When We Left Earth (2008)
4h 40m
Running Time
June 8, 2008Release Date
Plot.
Commemorating the space agency's 50th anniversary, follow John Glenn's Mercury mission to orbit the earth, Neil Armstrong's first historic steps on the moon, unprecedented spacewalks to repair the Hubble stories, and more!
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Cast & Crew.
Gene Kranz
Self - Flight Director / Self / Self - Assistant Flight Director
Gary Sinise
Narrator
Jim Lovell
Self / Self - Apollo 13 / Self - Apollo 8
Eugene Cernan
Self / Self - Apollo 10 / Self - Apollo 17
Fred Haise
Himself
Buzz Aldrin
Self / Self - Apollo 11 / Self - Gemini 12
Nick Green
Director
Christopher Kraft
Self / Self - Flight Director / Self - Mission Control
Details.
Wiki.
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (or NASA's Greatest Missions: When We Left Earth in the UK) is a 2008 Discovery Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting American human spaceflight from the first Mercury flights and the Gemini program, to the Apollo program and its Moon missions and landings, to the Space Shuttle missions and the construction of the International Space Station.
The miniseries was created in association with NASA to commemorate the agency's fiftieth anniversary in 2008. It first aired on June 8, and concluded on June 22. Each airing consisted of two hour-long episodes. The miniseries was then released on DVD on July 10, 2008, and released on Blu-ray disc on August 12.