Discovery Channel - When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions [Complete Series]

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When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions or NASA's Greatest Missions: When We Left Earth in the UK is a Discovery Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting achievements of the United States of America in human space exploration of the past 50 years, spanning from the first Mercury flights through the Gemini program to the Apollo moon landings, the Space Shuttle, and the construction of the International Space Station. It was created in association with NASA to commemorate the agency's fiftieth anniversary in 2008.


Part 1: Ordinary Supermen (2008)
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The first episode of the series documents the start of the Space Race and the flights of the Mercury program, including John Glenn's historic flight Friendship 7 and the potentially fatal problem with the heatshield that occurred during the second orbit.





Part 2: Friends and Rivals (2008)
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The second episode is centered on Project Gemini, the United States's second human spaceflight program. It features the first American extra-vehicular activity (spacewalk) by Gemini 4 astronaut Ed White.
Part 3: Landing the Eagle (2008)
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The third episode details the beginning of the Apollo program, including the tense lunar descent of Apollo 11, and the first humans' footsteps on the lunar surface. Both Buzz Aldrin and the rarely interviewed Neil Armstrong appear in the episode, as well as capsule communicators Charlie Duke and Bruce McCandless II, and flight director Gene Kranz.







Part 4: The Explorers (2008)
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The fourth episode features the five other successful moon landings - Apollos 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17, as well as the "successful failure" of Apollo 13. It also features the space station Skylab.

 






Part 5: The Shuttle (2008)
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The penultimate episode focuses on the flights of the Space Shuttle, beginning with Space Shuttle Columbia's maiden voyage on April 12, 1981 (the twentieth anniversary of the first human spaceflight, Vostok 1). The STS-1 crew, commander John Young, and pilot Bob Crippen, are interviewed. Bruce McCandless's untethered spacewalk - the first in history - is shown digitally remastered in high-definition. The episode also documents the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster that occurred 73 seconds after lift-off on mission STS-51-L, on January 28, 1986, and the subsequent halt of the Space Shuttle program. The episode ends with the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope and the subsequent discovery of its defective mirror.










Part 6: A Home in Space (2008)
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The series' final episode centers on the first refurbishment mission of the Hubble Space Telescope, and launch, assembly, and construction of the International Space Station. Shuttle astronauts Scott Altman and Michael Lopez-Alegria (the US record holder for number and duration of spacewalks), are featured in the episode. The episode also recalls the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster that occurred during re-entry, 16 minutes from landing at the Kennedy Space Center, on mission STS-107, on February 1, 2003.










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