When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions

When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions

2008 · 1 season · 6 eps · ★ 8.4 · Documentary

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A miniseries documenting American human spaceflight, spanning from the first Mercury flights through the Gemini program to the Apollo moon landings, the Space Shuttle, and the construction of the International Space Station. It was created in association with NASA to commemorate the agency's fiftieth anniversary in 2008.

Network: Discovery

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Gary Sinise Self - Narrator
Eugene Cernan Self

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