When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions
Narrated by award-winning actor Gary Sinise, WHEN WE LEFT EARTH is the incredible story of humankind's greatest adventure, as it happened, told by the people who were there. From the early quest of the Mercury program to put a man in space, to the historic moon landings, through the Soyuz link-up and the first un-tethered space walk by Bruce McCandless, this is how th... Read all
Genre: Documentary, History
Cast:Gene Kranz , Gary Sinise , Jim Lovell , Eugene Cernan , Buzz Aldrin , Christopher Kraft , Neil Armstrong , Frank Borman , Jay Barbree , Charles Duke , Bruce McCandless II , John Young , Jim McDivitt , Story Musgrave , Jeffrey Hoffman , Glynn Lunney , Ed Weiler , Bill Anders
S1.E1 ∙ Mercury: Ordinary Supermen
When We Left Earth examines the history of American spaceflight starting with the X-15 rocket plane and the Mercury program.
S1.E2 ∙ Friends and Rivals
When We Left the Earth examines the Gemini program and how it prepared the space program for the landing on the moon.
S1.E3 ∙ Landing the Eagle
When We Left the Earth chronicles the Apollo program up until the historic Apollo 11 landing on the moon.
S1.E4 ∙ The Explorers
When we left the Earth examines the Apollo mission after Apollo 11. It gives a special look at Apollo 13, Apollo 15, and Skylab.
S1.E5 ∙ The Shuttle
When We Left Earth examines the Space Shuttle Program. It focuses on the first flight of the Columbia, the Challenger disaster, and the launch of the Hubble Space telescope.
S1.E6 ∙ Home in Space
When We Left the Earth examines at the recent shuttle program focusing on the repair of the Hubble Space Telescope, the building of the ISS, and the destruction of the Columbia.
