Summaries

Narrated by Gary Sinise, this HD series chronicles the space age from Mercury missions to moon landings, Soyuz link-ups, and untethered spacewalks through astronauts' own footage, capturing humankind's greatest adventure.

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 the space age came of age. The vivid HD series features vintage rushes and all the key onboards filmed by the astronauts themselves. The sequences are captured by cameras onboard the spaceships, enabling the series to tell the stories in a depth never seen before.—Official Site

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Keywords
  • nasa
  • spaceflight
  • history documentary
  • national aeronautics and space administration
  • science and technology documentary
Genres
  • History
  • Documentary
Release date Jun 7, 2008
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) TV-G
Countries of origin United States United Kingdom
Language English
Production companies Discovery Channel Dangerous Films

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Runtime 48m
Color Color
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