Footprints on the Moon ☽ The Moon & Mankind

¶ Science Exploration Films (2019)

Alejandro Mos Riera
3 min readJul 29, 2018
Aldrin bootprint; part of an experiment to test the properties of the lunar regolith
Buzz Aldrin poses on the Moon, allowing Neil Armstrong to photograph both of them using the visor’s reflection
Buzz Aldrin salutes the deployed United States flag during the EVA on the lunar surface.
Eagle’s ascent stage approaching Columbia
“This is the gold replica of an olive branch, the traditional symbol of peace, left on the Moon’s surface by Apollo 11 crew members. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, placed the small replica (less than half a foot in length) on the Moon. The gesture represented a wish for peace for all mankind.” — NASA

The Moon is made of the dreams of all those dreamers who looked at it through the night of the centuries.

This film tells the dream of a feat of men who traveled on the shoulders of giants, where only dreams had come, not because it was easy but because it was difficult.

From the beginning, human beings have looked to the firmament and tried to understand the nature and greatness of the cosmos. This film is a document of space exploration and human history in one of its greatest milestones of the human family travels the path of the great dreams of humanity.

Life is like the ways of the earth, on earth there were no roads, they have been made by steps of passers-by.

On the Moon there was maybe only a magnificent desolation, but there are traces of the great path of humanity from the caverns to the stars.

“After two million years, man has stepped out of this world onto another. And, by incredible fortune, we are alive at the instant he did it.”

— Science News, July 26, 1969

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Science Exploration Films directed by Alejandro Mos Riera, with footage found on the great archive of The Internet, only for educational, informative, historical, cultural, scientific and cinematographic use, not for commercial use.

This film belongs to you, dear audience, belongs to humanity, it is a memory of a milestone in space exploration in a message of peace and harmony.

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Alejandro Mos Riera

Alejandro Mos Riera is a Spanish polymath. Poet, writer, journalist, painter, photographer, musician and filmmaker. http://about.me/mosriera http://riera.info