Obsessed with NASA-Help?

[djsb]

I'm becoming obsessed with NASA and it's shenanigans, Please help
Just spent a sunny afternoon indoors watching this



That got me curious about actual apollo 11 film footage (can't believe most of the original it was wiped/lost).
and found this

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/video11.html

I can't remember much now about watching the moon landings when I was 8 years old on TV during my summer school holidays. Must have seemed boring or maybe I felt overwhelmed by what I was seeing. I remember all the beeping as mission control spoke to the crew. I remember staying up into the night (which was a privilige for an 8 year old).
But from an emotional point of veiw I can't look at photo's of the Earth from space without wanting to cry. I get tears in my eyes every time I see it.
I'm only now beginning to take it what they actually achieved back then. It's beyond words.

[bullet308]

The Dark Side is beckoning...

[johnboxall]

For a counter-point, find a copy of "Capricorn One".

[bullet308]

I saw that in the theater...an exercise in cinematic mediocrity. 

[TerminalJack505]

Anyone seen the HBO mini series "From the Earth to the Moon"?  Is it worth picking-up a copy?

I haven't seen it but it looks like they deal with a lot of the engineering aspects of the Apollo program.

[westfw]

If "From the Earth to the Moon" is the show I'm remembering, it was very good.

[saturation]

Yes, the documentary too, "For All Mankind" is a condensed documentary version of details dramatized in "Earth to the Moon".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_%28TV_miniseries%29

The best on film are here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Depictions_on_film

The two above I think, are the best of the group.

Anyone seen the HBO mini series "From the Earth to the Moon"?  Is it worth picking-up a copy?

I haven't seen it but it looks like they deal with a lot of the engineering aspects of the Apollo program.

[FenderBender]

I'm becoming obsessed with NASA and it's shenanigans, Please help

Ah at least someone is benefiting from my tax dollars!