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MauritiusToday.com - Shopping Mall - When We Left Earth - The NASA Missions (4-Disc Set in Limited Edition Tin)
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List Price: $49.98
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Manufacturer: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Starring: When We Left Earth
Directed By: na
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381448221
Format: AC-3
Label: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Manufacturer: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-09-30
Running Time: 258
Studio: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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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.
*Packaged in spectacular, limited-edition tin.
*Original NASA footage digitally remastered in high-definition featuring exclusive ''never before seen'' footage
*4 hours of bonus footage not seen in TV broadcast.
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Summary: Out of this world!!
Comment: Please forgive the tacky title - but I couldn't resist it. The 4 disc set is pretty bloomin' brilliant - cleaned up pictures and sound mean that this (along with "in the shadow of the moon")has the best images you are going to see this side of Spacecraft films exhaustive (and relatively expensive)collections.
It doesn't just focus on one aspect but covers all of NASA's manned programs.
Extra interviews with various astronauts (including Neil Armstrong and John Young) and a fair range of extras mean that this is a top notch set and is ideal for a newbie or someone with an active interest in the space program.
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Summary: When we left Earth - the NASA Missions
Comment: Not to be missed for those who were too young to remember the race to the Moon or for those who wish to recall the great memories.
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Summary: Terrific documentary on four discs covering the entire history of the Space Program--good and bad
Comment: An exceptional look at the space race and beyond, "When We Left Earth" provides us with a glimpse of the stars as seen from the astronauts, engineers and those that helped create the massive space craft that put us up there. Extremely well made, "When We Left Earth" covers everything from the early Mercury missions, the snafus that we ran into along the way and the tragedies that also occurred along with the triumphs. What's surprising is that the documentary is fair balanced pointing out when NASA failed or in the case of Challenger that there were known problems with O ring that they were advised against the launch.
The images are often stunning--images of space and much footage that hasn't been seen before in addition to the popular footage of the moon landings, etc. that we've seen. The extras are quite good with a documentary on "Friendship 7" and John Glenn's historic flight. We also get featurettes on Skylab, the Gemini missions (including an excerpt from a NASA feature film on the Gemini missions)and interviews.
THis is a terrific set for anybody interested in the history of space flight or even someone who wants to find out about when humanity first stretched its wings and looked beyond the blue sky of our atmosphere.
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Summary: Incredible footage, never seen before
Comment: 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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Summary: This is great but.
Comment: 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
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