Before the end of the last year I went to see a movie made by one of my favourite movie directors, Damien Chazelle. The movie is called First Man and it tells the story of the journey of the first man on the Moon. I am also a bit of a space nerd, so my expectations were sky high. I was happy to find out the movie delivered on its promise.
What I liked about it the most was that it showed the [human] sacrifice that had to be made in order to achieve, what has arguably been one of the biggest achievements of humankind to date. Many lives were ruined [and lost] in the pursuit of greatness and place in the history. Astronauts would compete with each other for the spots on the spaceships in spite of knowing they might not return back to Earth at all. Besides every [technological] achievement there is a price to pay. Some are high, others are higher. This was the golden era of space exploration, the era when the geopolitical tensions around the world were immense.
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