阿波罗11号

如果有上帝，那么上帝看到人类造出来的任何称之为高科技的东西，都如同三岁小孩捏的彩泥。以上帝的视角来看，这世上本没有所谓的高科技，一切只不过是不同物质和信息的不同组合方式。但这不关键，谁叫我们沉湎其中，并为之感动。那些突破想象力边界，去创造世界的永无止尽的好奇心；那些勇于承担风险，并愿意孜孜不倦努力奋斗的胆量跟毅力；是人类几十万年来，最宝贵的东西。

有和平的环境，任何人都有机会施展自己的才华，去触碰想象力的边界；认知求真，知行合一。这样的社会，才是有希望的社会。

电影结尾有一段是截取了肯尼迪之前为阿波罗航天计划发表的演讲《We Choose to Go to the Moon》

完整版如下：

President Pitzer, Mr. Vice President, Governor, Congressman Thomas, Senator Wiley, and Congressman Miller, Mr. Webb, Mr. Bell, scientists, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen: I appreciate your president having made me an honorary visiting professor, and I will assure you that my first lecture will be very brief. I am delighted to be here and I'm particularly delighted to be here on this occasion. We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a state noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nation's own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective comprehension. No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50 thousand years of man's recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter. Only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than two years ago. The printing press came this year, and then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power. Newton explored the meaning of gravity. Last month electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available. Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if America's new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight. This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward. So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But this city of Houston, this state of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward—and so will space. William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage. If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space. Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it—we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding. Yet the vows of this Nation can only be fulfilled if we in this Nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first. In short, our leadership in science and industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries, to solve them for the good of all men, and to become the world's leading space-faring nation. We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say that we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours. There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again.But why, some say, the Moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? 演讲现场 We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too. It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the Presidency. In the last 24 hours we have seen facilities now being created for the greatest and most complex exploration in man's history. We have felt the ground shake and the air shattered by the testing of a Saturn C-1 booster rocket, many times as powerful as the Atlas which launched John Glenn, generating power equivalent to 10 thousand automobiles with their accelerators on the floor. We have seen the site where five F-1 rocket engines, each one as powerful as all eight engines of the Saturn combined, will be clustered together to make the advanced Saturn missile, assembled in a new building to be built at Cape Canaveral as tall as a 48 story structure, as wide as a city block, and as long as two lengths of this field. Within these last 19 months at least 45 satellites have circled the earth. Some 40 of them were made in the United States of America and they were far more sophisticated and supplied far more knowledge to the people of the world than those of the Soviet Union. The Mariner spacecraft... (interrupted by applause) the Mariner spacecraft now on its way to Venus is the most intricate instrument in the history of space science. The accuracy of that shot is comparable to firing a missile from Cape Canaveral and dropping it in this stadium between the 40-yard lines. Transit satellites are helping our ships at sea to steer a safer course. Tiros satellites have given us unprecedented warnings of hurricanes and storms, and will do the same for forest fires and icebergs. We have had our failures, but so have others, even if they do not admit them. And they may be less public. To be sure,... (interrupted by applause) to be sure, we are behind, and will be behind for some time in manned flight. But we do not intend to stay behind, and in this decade, we shall make up and move ahead. The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. Technical institutions, such as Rice, will reap the harvest of these gains. And finally, the space effort itself, while still in its infancy, has already created a great number of new companies, and tens of thousands of new jobs. Space and related industries are generating new demands in investment and skilled personnel, and this city and this state, and this region, will share greatly in this growth. What was once the furthest outpost on the old frontier of the West will be the furthest outpost on the new frontier of science and space. Houston, (interrupted by applause) your city of Houston, with its Manned Spacecraft Center, will become the heart of a large scientific and engineering community. During the next 5 years the National Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to double the number of scientists and engineers in this area, to increase its outlays for salaries and expenses to 60 million dollars a year; to invest some 200 million dollars in plant and laboratory facilities; and to direct or contract for new space efforts over 1 billion dollars from this center in this city. To be sure, all this costs us all a good deal of money. This year's space budget is three times what it was in January 1961, and it is greater than the space budget of the previous eight years combined. That budget now stands at 5 billion 400 million dollars a year—a staggering sum, though somewhat less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars every year. Space expenditures will soon rise some more, from 40 cents per person per week to more than 50 cents a week for every man, woman and child in the United States, for we have given this program a high national priority—even though I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us. But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240 thousand miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25 thousand miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun—almost as hot as it is here today—and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out—then we must be bold. I'm the one who is doing all the work, so we just want you to stay cool for a minute. However, I think we're going to do it, and I think that we must pay what needs to be paid. I don't think we ought to waste any money, but I think we ought to do the job. And this will be done in the decade of the Sixties. It may be done while some of you are still here at school at this college and university. It will be done during the terms of office of some of the people who sit here on this platform. But it will be done. And it will be done before the end of this decade. And I am delighted that this university is playing a part in putting a man on the moon as part of a great national effort of the United States of America. Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there." Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked. Thank you.

