When We Left Earth

[tele7]

Part 1 of 6 starts tonight at 9pm on the Discovery channel. Wish I had an HD TV.

[Mike Teacher]

I was wondering if anyone was gonna post about this series.

Looks awesome.

Says its in HD, but is that on the regular Discovery Channel or Discovery HD, coz I cant find the latter. Is the regular channel also the HD one?? Grrrrrr.

Anyway, in my opinion, this shit rules.

[Brad_Rush]

We left Earth??? When the hell did this happen and why didn't someone tell me?

[tele7]

I was wondering if anyone was gonna post about this series.

Looks awesome.

Says its in HD, but is that on the regular Discovery Channel or Discovery HD, coz I cant find the latter. Is the regular channel also the HD one?? Grrrrrr.

Anyway, in my opinion, this shit rules.

I'm pretty sure the regular DC will be in HD for this series. At least how they've been promoting it. Not 100% sure though.

[docgoblin]

We left Earth??? When the hell did this happen and why didn't someone tell me?

I, for one, am ready... Let me know where to sign up.

I'll be watching!

[tele7]

http://www.moviestamper.com/img/screens/225951ffb668e7807a938981e852eeaacb40fcc9_thumb.jpg We left Earth??? When the hell did this happen and why didn't someone tell me?

[fezident]

I'm watchin' the hell outta this series. This is why Tivo was invented.

[ChrisTheCop]

I was just flippin around, saying nothings on tonight.

Looks like I was wrr---... wrr--

THANKS!

[ChrisTheCop]

Just finished the Mercury chapter.

I really like the presentation. Even though we know mostly how things turn out,
I'm still on the edge of my seat each time they lose radio contact!

On to Gemini.

[Foster]

We left Earth??? When the hell did this happen and why didn't someone tell me?

Come Back! Come Back! You forgot to take me with you!

[dino_electropolis]

Watchin as well.....wish i had HD, but the weed helps.

This stuff is truly amazing....kinda makes you realize how huge of an accomplishment these feats were, and how small we are in the grand scheme of things.....

[OGC]

Come Back! Come Back! You forgot to take me with you!


Did you ever stop to think that they might jave left you behind for a reason ?
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Shit, they left me too.

[Foster]

Did you ever stop to think that they might jave left you behind for a reason ?
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Shit, they left me too.

See....not so funny when it happens to you is it

[ChrisTheCop]

Seeing Chris Kraft's name is kinda funny.

My dad told me I was named after him.
He was watching tv when my mom was pregnant, and he saw the name Chris Kraft
and thought it was the stupidest name he ever heard of.

But he liked it with my last name.

[Sue_Bender]

I'm watching it right now.

Lots of space pictures.

[Chigworthy]

The good old days, when science was seen as a worthwhile investment for reasons that didn't just net a quick profit.

[Bay Ridge Tim]

Lousy-ass Cablevision doesn't have Discovery in HD. Nuts.

[Devo37]

sh!t, i forgot it was on tonight. hopefully they'll re-broadcast it.

[TheGameHHH]

im going against the grain here, this is nowhere near as good as i thought it was going to be.

[Sue_Bender]

im going against the grain here, this is nowhere near as good as i thought it was going to be.


Incorrect.

[TheGameHHH]

Incorrect.

how do u know how good i thought it would be?

[Sue_Bender]

how do u know how good i thought it would be?

Eerie, isn't it?

[TheGameHHH]

Eerie, isn't it?

its really creeping me out, i almost dont want to have thoughts now because then you'll know all of my inner most feelings and emotions.

[Sue_Bender]

its really creeping me out, i almost dont want to have thoughts now because then you'll know all of my inner most feelings and emotions.



Luckily, you're not that interesting. :wink:

[TheGameHHH]

Luckily, you're not that interesting. :wink:

truer words have never been spoken, touche Bender

[Fallon]

Glad I saw this thread, it's on right now.

[Freitag]

I was really digging it. I can't get over how much personality Armstrong is showing in this; everything I've read about him indicates that he was kind of cold.

I'm also really impressed with how nice some of the footage looks, especially the ground and parade footage. Discovery must have gone through great pains to restore and clean it up. It looks like it could have been shot yesterday.

It appears that the next segment is gonna open up on Apollo 1... ugh.

[Mike Teacher]

So far so good, like someone else said, they even got Neil to speak; which isnt 100% unreal, he did narrate/host a series on airplanes or something way back, he can be gotten to, and glad they did.

The NASA story is so weird its surreal, so many opportunities to die spectacularly, and so many did, and its amazing more didnt.

They should have an episode just on how close each of these guys came to dying just during the training, or during a flight. Yes, Apollo 1 happened, but with many if not most missions, there were times that the people on the ground were pretty sure the guy or guys in the capsule were dead men, and not just Apollo 13.

Armstrong?? Came so close to dying so many times before he ever entered the Apollo 11 capsule...

