Review: When We Left Earth
Penguin June 30th, 2008
Rating: 4/4 stars
When We Left Earth documents 50 years of NASA’s manned missions. It starts with Mercury and ends with the International Space Station.
It’s an amazing story that we take for granted. The images that they returned, specifically of Earth Rise are tremendous and life changing. The human will and ingenuity to achieve such an enormously difficult task is awe inspiring.
What makes the series so good is that even though we know the ending, they still manage to weave a tail full of tension and suspense. This is achieved through masterful narration by Gary Sinise, a terrific soundtrack, and fantastic editing of archival footage with new interviews with the astronauts.
The images are beautiful in HD and gave me that sense of wonder of space all over again.
Watch it.
-Penguin
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