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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
Earth → Moon → Earth
Summer 1969, just before Apollo 11; the secret mission is a boy's daydream and the film never says where it flies from. 837,680 km in all on the map.
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Secret launch Earth · 1969
Fourth-grader Stan from El Lago, near Houston, is launched in a lunar module NASA built too small for adults.
Apollo 10½ · 418,979 km
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The Moon Moon · 1969
Stan secretly becomes the first person to walk on the Moon, ahead of Apollo 11.
Apollo 10½ · 418,700 km
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Back on Earth Earth · 1969
He returns without a hitch and goes back to an ordinary suburban summer.