Michael is not the only film in a theater right now featuring moonwalking – at least for those in reach of the London Science Museum.

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The recent success of Project Hail Mary showed that space epics and IMAX 70mm make for perfect partners. Following on from this, and in honor of the recent Artemis II moon mission, the London Science Museum is now showing the acclaimed documentary Apollo 11: First Steps on its Ronson theater IMAX screen.

First released in 2019, the documentary features footage assembled from archival footage of the historic 1969 mission to the moon, which, before this film, had not been seen since it was recorded.

Much of the footage was captured on 70mm film, offering a quality level much higher than conventional 35mm film, and includes the iconic shots of the Saturn V clearing the tower and the massive crowds at Cape Kennedy. The astronauts themselves also had 70mm stills cameras, based on a heavily modified Hasselblad 500EL.

This makes it ideal for conversion to IMAX film. Though the runtime of this version is just 48 minutes compared to the 93 minutes of the regular version, even abridged, the documentary should make for a cinematic experience that would be worth making the trek to central London worthwhile.

Speaking of a trek, the Science Museum is also in the midst of its Star Trek 60 season, showing all of the classic science fiction movies in IMAX.

As the Apollo 11: First Steps IMAX documentary is relatively short, you will at least have time to take in the museum’s Artemis II Moon Mission and Destination Space exhibitions. In addition, immediately next to the IMAX screen is the museum’s Space gallery, which contains the actual Apollo 10 command module, used in the dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 mission.

Apollo 11: First Steps is now running at the London Science Museum every Wednesday from now until the end of July – and according the film’s website is also currently showing in IMAX at the Copenhagen Planetarium in Denmark and the Auto and Technik Museum in Speyer, Germany.