我认同美国是一个伟大的国家。但同时也不否认美国为世界带来的错误的认识与罪行。 阿姆斯特朗所说的“a little step for me，a giant leap for mankind”，是人类历史上最振奋人心的时刻之一。正如第一架飞机在莱特兄弟的试验下飞行了94米，正如1400英尺的帝国大厦于1931年落成，正如万国博览会上震惊观众的柯尔特左轮，正如迪士尼和百老汇与大众文化的兴起。 与此同时，美国在越南投下的百万吨凝固汽油弹与橙剂，美莱村惨案，也是人类历史上最黑暗的时刻之一。正如科曼奇，支奴干，阿帕奇，纳瓦霍的名字背后的头皮换钱的野蛮西部故事，正如比基尼环礁的“喝彩城堡”，正如“泰勒制”“福特制”等血汗工厂制度的兴起与托拉斯的建立。 在矛盾中前进，我们能学的还有很多。而那个造就了无数美国精神内核，引起民众自豪的时代，也许是美国短短三百年得以凝聚其爱国与民族情怀的原因所在

基本上所有的影像资料和声音资料都是原始真实内容，太惊人了，很多当年胶片拍摄的内容，现在看来真的色彩非常饱满，非常真实，而又有时代感。让观众非常有代入感，好似亲临发射现场，又好似真的就在休斯敦航天中心一样，不时的与宇航员通话。 　　最让人感慨的是，这样的任务真的是，说难听一点，提着脑袋上场干活，危险性可想而知。所有的工作人员的自信，专业，都在对话中体现出来，还有一点就是他们的幽默，不时的还会开开玩笑，在那样高压的情况下可想而知，虽然大家有说笑但是也就是顶多一秒钟而已。 　　现在反过来看看，第一次登月其实挺顺利的，没有碰到很多太大的问题，在之后的若干次航天历程中，有这样那样的事情发生，这第一次登月时，或许上帝也有对人类进行一些庇护和褒奖吧，不敢想如果第一次就遇到严重的问题，那对人类后来的进一步宇宙探索真的会是一个很大的打击。

登月，无疑是二十世纪人类最伟大的创举，也是人类历史上最伟大的集体行动之一。在一个没有电脑、没有手机和互联网的时代，仅凭数千火箭科学家的聪明才智，工程师的实验心血，代表人类最沉着、最冷静、最手脑平衡的三位宇航员的合作，就可以把人类送上几十万公里之外的荒凉星球，并且还能平安地把他们再带回来。这种事情放在二十一世纪生活的我身上，想都不敢想。但是，五十年前的人类就已经完成了，不得不感叹一声，战争真是人类进步的最大动力。

我觉得人类真是可以不用浪费自己的才能在一些平庸的东西上面。比如电影领域，可能90%的东西都是平庸的，不值得花时间去制作或者去看。而这部电影，光是题材就超越了90%的电影。登月是人类的高光时刻。这样的题材，应该怎么拍电影都不会差。电影发掘了海量当年的素材——从未公开发表过的素材。令人惊奇的是，当年的录像录影资料竟然还比较详尽，很多还比较高清。在这些海量原始资料的背后，怎么剪辑，怎么组合就是导演的功力了。幸运的是，导演给我剪出了一部出色的纪录片。

