Lunar Landing

From the late 1950s to 1976 the U.S. manned spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant George M. Low. Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency's inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Low's pioneering work paved the way for President Kennedy's decision to make a lunar landing NASA's primary goal in the 1960s. After the tragic 1967 Apollo 1 fire that took the lives of three astronauts and almost crippled the program, Low took charge of the redesign of the Apollo spacecraft, and he helped lead the program from disaster and toward the moon.

Side A) The Lunar Conquest Suite - a five piece suite composed by Teddy Raven (commissioned by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival) that explores the Space Race through orchestration and samples from NASA Archives. It culminates with the Moon Landing in 1969 which is a musically a very fun moment! Side B) Resistance Rising - in a certain way, The Lunar Conquest Suite celebrates elements of US history, specifically our technological advances; but at what cost do we make these "advances"? How does "progress" impact us socially, how does it exacerbate inequalities? How does "progress" affect the climate? Resistance rising strives to answer those questions through music. Deuce Eclipse - vox PC Munoz - Vox Kevin Wong - Synths, Keyboards, Piano, coming up with dope keyboard sounds and ideas.

In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy’s challenge of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Al Reinert’s documentary For All Mankind is the story of the twenty-four men who traveled to the moon, told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences. Forty years after the first moon landing, it remains the most radical, visually dazzling work of cinema yet made about this earthshaking event.