The movie has a total of 10 festival screenings ahead of its Oct. 12 general release date. In the meantime, here are eight things you didn’t know about Neil Armstrong’s trip to the moon. But before that, CommunionAldrin, a devout Catholic, wanted to commemorate the moon landing with thanks to God, but NASA was still smarting from an atheist backlash from the previous Christmas, when Apollo 8 astronauts had read from the book of Genesis. In fact, Aldrin took very few images of Armstrong, so most of the photos from the Apollo 11 mission don’t show the first man on the moon. Aldrin lobbied hard to be the first man on the moonHe had an argument — on previous missions, the second-in-command did the spacewalk while the commander stayed inside.

Source: National Post September 10, 2018 13:50 UTC