Tom Hanks' Documentary 'The Moonwalkers' Sheds Light on Apollo and Artemis Moon Missions
The immersive film, featuring no computer-generated images, includes interviews with astronauts set for humanity's first moonward journey in half a century.
- Tom Hanks has co-written and narrated a new immersive documentary titled 'The Moonwalkers', which focuses on the 12 men who walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972, and the new generation of astronauts set to return to the moon as part of the Artemis program.
- The documentary, which opens at the Lightroom in London, uses a high-tech blend of archive film footage, drawings, animation and digitally remastered photographs, with no computer-generated images.
- The documentary includes interviews with the four astronauts due to join the Artemis II mission, humanity’s first foray moonward in half a century.
- The Artemis II mission, launching no earlier than late 2024, will not land on the moon, but will fly around it and head back to Earth, a prelude to a lunar landing by two others a year later.
- The Artemis crew members include Victor Glover, who will be NASA’s first African American lunar astronaut, and Christina Koch, the first woman to go on a moon mission.