Narrated by award-winning actor Gary Sinise, WHEN WE LEFT EARTH is the incredible story of humankind's greatest adventure, as it happened, told by the people who were there. From the early ...
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When We Left the Earth chronicles the Apollo program up until the historic Apollo 11 landing on the moon.
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When We Left Earth examines the history of American spaceflight starting with the X-15 rocket plane and the Mercury program.
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Narrated by award-winning actor Gary Sinise, WHEN WE LEFT EARTH is the incredible story of humankind's greatest adventure, as it happened, told by the people who were there. From the early quest of the Mercury program to put a man in space, to the historic moon landings, through the Soyuz link-up and the first un-tethered space walk by Bruce McCandless, this is how the space age came of age. The vivid HD series features vintage rushes and all the key onboards filmed by the astronauts themselves. The sequences are captured by cameras onboard the spaceships, enabling the series to tell the stories in a depth never seen before. Written by Official Site
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This documentary provides an enjoyable narrative of various NASA missions from the late 1950s up to the early 2000s. It doesn't go into much depth about how the technology involved in the missions worked as its core focus is on the humans who went on each respective mission and many of those on the ground who made it possible. Overall it is a quite basic yet thoroughly enjoyable documentary on the subject, just don't expect to receive to much information about how the science behind it all works.