From the Earth to the Moon (1999, VHS)

From the earth to the Moon tells the whole story of America s space program. If a person combined the first couple episodes of Earth to the Moon with Tom Wolfe s The Right Stuff, you would have a brilliant beginning. Next replace the Apollo 13 episode of ETTM with the Hank s movie Apollo 13 and then let the rest speak for itself. That would be the perfect mix. Several of the episodes of ETTM I have watched over and over again. A particular favorite is Spider, which tells the story of the creation of the LEM vehicle by the Grumman Corporation. Matt Craven who was brilliant played the head of...

Space had become somewhat passe'. Then Ron Howard made Apollo 13, Tom Hanks won an Oscar playing the mission's commander Jim Lovell, the movie was a critical and box office success, and a wave of nostalgia made space hot again. His own interest piqued and the iron piping hot, Hanks pitched HBO an idea for a mini-series: a retrospective telling the story of the Apollo missions in a docudrama style, similar to the movie. The idea eventually became the 12-part series, From the Earth to the Moon, based in part on the book, A Man on the Moon. First off, this is a fabulous series. The 12 original..

From Earth to the Moon is a wonderful DVD presentation of the critically acclaimed HBO series, and no collector of space or DVD's should be without it. Chronicling the story of NASA and its challenge of bringing America to the Moon, the story unfolds smoothly, with each mission from the tragic Apollo 1 right through the last moon visit treated as being just as important as Neil Armstrong's first, tentative steps on our sister world. The DVD presentation is very well done, supporting Dolby 5.1 - though there isn't a lot of rear channel effects - each rocket launch is glorious, with deep...

When HBO first ran commercials and previews for From the Earth to the Moon in late 1997 (Christmas) I knew I would be watching that spring when it began. I must confess, I am a NASA junkie - I go to the website often and I love to read/see just about everything I can concerning NASA and space exploration. I already was a fan of other "space race" films Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff (a favorite from my childhood) and this miniseries would be as good things could get for me. Episodes From the Earth to the Moon was spread out in 12 separate Episodes covering the whole of the Apollo program which.