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Moon Machines

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Robert Seamans (Actor), Bill Stoney (Actor), Christopher Riley (Director), Rated:

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The right tools for the job... The U.S. Moon missions would never have gotten 10 feet off the ground without the pioneering engineers and manufacturers and the amazing machines they created to turn science fiction into history-making headlines. From nuts and bolts to rockets and life support systems, every piece of gear was custom made from scratch to perform cutting-edge scientific tasks while withstanding the violent rigors of space travel. Now here's your chance to climb aboard the capsule, put on a spacesuit and learn the real stories behind the right stuff.

Saturn V: October 4th 1957, and the Russians take a huge leap forward in rocketry when they successfully launch Sputnik 1 - the world's first artificial satellite. Over the coming years the Soviets would continue to astound the world with their space achievements. America needs to respond - and quick! Command Module: We recount the story of the engineers who built the Apollo Command Module, a fully pressurised living space that would need to provide three men with food, water, air, power, communication, navigation and above all protection, to the moon and back.

Navigation: We tell the story of how a group of computer scientists grappled with the challenge of navigation of a round trip to the Moon back in the days when computer code and software hadn't been invented and computing power was a fraction of what it is today.

Lunar Module: The story of the engineers challenged with building what became affectionately called the Lunar Bug. A constant battle to meet the seemingly impossible demands of weight restrictions, the Lunar Module was one of the greatest engineering feats in history.

Suits: To survive outside of a spacecraft, an new space vehicle would be required - the spacesuit. Flexible enough to allow man to function, yet provide protection from the hostility of space. Two unlikely companies from the east coast took the challenge. Lunar Rover: In the final film in the series we reveal the untold story of how a very small group of engineers wont take no for an answer and convinces NASA to build what ultimately became the Lunar Rover. As with all the engineering during the Apollo program, the Lunar Rover - a spacecraft on wheels.

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Actors: Robert Seamans, Bill Stoney, Sonny Morea, Cliff Hess
Directors: Christopher Riley, Nick Davidson
Writers: Sara Kenney
Format: Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
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Studio: Discovery - Gaiam
DVD Release Date: July 7, 2009
Run Time: 265 minutes
Average Customer Review: 135 customer reviews
ASIN: B0026IQTR2
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,229 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2280 in Movies & TV > DVD > Science Fiction
- #3689 in Movies & TV > DVD > Documentary

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David J. Delaurant

Understanding Apollo from the engineering side

June 22, 2009

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To date, this short series is the best work yet produced by the Science Channel.

Unlike most programs dealing with space flight, this series is about engineers rather than astronauts. Seeing the cleverness that went into the different elements of Apollo should make you proud of your species.

The producers interviewed many of the surviving project directors and engineering team leaders, including then-and-now photos, a nice touch! Specific problems and their eventual solutions are described using language suited to a general audience, yet not insulting to their intelligence. Even the musical score is noteworthy.

For me, the episode on the lunar rover is easily worth the cover price by itself, but the lunar suit comes a very close second.

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There are a lot of videos on project Apollo which range from documentary (like Discovery Channel's "When We Left Earth"), historical docu-drama (like HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon"), to the technical, like anything published by Spacecraft Films. Most of these other videos casually brush past the development of the spacecraft involved in the missions, focusing instead on the pilots and ground crews involved with the immediate task of flying these missions ("From the Earth to the Moon" does a fine introductory job at presenting some of the development phases, but docu-dramas are just that: not actual history). But what Science Magazine has done with this DVD set is nothing short of brilliant: to provide the viewer with the technological obstacles required to fulfill project Apollo's mission objectives.

This four hour DVD set is broken down into 45 minute segments, focusing on the development of the Saturn V rocket, the space suit, the lunar roving vehicle, the lunar module, the command/service modules, etc. With each episode, the producers tracked down key personnel who aided in the design, development, and testing of these machines. The interview style of filming is top notch, and reminds me of the quality Ron Howard employed in interviewing the astronauts for the program "In the Shadow of the Moon." Hearing the first-hand account of how many of these marvelous inventions came to life is engaging, and at times, jaw-dropping. I was specifically impressed with the development of the spacesuit, especially the care taken in developing custom-fit gloves for each and every astronaut - gloves which had to allow the astronaut enough dexterity to be able to pick up a dime on a slippery floor, but also remain pressurized within the vacuum of space. The number and variety of space suits that were designed and tested was also new to me. ILC Dover company, who finally won the contract, even sent NASA a film of their test engineer playing football in an Apollo spacesuit prototype!

This DVD is not just interviews with the developers of these machines. The real gem here is the careful selection and presentation of rarely seen testing and development film footage. I was impressed with how much material was dug up for these segments. I also watched the whole video in one sitting the first time through. Very engaging!

If you're looking for an excellent companion to this video in book form, I highly recommend W. David Woods' superb book "How Apollo Flew to the Moon."

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Greg Bass

A great collection of stories, details and first person accounts of the engineering challenges of the Apollo Program

December 25, 2015

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These videos are really fantastic and informative. I was a kid during the space race and know a lot about it but these stories still mentioned things I didn't know. Some have said this is not technical enough, but there is still a lot mentioned (the second Saturn V launch longitudinal oscillation, the two second stage engine shut downs for different reasons etc.) much of the technical details are better obtained in books. These combine an adequate mention and discussion of the major technical challenges (and they are not sugar coated) with discussions given by the actual engineers. Also a plus is a nearly non-stop run of period footage that brings the story home. Having all this collected is a great treasure and very entertaining to anyone interested in the space program, or even engineering in general. It is rather emotional in a few placed and even someone not particularly technically minded will enjoy these.

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E. Augustus

Fantastic

July 5, 2013

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Anyone with even the slightest interest in the space program will be absolutely thrilled by this documentary. I don't think I've ever heard this narrator before and he is simply fantastic. When he starts the show with the opening lines, "In the 1960s, an impossible dream came true, when human beings walked on another world," it gives me goosebumps.

It's amazing to see how many of the people who worked intimately on those devices are still alive, and able to give us a firsthand account at how they did it. Right now, the United States no longer has a way to get a man into space, even low Earth orbit. We have to rely on the Russians to do it for us. That's both pathetic, and somewhat frightening. If you consider the level of technology available to them at the time, it's astonishing that they were able to pull off this miracle.

At the present time, when NASA discusses going back to the moon, it's usually said that it will take somewhere on the order of another decade. Here it is 50 years later, with all the new technology at our fingertips, and we can't figure out a way of repeating their feat without working on it for another 10 years. How is that possible? They started from scratch, and it took them just nine years.

With the exception of Apollo 13, which if anything, was more of a technical challenge than the other trips, they went to the moon nine times (8, 10, and 13 didn't land), landed six times, walked around freely - eventually even having a golf-cart-like device - and then came home safely each and every time. Think about that for a minute. This DVD tells the story of how they did it.

I'm so lucky to have grown-up and able to watch the entire thing. It never once crossed my mind that it was all a put on. The conspiracy theorists, who think that it was all a hoax, should be forced to watch this DVD and realize that we not only went, but as the saying goes, "There's only one thing harder than going to the moon, and that would be faking it."

Buy the DVD, gather your kids and grandchildren around, and shown them what human beings can do if they dedicate themselves to a goal.

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