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• Actors: Barry Corbin, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton
• Directors: Kirk Wolfinger
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 2
• Studio: Turner Home Ent
• VHS Release Date: June 9, 1998
• Run Time: 189 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303126707
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,010 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Astronauts Deke Slayton and Alan Shepherd tell the story of America's race for the moon, utilizing an untapped treasure of NASA tapes, home movies and never-before-seen footage of the Soviet space program.Starring: Deke Slayton, Alan Shepherd

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A definative and entertaining visual history of NASA, May 3, 2001

By	J. Remington "John Remington" (Adams, Oregon USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Using Deke Slayton's homespun (and salty!) language filtered through the earthy voice of Barry Corbin, Moon Shot is the definative history of the NASA Space program.

This documentary uses an ocean of archival footage and stunningly accessible, honest, humourous and illuminative first person narratives of all the key players to tell the complete story from Mercury to Skylab and all the journeys in between. As great as Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff is, Moon Shot is even more complete.

Clocking in at over 3 hours in running time, Moon Shot flies by in a second as it is filled with fascinating insights and visions of the brave men (and the women who supported them) who took us into the final frontier.

The moon landing is one of man's greatest achievements and this inspirational documentary caputures history in a manner befitting a classic epic film. Moon shot is a must see and must own document which stands up beautifully to the many, many times I have viewed and reviewed it.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Tops-Should Be Req'd Viewing for Every School Kid, March 8, 2000

By A Customer

Turner Entertainment has given us two of the best historical gifts ever captured on film: "Gettysburg" and "Moon Shot". I got to see "Moon Shot" on tv and while in DC at the Air & Space Museum saw it for sale and bought it without hesitation.

Growing up, my heroes were all astronauts and they're all in this film which covers the US space program from NASA's birth in 1958 through the Apollo flights. I show portions of this great film to my aerospace history class to show my students what it was like back then since most of them were born after the Space Shuttle program began. I can't wait for my daughter to get a little older so I can let her watch it.

To suplement the film, I highly recommend the book of the same title by Shepard and Slayton. If you still want more, "Deke!" by Slayton, "John Glenn: A Memoir" by Glenn are both great as well. If you are really a space nut, seek out "We Seven" by the original Mercury astronauts and "Footprints" by the Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding spaceflight documentary should be put on a DVD., April 25, 2002

By A Customer

Moonshot is the best NASA documentary ever and gives a thorough,and personal,history of 1960s spaceflight from Mercury to Gemini to the Apollo Moon landings.It is told by the astronauts themselves and features unique footage of President Kennedy visiting the base.It also tells some stories that I had not seen before,such as Coopers emergency landing when systems shut down in his Mercury capsule.The Moonshot documentary gives us our moneys worth by going for 3 hours and 12 minutes of very interesting NASA history.How about a DVD version? This superb documentary deserves one.