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NASA - 25 Years- The Greatest Show in Space [VHS]

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I purchased this to watch with my kids. It was extremely informative and gives a great overview of the space program. Would highly recommend to everyone!

These videos are much dated and did not appeal to me at all even though I have an engineering background. I only watched two tapes (moon landing and challenger) and couldn't stand it anymore. For the moon landing, the narratives were extremely boring, few and uninformative. The pictures were ok, but not worth much without good narration, I found. Challenger tape was more recent but even more boring. For the first 20 minutes all you see is astronauts dressing up in real-time. Then you see the shuttle take off and explode for 1 minute. The last 40 minutes or so present you with an official investigative report produced by NASA which contains so many details that you are bound to fall asleep.

This volume of work consists of NASA videos produced over the 25-year history of space exploration. They are extremely informative, especially the overview and Challenger tape; however, they are "dated" and may not be appealing to today's younger audience. This is an excellent history of where we have travelled from in the history of manned space flight by the U.S.