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Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration hosts an Apollo 11 mission 50th anniversary celebration featuring a 5:30 p.m. reception, 6:30 p.m. screening of the 2019 film "Apollo 11,"  and an 8 p.m. audience Q&A with Mark Robinson, principal investigator of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, plus members of the NASA LunaH-Map mission team.  

"Apollo 11," released this year, focuses on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, the first spaceflight to land humans on the moon. It is produced and directed by Todd Douglas Miller. In the making of this documentary film, Miller worked with NASA and the National Archives to incorporate unreleased 70 mm footage from the launch and recovery of Apollo 11. The film includes footage of the Launch Complex 39, spectators present for the launch, the launch of the Saturn V rocket, the recovery of astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins and the Apollo 11 command module, and post-mission efforts aboard the USS Hornet.