Since 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.

Customer Rating:
Summary: an amazing experience!
Comment: This is on par with planet earth by BBC. Every part of this 4 disc collection is interesting, and it really opens your eyes to how amazing NASA is.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: historical footage, but only a part is really HD
Comment: 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

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Best documentary set yet on the NASA missions
Comment: 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.

Look, it's old footage. The sound isn't consistent. For audio/videophiles this isn't a test set. But it's a great history of the space program which focuses on the men and women involved, and how each step was painstakingly taken with great daring and risk, but also with courage and purpose and vision. That sounds overly sentimental, but to me it was inspiring as many other NASA docs have not been. And there is considerable footage that I hadn't seen before and most of it is amazing quality.

For anyone who wants a capsule of NASA's history, this one will do it. There are other supplemental sets which focus more on engineering aspects, or give you the complete mission reports, but this is an overview from the crews' perspective without getting into detail too deeply.

It's very well-edited, paced nicely and nothing is repeated or duplicated so no wasted time hearing the same old stuff again from somebody else, which happens in the older series.

I loved it. Right to the top of my faves list, up there with From the Earth To the Moon, in fact they make a nice couple - the dramatic re-enactment mini-series, followed by the real guys talking about what actually happened.

Great work Disco channel. Didn't think you had it in you any more.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: NASA
Comment:
Very historial back ground which is the best. Needs more new event happening today such as the space station and mission to mars.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent selection of highlights with great sequencing
Comment: Although I haven't yet skimmed through the extra footage at all, the content used for the main features was excellent. Sure there are some flaws in the original media that shows through on the conversion but otherwise it's really excellent. What I found interesting was when the original footage changes from film to tape the quality of the images actually goes down so in some ways the original mercury shots of launches and the centre are actually better. This changes back once you get some better shuttle and space station footage.

I couldn't stop watching the series, was done in a couple of nights. It immediately is out on loan to a sequence of friends with Hi-Def. 4 months to completely re-write a mission and add a spacewalk not planned for a year, our projects these days can't agree on a title of the project for 4 months....

Get it!

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