Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Moon → Earth → Moon orbit → Moon → Earth → Moon → Earth → Earth orbit
The Apollo 11 scenes follow the real July 1969 mission; the Ark's crash year differs between sources and the present-day trips are undated. 1.3 million km in all on the map.
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The Ark crash site, far side of the Moon Moon · date unknown
Sentinel Prime's ship, fleeing Cybertron with the space-bridge pillars, crash-lands; NASA picks it up.
Eight years later
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Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39A Earth · 16 Jul 1969, 13:32 UTC
Kennedy's Moon race is a cover story: Apollo 11 lifts off to investigate the wreck.
Saturn V · 439,057 km · 3 days
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Lunar orbit Moon, orbit · 19 Jul 1969, 17:21 UTC
Lunar orbit insertion behind the Moon; Collins stays in Columbia while Eagle goes down.
Eagle · 27 hours
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Tranquility Base, Mare Tranquillitatis Moon · 20 Jul 1969, 20:17 UTC
Eagle lands; during a few minutes of radio silence Armstrong and Aldrin secretly explore the Ark (the film does not say how far away it lies).
Eagle, then Columbia · 411,717 km · 4 days
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Splashdown, North Pacific Earth · 24 Jul 1969, 16:50 UTC
The crew comes home and the secret is kept for 40 years.
Present day
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The Ark, present day Moon · date unknown
Optimus Prime and Ratchet fly up and bring back the comatose Sentinel Prime and five pillars.
Xantium · 418,700 km
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Back on Earth Earth · date unknown
Optimus revives Sentinel with the Matrix of Leadership, who soon betrays the Autobots.
Later
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Kennedy Space Center Earth · date unknown
Exiled from Earth, the Autobots leave on the Xantium, kept at the space center.
Xantium
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Xantium destroyed in Earth orbit Earth, orbit · date unknown
Starscream blows the ship apart; the Autobots, hidden in a booster stage, secretly stay behind.