NASA: 50 Years of Space Exploration

This is the second time I’ve written a review about this. A very interesting and informative product. Recommended.

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This is a fantastic documentary about the NASA moon program. All the videos are from NASA's own video records made at the times of these space-flights. It really has the feeling of the REAL THING, and it truly is. NOT just a video made by a 3rd party, this is the REAL DEAL made by the people themselves, some who died in the effort. One of the BEST video collection about the space program that I have ever seen!! (and I have a lot of them!!).

I love the DVD’s but the back of the tin that it came in is all dented. Very aggravating. I got the one in the tin purposely. Now it’s just crap.

Bought this for my soon to be 10 year old grandson who is fascinated with the Apollo 11 mission trip, so thought he would like this. Only saw part of the DVD's with him, but really liked what we saw and he seemed very excited to have it for his birthday.

This DVD set collects a good number of different documentaries. It is a collection of "period pieces" produced during the same time periods as the events they document, just like the "NASA: History of Exploration" DVD set (more on that below). Video and audio quality are as a result poor. However, this series does a good job of summarizing manned space flight from the Mercury missions through the space shuttle and ISS eras. While including some of the exact same documentaries as "NASA: History of Exploration", these are actually in order, making them much easier to follow, and include a better collection "set". There are more Apollo mission episodes in this collection as well, and they are the highlights of this series. The Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy episode is disappointing, with too much time spent on crew bios at the beginning (if this was intended as an homage it could have been done much better). A second poor start is provided by the terrible initial footage of the explosion that even includes what appears to be some VHS tape static between clips. The rest of the episode does a thorough, if quite dry, job of documenting the cause of the explosion. However, the meaning or significance of some of the reported findings is not always immediately apparent. This episode in particular also showcases the lack of modern graphics enhancement that could have made the fuzzy close-up shots of smoke plumes and fire jets much clearer. Overall this is a reasonably good collection spanning most of human space exploration, but I would recommend “When We Left Earth” much more highly, and specifically for the Apollo missions I consider “From the Earth to the Moon” to be the very best.

Was a gift and the grandchildren loved the movie.

This documentary takes you back to the beginning of NASA. It shows all the steps it took to get the moon and back.