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When we Left Earth : the Nasa Missions

DVD - 2008 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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Documentary.
Title and credits from container.
Originally produced for the Discovery Channel in 2008.
Contains 6 episodes from the series.
Special features: Disc 1: NASA film highlights: Four days of Gemini 4; interviews from NASA's archives with Michael Collins, Joe Kosmo; Mercury/Gemini mission clips ; Disc 2: NASA film highlights: Apollo 13; Houston, we've got a problem; interviews from NASA's archives with Al Bean, Gene Krantz; Apollo mission clips ; Disc 3: NASA film highlights: Skylab: the first 40 days; interviews from NASA's archives: Shannon Lucid, James Crocker; Skylab/Shuttle/Hubble mission clips ; Disc 4: Original NASA films include Freedom 7 (May 5, 1961); Friendship 7: John Glenn (February 20, 1962) ; Proud conquest: Gemini 7 & 6 (December 15, 1965); Apollo 8 debrief (December 21, 1968); The flight of Apollo 11 (July 20, 1969).
Disc 1. Episode 1: Ordinary supermen ; Episode 2: Friends and rivals -- Disc 2. Episode 3: Landing the Eagle ; Episode 4: The explorers -- Disc 3. Episode 5: The shuttle ; Episode 6: A home in space -- Disc 4: Original NASA films.
Narrator, Gary Sinise.
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.
DVD, anamorphic widescreen; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, digitally mastered.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

A very good series submitted by andrewa on July 31, 2015, 10:41pm If you are interested in a summary of the US space program this is one of the best comprehensive reviews I have seen.

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LANGUAGE OPTIONS
English dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles.

PUBLISHED
[Chatsworth, CA] : Image Entertainment, c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 4 videodiscs (ca. 258 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Botting, Kate.
Fields, Ed.
Sinise, Gary.
Dangerous Films.
United States.
Discovery Channel (Firm)
Discovery Communications, Inc.
Image Entertainment (Firm)

SUBJECTS
United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- History.
Manned space flight -- History.
Space flight -- History.
Astronauts -- United States.
Outer space -- History. -- United States
Documentary television programs.
Television mini-series.