Apollo 11 (film) continue their lead in the Space Race and be the first to put a man on the moon, NASA felt an enormous pressure to push the Apollo Program forward as quickly as possible, though they knew that pushing too hard could lead to the ultimate disaster. This film recreates the tensions that were felt not only by the three astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, but also by their families and by the teams of technicians training to deal with anything that could go wrong. The film was released on Sunday, November 17, 1996 on The Family Channel
Apollo 11 in popular culture season 1 episode "Space Race" of the NBC series "Timeless". In the episode, Lucy, Wyatt, and Rufus travel to the day of the mission on July 20, 1969, to stop Garcia Flynn from interfering with the mission. After Flynn's helper, Anthony Bruhl, launches a modern-day virus against NASA, which prevents the staff from communicating with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, Rufus and Lucy get help from Mathematician Katherine Johnson to stop the virus and Flynn before it is too late. "The Apollo Eleven" is used as the name of a group of astronauts turned superhero in the Astro City comic