Product DescriptionSince 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.
*Original NASA footage digitally remastered in high-definition featuring exclusive;''never before seen''; footage *4 hours of bonus footage not seen in TV broadcast.
What Others Say
Geat NASA documentry
This is a great NASA documentry. Some of the footage was totally new, and the fact that it was in HiDef made it all the better. Even the old footage looked better, and of course the newer footage was amazing.
Complete
Great video and great interviews. The interviews provide a lot of background for those TV images that we all saw.
historical footage, but only a part is really HD
The availability of so many footages in a package makes this edition a "must have" . However, the edition does not really take advantage of the blu ray format. Too many files are simply pasted on the disc, and frankly enough, there is no bonus havio=ng a Blu ray vs. a DVD, or in some cases a VHS. Only the last shutle missions are to what looks HD standard, and are really up to what one can expect in such a format. Digital restoration /interpolation is what I expected and I was therefore very disappointed. On the other hand , it is still worth having so much in such a small volume. Buy it, but do not expect too much HQ from the first 3 discs
Best documentary set yet on the NASA missions
Of all the DVD sets out there documenting the history of NASA, I think this one is the best of them (and I've seen them all, I think.)
Firstly, the interviews with the surviving astronauts are wonderful. All of them are human, funny, honest, interesting and have new things to say. Neil Armstrong showing us his dry wit and faux-melodrama recapping was a highlight. How amazing that the doco team was able to bring out that side of his personality we've not seen before from a very shy and introspective man.
Other talking heads are of similar quality, Kranz, Borman especially. The conflict between Kraft and Carpenter is not sugar-coated either. You get both sides and make your own mind up.
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