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it seems like going to the moon was easy

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it seems like these were superheroes who

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did it well no they were ordinary folks

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who work very very hard and sacrificed

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great it wasn't easy at all I was amazed

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to find out how how difficult this

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mission really was you know I think

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history has a way maybe of obfuscating

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some of those details and you sort of

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look back 50 years hence and think well

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these were superheroes and they sort of

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you know accomplished it it was almost

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easy for them and to see the sacrifice

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to see the cost to see the the doubt and

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uncertainty and just the insane

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commitment to a goal that it took I

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think was really inspiring but it made

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me and I think everyone involved in the

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film feel a tremendous responsibility

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you know it's like these were real

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heroes and you want to try to do them

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justice every mission had the goal of

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kind of pushing beyond where we were at

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and and that you have to fail in order

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to succeed and that was sort of in the

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ethos of NASA we started with shooting

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just interactions between the family and

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then we went on to the x-15 and then to

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the Gemini aid and then we ended with

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the Apollo 11 in there a moon landing so

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it just was constantly escalating this

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is a completely fresh looking Armstrong

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he's in the never all the history books

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but not really well I mean yeah he's

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known as this shadowy figure coming down

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the ladder and making saying these

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things famous words but really in terms

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of his personal story and even a lot of

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things about his career imagine from

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everything from naval aviation to his

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test pilot years and then what happened

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to him afterwards not really terribly

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well-known coming here and going to

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Houston and everything really gave me a

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look into like how the people think and

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what the programs sort of filter on you

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know

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problem-solving life goal achievement

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that sort of thing is and then also with

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the film it's like what it took for the

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people of this era to actually

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accomplish the feats the achievements

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have you know four hundred thousand

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people who made this happen that

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everyone had their own expertise and

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that they were NASA where anyway we were

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the innovators of so many things that we

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used today which I found really

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inspiring even people who lived through

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and we're alive and watching TV they

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really you know they got PR explanations

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of Armstrong's career and they got Life

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magazine coverage but they didn't they

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didn't really get the authentic story of

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what was going on inside of the personal

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life we were lucky enough to shoot here

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for a little bit we were lucky enough to

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get to go to Houston a bunch and

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research there NASA really opened its

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doors to us in a way that was just

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tremendously generous of them and

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without which I I don't think we would

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have been able to make the movie because

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it if you can't do it authentically if

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you can't try to do it accurately it

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felt like it wasn't worth doing it at

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all it was so personally enriching you

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know this experience to get to go to

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NASA to meet the people that work there

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I just thought you know someone said at

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one point at NASA that it's not who you

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know here it's what you know that's how

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your value is determined and I really

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felt that way when I was there there's a

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perspective I imagine that comes from

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working in space that is a really

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valuable perspective and I thought I

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felt personally