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Title:

When we left Earth [videorecording] : the NASA missions / produced by Dangerous Films Ltd. ; in collaboration with NASA ; series producer, Kate Botting ; series writer, Ed Fields.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

Discovery Communications ;

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

4 videodiscs (ca. 258 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

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

Other Authors:

Botting, Kate.
Fields, Ed.
Sinise, Gary.
Dangerous Films.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Discovery Channel (Firm)
Discovery Communications, Inc.
Image Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

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). Narrator, Gary Sinise.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

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.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)232161899

Locations:

XRPC157 -- Anita Public Library (Anita)

XWPC787 -- Avoca Public Library (Avoca)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

TAPB572 -- Fairfax Public Library (Fairfax)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)