When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions

  • Premiered: Jun 2008
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 14
  • Ended
  • Discovery
  • Sunday
  • Documentary History Mini-series

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Season 1
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Ordinary Supermen
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Air date
Jun 08, 2008
NASA selects seven men to become the first astronauts. They're all test pilots, prepared to risk their lives. No one has ever survived a vertical launch on top of a rocket, but it's the .. show full overview
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Friends and Rivals
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Air date
Jun 08, 2008
Nine new astronauts arrive at NASA - their mission, to test all the procedures required to land men on the moon and bring them safely back to earth. Each Gemini mission launches two men .. show full overview
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Landing the Eagle
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Jun 15, 2008
The Apollo program is set to achieve the ultimate prize of the Space Race, landing men on the moon. But a fire breaks out in the pressurized capsule of Apollo 1, resulting in the deaths .. show full overview
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The Explorers
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Jun 15, 2008
Apollo 13 puts the astronauts to the ultimate test, returning a damaged spacecraft back safely to earth. Apollo 17 sends man for the longest mission yet to the surface of the moon, but .. show full overview
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The Shuttle
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Jun 22, 2008
For its first 20 years, NASA launches capsules carrying a maximum of three people. But new requirements for a bigger cargo bay prompt a breakthrough in spacecraft design. The development .. show full overview
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Home In Space
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Air date
Jun 22, 2008
One of the most complex instruments ever built, the Hubble Space Telescope is expected to transform our understanding of the Universe. But once it is in orbit NASA discovers a serious .. show full overview

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