When We Left Earth - The NASA Missions (4-Disc Set in Limited Edition Tin)

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Since the dawn of mankind we have stared up at the lights in the sky and wondered... Now join the heroic men and women who have dared the impossible on some of the greatest adventures ever undertaken - the quest to reach out beyond Earth and into the great unknown of space! To celebrate 50 years of incredible achievements the Discovery Channel has partnered with NASA to reveal the epic struggles tragedies and triumphs in a bold chapter of human history. Along with the candid interviews of the people who made it happen hundreds of hours of never-before-seen film footage from the NASA archives - including sequences on board the actual spacecraft in flight - have been carefully restored edited and compiled for this landmark collection.System Requirements:Running Time: 390 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Rating: NR UPC: 014381448221 Manufacturer No: DIS4482DVD

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5 out of 5 stars

Magnificent History July 26, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

Although the discs haven't been released as of this writing, I did watch this documentary in HD when it was broadcast. The astronauts interviewed gave fascinating insights into their individual missions and, in many cases, they were emotionally moving. It's a shame that sit down interviews like this weren't conducted before other astronauts from those early days passed on - like Alan Shepard, Pete Conrad, and Deke Slayton.
The restored NASA film from the missions are beautiful and it's quite a treat to see them again after so many years.
Bravo!

5 out of 5 stars

I have seen the series on Discovery September 3, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

I will definitely purchase the series the day it's released. It is the best series I've seen for NASA and the personal recollections and stories of the astronauts are wonderful. It's a beautifully done series, and I highly recommend it.

5 out of 5 stars

According to the Discovery Channel website September 30, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

The six hour-long episodes include:

ORDINARY SUPERMAN
NASA selects seven men to become the first astronauts. They're all test pilots, prepared to risk their lives. No one has ever survived a vertical launch on top of a rocket, but it's the only way they know to put an astronaut into earth orbit. The Mercury astronauts and engineers need to figure out how to launch a man into space on top of a converted intercontinental ballistic missile.

FRIENDS AND RIVALS
For Project Gemini, a new generation of astronauts arrive at NASA -- their mission, to test all the procedures required to land men on the moon and bring them safely back to earth. Each Gemini mission launches two men into space, leading to some of NASA's greatest moments -- Ed White's spacewalk, the first orbital rendezvous of Gemini 6 and 7.

LANDING THE EAGLE
The Apollo program is set to achieve the ultimate prize of the Space Race, landing men on the moon. But a fire breaks out in the pressurized capsule of Apollo 1, resulting in the deaths of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. But NASA's astronauts and engineers turn tragedy into triumph with the first manned launch of the formidable Saturn V rocket, lifting three astronauts into deep space for the first time. Two missions later and NASA is ready to land men on the moon in the ultimate test of America's spacefaring vision.

THE EXPLORERS
Now that NASA has mastered the lunar round trip, they want to explore more of the moon's mysteries. With Apollo 13, they face their biggest crisis in space -- returning a damaged spacecraft back safely to earth. Undaunted, NASA launches more moon missions and a new lunar rover that allows wide-ranging lunar surface expiditions. Apollo 17 is the longest moon mission and the last time man would set foot on the moon for generations. In a new phase of the space program, NASA converts an unused Saturn V rocket into Skylab, America's first space-station. But by the time it reaches orbit it's badly damaged. For the first time, astronauts will have to work outside the spaceship to save the space-station.

THE SHUTTLE
For its first 20 years, NASA launches capsules carrying a maximum of three people. But new requirements for a bigger cargo bay prompt a breakthrough in spacecraft design. The development of the reusable shuttle leads to a revolutionary approach to space travel, but somebody has to test fly it in space for the first time. That requires a true test pilot, John Young, the man who sat alongside Gus Grissom on the first Gemini flight. NASA's manned programs are again leading the way, but space travel remains as dangerous as ever and tragedy again strikes NASA when the Challenger explodes.

HOME IN SPACE
One of the most complex instruments ever built, the Hubble Space Telescope is expected to transform our understanding of the Universe. But once it is in orbit, NASA discovers a serious problem, a defective main mirror that leaves Hubble short-sighted. NASA sends a team of astronauts to fix the problem, but it won't be easy. It is NASA's greatest and highest profile mission since the Apollo era. It gives NASA the confidence to begin construction on the International Space Station. More astronauts are in space simultaneously than ever before. And despite the tragedy of Columbia, NASA's astronauts are pioneering the way back to the moon, Mars and beyond.

4 out of 5 stars

This is great but. October 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Lots of unseen footage from the NASA archives, however for far more indepth coverage of the early days and how they got there, the one to buy is 'Rocket Science', which is also available only used now.

The major flaw in this series is that they speak nothing of the pioneers of rocketry, i.e. Goddard, Von Braun and Korolyov. Also Gene Cernans' perfect observation to the effect that what a shame it is that he was the last one to be on the moon and that was over 30 years ago.Rocket Science

4 out of 5 stars

Incredible footage, never seen before October 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This version is different than what was on the Discovery Channel. There's more footage, and the missions are often narrated in more detail. This is a must have for every space history buff. There's so much footage I've never seen before. And that doesn't include the hours of NASA films from the era.

There are only two issues I have that keep this from being a five-star review. I'd really give it a 4.5.

1) There's the "Boom de ya da" ad for the Discovery Channel that goes on at the start of every disc you cannot skip.

2) The music, while good, gets repetitive and bombastic after a while.

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