In the Shadow of the Moon: I watched this movie last weekend and I have to say:  it was good.  Lifechanging, probably not but definitely worth watching.

If you’re looking for something to add to your movies to watch list, I definitely suggest you add this one.  Of course, I have an entire section in my to-do matrix for movies that I want to watch — but I’m kind of an organized dork that way so forgive me.

But, back to my recommendation, from Amazon’s product description — In the Shadow of the Moon is an intimate epic, which vividly communicates the daring and the danger, the pride and the passion, of this extraordinary era in American history. Between 1968 and 1972, the world watched in awe each time an American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon. Only 12 American men walked upon its surface and they remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. Now for the first, and very possibly the last, time, IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON combines archival material from the original NASA film footage, much of it never before seen, with interviews with the surviving astronauts, including Jim Lovell (Apollo 8 and 13), Dave Scott (Apollo 9 and 15), John Young (Apollo 10 and 16), Gene Cernan (Apollo 10 and 17), Mike Collins (Apollo 11), Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11), Alan Bean (Apollo 12), Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14), Charlie Duke (Apollo 16) and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17). The astronauts emerge as eloquent, witty, emotional and very human.

I will probably get it again so I can watch it with Rider since he’s so fascinated with outer space.  I would enjoy watching it again and I think he’d enjoy it too.  A lot will go over his head but there’s enough in there to keep his attention (and probably get him back completely fascinated with outer space).