A surreal time in history; the wisps of fate and politics and audacity were just right that we actually did it; I'd say [almost] impossible today given beareaucratic inertia.

The real legacy of all of this? We stopped. People and congress got bored of ging to the moon; even epic mission get boring when the script is essentially the same, so NASA watched in horror as support and $$ disappeared and we got a kinda-sort wannabe space shuttle, an overpriced ISS, and its 40 years now and we not an incher closer to putting anyone on Mars, and havent been back to the moon, at all.

We blew it.

[Freitag]

The real legacy of all of this? We stopped. People and congress got bored of ging to the moon; even epic mission get boring when the script is essentially the same, so NASA watched in horror as support and $$ disappeared and we got a kinda-sort wannabe space shuttle, an overpriced ISS, and its 40 years now and we not an incher closer to putting anyone on Mars, and havent been back to the moon, at all.

We blew it.

...how can you say that with the Orion program gearing up?

[Furtherman]

Come Back! Come Back! You forgot to take me with you!

http://www.patandkat.com/pat/weblog/images/ugly.png

[TooLowBrow]

NASA watched in horror as support and $$ disappeared and we got a kinda-sort wannabe space shuttle, an overpriced ISS, and its 40 years now and we not an incher closer to putting anyone on Mars, and havent been back to the moon, at all.

We blew it.
didnt like google or some other big corporation offer a cash reward for the first non gov't people to get to the moon?
it looks like its time for the corporations to take over even more...

[ChrisTheCop]

Obviously, being an astronaut back then meant doing things that no one had done before, and every new step brought with it a measure of fear and awe.

But when Ed White stepped out of that capsule for the first (US) space walk, my heart took one giant leap into my stomach. Imagine, youre the first guy you know to try this; some guy in russia MAY have done this weeks ago, but you have no way of knowing exactly HOW he did it, or how it felt. Would your apparatus hold you? Would your suit leak? Would space suck you away from your craft? Just knowing how I feel climbing onto a roller coaster, which is done buy hundreds of thousands of people every year, and millions of people before me, these thoughts enter into my head...and if my worst fears come true, I'm on earth with ems and doctors to rescue me....he had one budday with him with limited resources if something went wrong, and thats it.

So far, that scene has stuck with me the most... and ya know what I'm ashamed of?
I recognized most of the astronaut's names, but when they said Ed White, I initially said, "Who?"

[Mike Teacher]

Ed White became a national hero in June 1965. Parades, cover of Life, the whole deal. Coast to Coast Deep Blue Hero.

Alexi Leonov was the first to walk in space but Ed White, got us back in the race with the Russkies with his spectacular walk. Rumour is he was so excited about the walk he only got back in after being ordered in by the NASA people.

And then that fucking Friday in 1967 he climbed into that fucking capsule with Gus and Roger...

Gus is a whole fucking Book on his own. Deke Slayton later all but said it was Gus all the way, if fate hadnt stepped in he woulda been the first to plant a foot on lunar soil. After his Mercury mission almost killed him, Gus was picked to command the first Gemini mission, and the first Apollo, and almost surely would have walked on the moon. First if he and many others at NASA had their say.

Apollo 1 = Not gonna be an easy episode.

Here's a Moonwalker and a wannabe:

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m110/MizzleT/me01.jpg

Poor Buzz obsessed on being the second man to walk rather then being on the First mission to land to the point of alcoholism dipression and divorce. He just wasnt used to being second at anything, none of these guys were. He was a Mig Killer in Korea, then got a Doctorate in Orbital Mechanics from MIT. Called 'Dr. Rendezvous' because he was often faster, and more accurate in his head then the MIT computers.

And, of course, from New Jersey.

Gods do walk this Earth; we just dont realize it.

[underdog]

Just so everyone knows, the 2 hour episodes they air on Sundays are actually 2 episodes. They are airing all 6 episodes over the course of 3 Sundays, in 2 hour episodes. They're also airing them separately, but the two hour format rules.

[ChrisTheCop]

Just so everyone knows, the 2 hour episodes they air on Sundays are actually 2 episodes. They are airing all 6 episodes over the course of 3 Sundays, in 2 hour episodes. They're also airing them separately, but the two hour format rules.

We can land a man on the moon, but we cant watch all 6 eps at once??!!

[PapaBear]

We can land a man on the moon, but we cant watch all 6 eps at once??!!
Sure. Just wait until the last two air, then watch all 6 on demand!

[Mike Teacher]

If my cable provider wont carry Discovery HD like it should, then fuck it...

Its ALL FAKE

[PapaBear]

If my cable provider wont carry Discovery HD like it should, then fuck it...

Its ALL FAKE
Normally I get annoyed when people say it's fake, but since Mike has said it, I'm convinced. Let's give Neil Armstrong a blanket party. I'll bring the soap, and Mike can bring the socks.

[Rube]

HI guys. What you doing?