Realistic insight into NASA employees

I worked Apollo 11. 42 years at JSC. This film gives the most realistic portrait of the spirit of the young employees working the space program I have see in film. Right Stuff and Apollo 13 shows managerial stuff we hardly saw. I could see the film characters show personal characteristics of myself and many other young engineers enjoying their job and scared of messing up. There were plenty of opportunities to mess up.

An interesting sidelight is that the moon TV was really the poor quality shown in the film and on live TV at the time. I participated in a test tracking station flyover of an aircraft carrying the TV broadcast equipment and was somewhat embarrassed that we were going to be flying such junky TV. The TV was not part of the original mission plan; added at the last minute by high official edict to do the best we could with what we had.

No one I know in mission control knew anything about the PKS troubles at the time.