[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

"The Untold Story" - when I heard the narrators' voice my expectations went out the window - "oh no, not him". Since when has the ABC bought garbage from the Discovery channel to supplement its science content?

I'm sorry to say that I was disappointed in this show. It was narrated in the same softly-spoken doom and gloom Discovery Channel-esque style that I dislike "Seconds From Disaster" for, and was aimed at an audience that has otherwise no interest or knowledge in space, and particularly the Apollo era.

The simulated 1202 alarm sound was plain stupid, and really typical of Discovery. Maybe the real tension wasn't enough for the modern audience.

For all the hype in reference to "it can now be told", there was only one thing that was new to me - and that was the fact that Aldrin used a pen to flick a breaker. If you send up people as qualified as the two that went, a busted breaker would be the most trivial of problems. It certainly wouldn't have stopped the PhD engineer that Aldrin was - nor Armstrong.

Skipping off the atmosphere being dangerous? Wow! Who would have thought. I'm happy that the problem was finally able to be told....

There have been far better documentaries - some of them with more substance and less silly drama hype.