When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions

Name: When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2008-06-08T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 49 min
Rating: 8.3
Cast: Gary Sinise, Eugene Cernan

A miniseries documenting American human spaceflight, spanning from the first Mercury flights through the Gemini program to the Apollo moon landings, the Space Shuttle, and the construction of the International Space Station. It was created in association with NASA to commemorate the agency's fiftieth anniversary in 2008.

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Ended

Original Name

When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions

First Air Date

June 8, 2008

Last Air Date

June 22, 2008

Seasons

Episodes

Language

English

Production Companies

Dangerous Films Discovery

Networks

Discovery

S01E06

Home In Space

One of the most complex instruments ever built, the Hubble Space Telescope is expected to transform our understanding of the Universe. But once it is in orbit NASA discovers a serious problem, a defective main mirror. NASA sends a team of astronauts to fix the problem in its greatest and highest profile mission since the Apollo era. It gives NASA the confidence to begin construction on the International Space Station.

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