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|Apollo footage being screened at Science Museum
Between 1966 and 1972, Nasa collected around 22 hours of film footage during the Apollo missions, an archive that has been kept in cold storage at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston for the past 40 years.
In collaboration with the online archive film company Footagevault, the Science Museum will be screening the entire Apollo archive until August 31st.
Highlights of the footage include the 'Earthrise' moment captured on the Apollo missions 10, 11 and 12 and slow-motion views of the Saturn V rocket taking off.
Doug Millard, senior curator of space technology at the Science Museum, said: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
"Alongside the Science Museum's peerless collection of space technology, visitors this summer will get the exclusive chance to see exactly what the Apollo astronauts saw 40 years ago."
The initiative was launched to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Moon landings, which occurred on July 20th, 1969.
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