This is an utter joy to watch on every level: the surprisingly crisp footage taken from the Apollo missions to the moon, interspersed with the astronauts own words about the events, underscored by their selection of music which they took on the voyages makes for a complete firsthand glimpse into what truly is the event of the 20th century.  It is also a well-crafted documentary, a piece of art which went beyond my expectations.  Those who watched the first steps of Neil Armstrong on the moon in real-time must have felt something akin to the awe I felt in Reinhart's assemblage, probably less so seeing as this is an artistic enhancement by the manipulation of music and dialogue, but then I will never know.  There was a commercial on last month about the new Windows Vista which collects a series of events which make you stop and go 'wow'... and they use the Armstrong footage as an example... so it has become a cliche... but seeing it in the context of this documentary/historical document I cannot but utter the same kind of 'wow' ... it does make everything else look insignificant in comparison... it does unify all mankind in a way, it transcends all petty differences in its profundity.  

Very cool:  Kubrick's 2001 preceded the first misson to the moon, and the theme music was taken on the first mission where the astronauts got to watch the panorama of  space with that soundtrack climaxing in the background... how cool is that.