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From the Earth to the Moon
If you have not seen this, I totally recommend it and have watched it more than ten times over the years... many different ways of looking at the Apollo program... made me want to go out and become a geologist!
I think one of the best episodes is about the wives of the astronauts. It must have been Hell.
And about the Apollo 1 fire. Extraordinary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhZhz...eature=related
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120570/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m2Q1...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0W9bQ2Jg3A
They asked a seamstress how she dealt with the pressure of sewing the spacesuits, and she said "Oh, you just sew it like you were sewing it for your own son..."
If you have not seen this, I totally recommend it and have watched it more than ten times over the years... many different ways of looking at the Apollo program... made me want to go out and become a geologist!
I think one of the best episodes is about the wives of the astronauts. It must have been Hell.
And about the Apollo 1 fire. Extraordinary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhZhz...eature=related
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120570/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m2Q1...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0W9bQ2Jg3A
They asked a seamstress how she dealt with the pressure of sewing the spacesuits, and she said "Oh, you just sew it like you were sewing it for your own son..."