The programming executives at the Discovery Channel know exactly how to manipulate my Sunday evenings…with the latest mini-series “When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions”.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=R-yBk15FnfU[/youtube]
I noticed two things while watching the first episode:
1. The folks at NASA were unbelievably creative and extraordinarily smart. And the Mercury Seven were (and still are) some of the bravest and truest American heroes ever.
2. Back then, EVERYBODY smoked.
What they (NASA and the first astronauts) accomplished and the speed at which they accomplished it was something I was glad to be reminded of, by watching this mini-series. Today, I think most of us take the space program and NASA for granted.
I have never know a time when humans weren’t ‘in space.’ What a time of glorious imagination it must have been for young and old. And to watch that imagination become reality…that must have been something special.
Useless Trivia: Can you name the narrator of the mini-series (without looking it up)?
Here’s a clip to help you out.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=0Nsifr-1eYU[/youtube]
2 Comments
I was just sure the narrator was Martin Sheen (he does lots of children’s science video narration) But I was wrong……..
Nope not Martin Sheen. I doubt he would narrate something so “Pro-America”