Product Details

• Actors: Eagle Has Landed
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Columbia River Ent.
• DVD Release Date: July 10, 2007
• Run Time: 346 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000RPHDTY
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #110,521 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Giant Leaps, March 24, 2008

By	Ursus Somnolicus (Bearizona, USA) - See all my reviews

This two DVD set of NASA documentaries focuses on the Project Apollo missions of the late 1960s and early 1970s. This box set combines Moon Race - The History of the Apollo, Vol. 1: The Eagle Has Landed - Apollo4-Apollo11 and Moon Race - The History of the Apollo, Vol. 2: Houston, We Have a Problem - Apollo 12-Soyuz at a price (when this was written) only $1 more than the price of either DVD alone! This is a terrific bargain for anyone interested in space exploration.

Disc 1: Moon Race - The History of the Apollo, Volume 1: The Eagle Has Landed
* The Time of Apollo (Project Apollo overview)
* Apollo 4 (unmanned launch of the gigantic Saturn V rocket)
* Apollo 5 (unmanned launch into earth orbit and flight test of the lunar module)
* Apollo 8: Go for TLI (first manned lunar orbit)
* Apollo 9: Three to Make Ready (first manned test flight of the lunar module)
* Apollo 10: Green Light for Lunar Landing (lunar orbit and test of the operations required for lunar landing)
* Apollo 11: The Eagle Has Landed (first manned lunar landing and exploration)

Disc 2: Moon Race - The History of the Apollo, Volume 2: Houston, We Have a Problem
* Apollo 12: Pinpoint for Science (second lunar landing finds a previously launched unmanned probe)
* Houston, We Have a Problem (Apollo 13's mission of exploration becomes a struggle for survival)
* Apollo 14: Mission to Fra Mauro (lunar landing searches for the oldest rocks ever found)
* Apollo 15: In the Mountains of the Moon (lunar exploration extends its reach using the lunar rover)
* Apollo 16: Nothing So Hidden (an exploration of the lunar highlands)
* On the Shoulders of Giants (Apollo 17, the last and longest lunar landing, brings the first scientist to the moon)
* The Mission of Apollo - Soyuz

This set provides a splendid overview of Project Apollo. It was nice to see the films of the unmanned flight tests. I haven't found these in other collections. (Perhaps documentary films were never made for the other unmanned test flights: Apollo 2 and 3 tested the Saturn IB rocket and Apollo 6, like Apollo 4, tested the Saturn V.)

One glaring omission is the first manned Apollo space flight, Apollo 7. I can't imagine why it was left out. But most of all, any history of the Apollo era is incomplete without discussion of the tragic loss of the Apollo 1 crew in a launch pad fire, and the effect that accident had on the space program.

So while there is room for improvement here, this collection of public domain video preserves the view NASA had of its work at the time. This view of history-in-the-making can often be more revealing than a slickly-produced retrospective.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good history of Apollo space program, October 24, 2008

By	E. Torbert (GA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Good coverage of Apollo space program from preliminary flights through actual landings. Videography is not up to today's standards, but then it is what was available when it was happening.

3.0 out of 5 stars next pressing should have better quality control, October 14, 2009

By	bubicus (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

The story itself was told well. I was surprised they glossed over the Apollo 1 disaster and how it delayed the program, but it was otherwise ok.

The video could have been cleaned up, but I wasn't expecting much at this price. They could stand to do some video processing, though. There's a lot of dirt on the films that could be digitally removed.

However, I have a serious beef with the DVD. I tried watching it on three different devices with different sound systems, and on each of them (so I know it wasn't my sound setup) there was terrible reverb on the sound track for the chapter "The Time of Apollo". It was terribly annoying, but thankfully it ended once the "Apollo 4" chapter started. DVDs should NOT ship with such a defect! I basically can't watch that chapter because the reverb drives me batty. It's like the old Stan Freberg skit where Elvis can't turn off his reverb machine, except it's 27 minutes long... AAAARGH!!!