The six-episode documentary miniseries Moon Machines profiles the engineering challenges of the Apollo program to land astronauts on the moon. It details the development of key technologies such as the Saturn V rocket, Command Module, Lunar Module, Apollo guidance computer, spacesuits, and Lunar Rover. Featuring interviews with 70 Apollo engineers and archival NASA footage, the series aimed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of NASA and honor the 400,000 people involved in the Apollo program.
The six-episode documentary miniseries Moon Machines profiles the engineering challenges of the Apollo program to land astronauts on the moon. It details the development of key technologies such as the Saturn V rocket, Command Module, Lunar Module, Apollo guidance computer, spacesuits, and Lunar Rover. Featuring interviews with 70 Apollo engineers and archival NASA footage, the series aimed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of NASA and honor the 400,000 people involved in the Apollo program.
The six-episode documentary miniseries Moon Machines profiles the engineering challenges of the Apollo program to land astronauts on the moon. It details the development of key technologies such as the Saturn V rocket, Command Module, Lunar Module, Apollo guidance computer, spacesuits, and Lunar Rover. Featuring interviews with 70 Apollo engineers and archival NASA footage, the series aimed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of NASA and honor the 400,000 people involved in the Apollo program.
Moon Machines in the US and UK is a Science Channel HD documentary miniseries co
nsisting of six episodes documenting the engineering challenges of the Apollo Pr
ogram to land a man on the Moon. It covers everything from the iconic Saturn V t o the Command Module, the Lunar Module, the Space Suits, the Guidance and Contro l Computer, and the Lunar Rover. It was created by the team who made In the Shad ow of the Moon in association with NASA to commemorate the agency's fiftieth ann iversary in 2008. It first aired in June 2008 and was released on DVD a year lat er in June 2009.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Overview 2 Music 3 Episodes 3.1 Part 1: The Saturn V Rocket 3.2 Part 2: The Command Module 3.3 Part 3: The Navigation Computer 3.4 Part 4: The Lunar Module 3.5 Part 5: The Space Suit 3.6 Part 6: The Lunar Rover 4 Awards and nominations 5 References 6 External links Overview[edit] The miniseries features interviews with around 70 of the 400,000 engineers who r eportedly worked on the Apollo program during the 1960s and early 70s. These int erviews are intercut with archive film, sourced by Footagevault from NASA's vari ous film archives stored at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, the Glen n Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio and from the National Archive in Washington . The miniseries is narrated by actor Bill Hope. Music[edit] The score was composed by Philip Sheppard. Episodes[edit] Part 1: The Saturn V Rocket[edit] The first episode of the series documents the creation of the iconic Saturn V ro cket. Part 2: The Command Module[edit] The second episode is centered on the construction of the Apollo Command Module and the setback of the Apollo 1 fire. Part 3: The Navigation Computer[edit] The third episode details the story of MIT's work on the Apollo Guidance Compute r. Part 4: The Lunar Module[edit] The fourth episode features the Grumman project to build mankind's first true sp acecraft - the Lunar Module. Part 5: The Space Suit[edit] The penultimate episode focuses on the teams that created the remarkable Apollo pressure suit. Part 6: The Lunar Rover[edit] The series' final episode centers on the design and perfection of the novel Luna r Roving Vehicle carried to the Moon on the Apollo J-class missions.
Awards and nominations[edit]
Part 2 the story of the Command Module won a Grand REMI from the WorldFest-Houst on International Film Festival in 2009 References[edit] Jump up ^ Moon Machines DVD Set - Amazon.com Store External links[edit] Moon Machines at the Internet Movie Database Categories: SpaceflightDocumentary television filmsFilms about the Apollo progra mScience (TV network) showsDocumentary films about the space program of the Unit ed States2000s American television series2008 American television series debuts2 009 American television series endingsFilms about NASA Navigation menu Not logged inTalkContributionsCreate accountLog inArticleTalkReadEditView histor y Search Go Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Donate to Wikipedia Wikipedia store Interaction Help About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact page Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Wikidata item Cite this page Print/export Create a book Download as PDF Printable version Languages Franais ?????????? Edit links This page was last modified on 16 May 2016, at 04:58. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; add itional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and P rivacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, I nc., a non-profit organization.
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