Jud McCranie wrote:

That's what is in the movie, but wasn't the actual possible plan to do
a figure 8 with a Gemini around the moon, launched with a Titan III?

That was one plan, but there also was a Gemini based lander..but not the
way the movie shows it, with a Gemini sitting on a LM descent stage:
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/gemcraft.htm
The crashed Soviet lander in the movie is based on the upper stage of a
Vostok rocket, BTW.

pat