影片从佛罗里达火箭中心的大远景开始。直到进入准备室之前，我都没有太多感觉，和看新闻记录片差不多，因为那些火箭的镜头我们多多少少都已经从电视上熟悉了。而当镜头一摇到正在穿宇航服的阿姆斯特朗等三个宇航员身上，观众一下子就紧张了起来，这紧张恰恰来源于他们的平静，他们一丝不苟的头发，他们沉着的回答；这看起来就像执行一次普通的飞行任务，而不是把人类带上月球。然后是更近距离的上车，离开，开到火箭发射架下，乘电梯直上到100米高的火箭平台，一气呵成，那真实的近距离和真实的噪音让我觉得从来没有离火箭发射那么近过，也让我感觉不需要高科技也能让人有VR的体验，仿佛我就要坐进火箭发射舱里了一般。

影片用屏幕上的时间分秒作线索，告诉我们还有多少时间发射。随着时间的临近，控制中心、海滩上游客、火箭庞大的近距离镜头交替出现，近、远、当事人的视角不断转换，加上轰鸣的有节奏的鼓点，给人一种巨大的紧张和焦虑感。直到火箭点火前的最后几秒，音乐、噪音、对话全部消失，只剩下充斥整个放映厅的鼓点数秒，神来之笔。镜头靠近火箭下方的点火器，那一声声击鼓仿佛敲在观众的头顶上。轰地一声，巨大的火焰升腾起来，人类用自己的力量把这个庞然大物送上了宇宙，这个镜头，看得我热泪盈眶。

音乐和音效在这里无疑是立了大功的；在后面的情节中也是，几乎有了分割故事的功能。这么多海量的素材，如果剪辑不合适的话，很容易让观众觉得是个冗长的科教片；但导演不但承担起了科教的任务，而且还用艺术的方式传递给了观众。除了刚才提到的屏幕上的倒数分秒时间，影片还把每项任务的示意图画了出来，告诉观众他们到底在干什么，因为50年前拍摄的素材并不是为拍电影做准备的，而由于技术限制，很多镜头也无法拍摄。看了这些gif图，我才大概明白登月的步骤，也明白为什么控制室里总是坐着成百上千个科学家。点火、火箭升空、整流罩分离、绕地飞行、登月点火、绕月飞行、登月舱分离、着陆月球、分离月球、与指令仓接轨、绕月飞行、点火回地球、着陆仓分离……基本上就是一个多了很多步的“把大象放进冰箱里”的故事，也是一个让我觉得“怎么可能实现”的故事。然而人类实现了，影片呈现了。正如影片里阿姆斯特朗那句震撼人心的“这是人类的一小步，却是人类的一大步”名言一样，并非他意识的感慨，而是彻彻底底的事实。镜头扫过了那些一看就是顶尖聪明的脸庞、那些难得见到笑容的脸庞，控制室里一排排成百上千的火箭科学家、工程师……他们为这项任务付出的努力，值得为整个人类所铭记。

这部影片让我想起我看过的许许多多与外太空有关的科幻片。《火星救援》、《阿波罗13号》、《星际穿越》……我这才知道，那些科幻的情节并不是空穴来风，也并不都是单纯的想象。甚至即使是想象也没关系，因为人类就是从想象开始创造现实的。那些星辰、那些我们只能仰望的星辰，就是我们永恒的征途，因为只有在这样的征途中，我们才能明白人类的意义。艾德林在返回地球途中的最后一次电视转播中说：“回想过去几天，圣歌中的一节出現在我脑中：‘我觀看你指頭創造的蒼穹和你擺列的月亮星辰，人算什麼，你竟顧念他！’”

回家的途中，明亮的月在夜空中闪耀，端端正正地照在我们的头顶上。观看苍穹和星辰大海，就是我们人类的意义啊。

另：在飞机上看了《登月第一人》，影评点这里。

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在50年后的这一天看了这部纪录片，感觉很有意义。

材料真的非常翔实。剪的很好，只是很想吐槽radio的信号和音质。

没有太多拨人心弦的桥段，只追求史实的复原。若当作电影看颇显冗长，但是纪录片足够好。最后那首音乐出来的时候，让人足以安慰。

虽已过五十年，但有句话说的好。

江山留盛迹，我辈复登临。

向未来进发吧！