When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions: Difference between revisions

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| caption = DVD/Blu-ray case

|first_aired last_aired = {{StartEnd date|2008|67|813|United States}}

| narrated = [[Gary Sinise]]

| country =[[ United States]]

| num_episodes = 6

| network = [[Discovery Channel]]

| language =[[English language|English]]

| runtime = 6 hours (6 1-hour-long episodes, originally aired as a [[Double feature|double bill]])

The score was composed by [[Richard Blair-Oliphant]] and conducted by [[Benjamin Wallfisch]] ([[Atonement (2007 film)|''Atonement'']] 2007, ''[[The Soloist]]'' 2009). Music and sound were nominated for a 2009 [[News and Documentary Emmy Award]] for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Sound.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://richardblairoliphant.com/when-we-left-earth/|title=When We Left Earth, Composer|date=16 December 2016 |publisher=Richard-Blair Oliphant, Composer|access-date=February 3, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_30th_nominations|title=Nominees For The 30th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards Announced By The National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences|publisher=The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|access-date=March 18, 2018|archive-date=July 5, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705193229/http://emmyonline.com/news_30th_nominations|url-status=dead}}</ref>

| ShortSummary = The third episode details the beginning of the Apollo program, starting with [[Rocket engine test facility|rocket engine testing]] of the [[F-1 (rocket engine)|F-1 engines]], the [[Apollo 1]] disaster, the flights of [[Apollo 8]], [[Apollo 9|9]], and [[Apollo 10|10]], the tense lunar descent of [[Apollo 11]]'s [[Lunar Module Eagle|Lunar Module ''Eagle'']], and the first human footsteps on the lunar surface. Both [[Buzz Aldrin]] and the rarely interviewed [[Neil Armstrong]] appear in the episode, as well as all of the Apollo 8 astronauts, Commander [[James McDivitt|Jim McDivitt]] of Apollo 9, Apollo 10 astronauts [[Eugene Cernan|Gene Cernan]] and [[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]], and [[Flight controller#CapsuleSpacecraft Communicatorcommunicator (CAPCOM)|capsule communicators]] [[Charlie Duke]] and Bruce McCandless II and flight director Gene Kranz.

The astronauts involved with the film believed the high definition version of the footage helped capture what they really saw. Astronaut [[Charlie Duke]] said, "[It] captures what we see and what we felt and what we experienced, the reality, the vividness, the emotional side of it."<ref name="space" /> Cary Darling of ''Herald and Review'' said that the miniseries is less about NASA's setbacks, and more about a "great-to-look-at, old-fashioned hero worship of those who dare to reach for the heavens."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17140165/|newspaper=Herald and Review|date=June 8, 2008|page=31|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=February 3, 2018|last1=Darling|first1=Cary|title='When We Left Earth' traces NASA adventure}}</ref> ''High-Def Digest'' said this documentary was special because of its focus on human elements instead of scientific milestones, but wished it could have focused on efforts by other countries as well.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1564/whenweleftearth.html |title=When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions |last=Staff |date=October 16, 2008 |website=High-Def Digest |publisher=[[Internet Brands]] |access-date=February 20, 2018}}</ref>

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