For a couple of weeks now, I’ve been slowly going through Discovery Channel’s TV series entitled When We Left Earth: The Nasa Missions, about the early beginnings of NASA and the race for space. I’m finally finished watching all of the episodes (I took my time) and my impression of it all is that it seems like a pretty thorough look at NASA’s struggle and triumphs on the way to the Moon and to the International Space Station. The amount of archive footage alone is more than enough reason to watch this documentary series and it’s pretty awesome to hear the whole story from the mouth of those who actually went up into space.
Nowadays, space travel seems like a pretty standard procedure, but after watching this series, I definitely have a greater appreciation of what it takes to get there and back. NASA really took great risks to further exploration and research, and their spirit of leaping blindly into space travel is worthy of such a beautifully produced documentary TV series.
If you don’t want to get it on Netflix, you can get When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (4-Disc Set)
