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Based on Lily Koppel's book, this limited series tells the story of the women who were essential players behind big events in American history. As America's astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, the lives of their young wives were transformed from military spouses to American royalty. As their celebrity rose, and tragedy began to touch their lives, they rallied together.
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1968: in that single year, MLK and RFK were assassinated, Chicago rioted, Nixon triumphed, and Tet exploded. The top music acts were the Beatles, the Doors, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye. Man circled the Moon. From Civil Rights to Vietnam, from rock & roll to rocket science, 1968 stands out as a concentrated dose of everything we think of as the Sixties.
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Between 1968 and 1972, the world watched in awe each time an American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon. Only 12 American men have walked upon its surface and they remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. Now for the first time, a combination of archival material from the original NASA film footage, much of it never before seen and interviews with the surviving astronauts tells the story of the Apollo space program.
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"Experience man's journey to the surface of the moon all over again, with this stellar collection of historical films and profiles of the men and women behind the scenes. It's one of the 20th century's greatest stories, and every moment--rom the early ambitious concepts and Kennedy's bold promise to the incredible 'giant leap for mankind'--s all here. NASA: The Complete Story also takes you through the space program's other great triumphs (and, yes,...
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"Recently declassified documents reveal NASA's ambitious plans of going far beyond the moon were in the works as early as the 1950s -- 'Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970'. Discover the surprising details behind this ground-breaking effort with fascinating insights from the brilliant physicists who were instrumental to deep-space projects that were top secret ... until just recently"--Container.
11) Man on the moon
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Disc 1. This disc covers the pre-launch preparations for the flight and moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. It goes on to cover the subsequent landings on the moon and includes the Apollo 13 rescue and the first launch of the shuttle Columbia. Disc 2. The 40th anniversary edition includes the history of NASA, an introduction to the people who made the Mercury and Apollo programs possible, an inside look at the Apollo mission and an additional...
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Astronauts: Project Mercury, one of America's greatest milestones in the space race, served as the stepping stone for our knowledge of manned space flight. One of the earliest NASA edited films, this film documents the selection of the original 7 astronauts for the famed project. Watch as Slayton, Glenn, Shepard, Schirra, Grissom, Cooper and Carpenter undergo rigorous testing and training, both psychological and physical, to be among the first men...
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