Jul 20 2009
The moon landing soap opera forty years on
Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landings.
Considered one of the most significant events in recent human history, it was this very day that Jim, Bob and Dave (?) starred in one of the most watched soap operas of all time, ‘Only Moons and Lunar Landing Modules‘.
To mark the anniversary of this momentous occasion, NASA have sanctioned an official DVD of the original televisual broadcast to be released. Imaginatively titled ‘That Big Ball of Rock In The Sky’, it will feature hours of digitally enhanced, HD footage of the day man walked on the moon.
But that’s not all. The DVD includes some never-before-seen extras sure to blow your socks off.
Neil Armstrong attempting to eat a Cadbury’s Dairy Milk - with hilarious results. He couldn’t get the chocolate to pass through his space suit helmet, and even if he did it would have been frozen solid.
Hilarious outtakes including the unseen ‘botched original landing’ never before seen outside NASA HQ. Check out Michael Collins’s rendition of ‘Yellow Submarine’ with special five-minute long refrain live from the moon’s surface.
Exclusive audio commentary from Ant and Dec, who probably weren’t even alive when the original landings happened, but what does that matter? They would have got the actual Houston dudes to do it, but cost-cutting has hit even the world’s biggest Aeronautics organisation of late.
Moon aliens falling over! Oh wait, it’s just Eddie Aldrin pulling his pants up after taking a pee. But some people say they can see an alien in the background anyway, so all hope is not lost for the extraterrestrial twitchers out there (and we know you exist)…
Over thirty deleted scenes featuring over an hour of the astronauts scratching their backsides and talking about what they had for dinner. Includes the actual process of how the astrodudes got the American flag to stick in the moon’s surface (sellotape) and how they had to collect handfuls of special moon dust for the druggies back on Earth.
Aldrin nicking Armstrong’s choccy bar, with even more hilarious results! (He threw it into orbit and raced it to the nearest crater. Oh, what a larf it must have been to walk on the moon.)
With the new DVD, NASA hope to reignite interest in trips to the moon, and entice a few wealthy space tourists with the prospect of walking around in a landscape that looks an awful lot like the Nevada desert. Good luck to them, I say.
DVD Extras taster:
