is actually related to Neil's personal life, but one that ties into his astronaut career. Muir-Harmony believes this is the real reason Apollo 12 never got much attention.

On the second day the astronauts were on the moon, pictures emerged of a massacre at a town called My Lai. Meanwhile, in Vietnam things kept getting worse. The president was trying to negotiate an arms control treaty with the Soviets. 'But they could tell that Nixon's focus was elsewhere,' The Apollo 12 astronauts had dinner with President Richard Nixon at the White House, Muir-Harmony says. They returned to Earth and made a perfect landing in the Pacific.Īlthough they received the same honors as the Apollo 11 crew, things were different. Conrad let Bean drive the lunar module a little bit, even though he wasn't supposed to. The lack of images may be one reason that the mission is not as well remembered as some of the others, Muir-Harmony says.Ĭonrad and Bean lifted off on November 20.

#First man on the moon movie flag tv#

Shortly after landing, Bean accidentally pointed the lunar surface TV camera directly at the Sun, frying its circuitry. Unfortunately, there's very little footage of the astronaut's antics. We're not being told what to say by the government.'' 'And he made a bet (I think it's about a $500 bet) saying, 'No, we can say whatever we want.

government had dictated Neil Armstrong's first words. As part of their planned activities, the astronauts later visited the spacecraft, the only time humans have gone to poke a robotic probe sent ahead of them.Ĭonrad first words as he stepped onto the surface were actually part of a bet with a journalist, Muir-Harmony says.

He nailed the landing, on the edge of a crater and just 600 feet from a robotic probe known as Surveyor III. Conrad was 'considered one of the best pilots, if not the best pilot of the Apollo astronauts,' she says. 'The major focus of Apollo 12 was the pinpoint landing,' Muir-Harmony says. If Apollo 11 was about proving it was possible to land on the moon, Apollo 12 was about doing it better. 'These guys were all friends, they all knew each other before they became Apollo astronauts,' Muir-Harmony says. Alan Bean and Pete Conrad were the third and fourth people to walk on the moon.