Earlier this week, I went to a screening of Discovery’s When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions, a six-part HD history lesson on our space program with never-before-seen, remastered footage that premieres June 8. Amazing. The kind of amazing that makes your mouth drop open and your head turn to the person sitting next to you to make sure that they’re seeing what you’re seeing.
Here are three reasons, from episode 2’s Gemini missions, why you need to tune in…
(1) The first American spacewalk: Gemini IV astronaut Ed White (below) steps outside the capsule and flies at 17,000 mph, 200 miles above the Earth, for 36 minutes. He "didn’t hear" the commands to come inside sooner.
(2) Rendezvous: To test pilotability, essential for a lunar landing, two spacecrafts, Gemini VI and Gemini VII (below), find each other in orbit and fly in tight formation, as close as six inches, for 270 minutes. The astronauts see each other through their windows. And wave.
(3) Learning to work in, and with, zero gravity: How hard is it to maneuver when weightless? Gemini IX’s Gene Cernan finds out when his heart rate rises to 170 bpm as he crawls, hand over hand, to the back of his capsule. After finally strapping in to the jet pack waiting there for him, he’s too tired to fly it. Gemini XII’s Buzz Aldrin (below) trains for his mission underwater to simulate a zero-gravity environment, and becomes the first astronaut to complete the simple tasks that NASA has designed to test man’s performance in space. He makes three trips outside the hatch, spends more than five hours walking in space, and never breaks a sweat.
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Now I know what I’m getting for hubby’s b-day!
Space shows are okay, but can’t compare to those badazzes who go crab fishing in Alaska. Them dudes totally changed my appreciation for that field of work.
I already wanted to be an astronaut, but now, I want to fish for King crab in some big boat off Dutch Harbor…
I’m a total space nerd, so I’ll definitely be watching this. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid, but then I discovered that I hate flying, so that wouldn’t work.
From the Earth to the Moon was my second favorite mini-series of all time (after Roots), so I’m THERE! Thanks for the heads up.
The preview they had for this before Indy last night made me REALLY wish I could watch the whole thing on a big movie screen. That being said, I will be waching on my little monitor at home – it looks fascinating.
Don’t miss the final two episodes of the Discovery Channel series When We Left Earth this Sunday, June 22, at 9PM! For the space program’s 50th anniversary, NASA has unlocked it’s vaults to reveal mission and training footage completely restored and remastered for this limited HD television experience. For more info, visit:
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/nasa/nasa.html
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