Heads up: "When We Left Earth" tonight at 9 EDT, Discovery Channel (Boomers, take note!)

[Faygo Kid]

"In celebration of NASA's 50th Anniversary, Discovery Channel has partnered with NASA to produce an epic new series that will explore the missions, the people and the triumphs of space exploration as never before." http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/nasa/programs/programs.html

I like that the musical theme of the series will be Gimme Shelter.

ORDINARY SUPERMAN
Premieres Sunday, June 8 at 9:00 p.m. E/P
NASA selects seven men to become the first astronauts. They're all test pilots, prepared to risk their lives. No one has ever survived a vertical launch on top of a rocket, but it's the only way they know to put an astronaut into earth orbit. The Mercury astronauts and engineers need to figure out how to launch a man into space on top of a converted intercontinental ballistic missile.

FRIENDS AND RIVALS
Premieres Sunday, June 8 at 10:00 p.m. E/P
For Project Gemini, a new generation of astronauts arrive at NASA -- their mission, to test all the procedures required to land men on the moon and bring them safely back to earth. Each Gemini mission launches two men into space, leading to some of NASA's greatest moments -- Ed White's spacewalk, the first orbital rendezvous of Gemini 6 and 7.

Any Boomer worth his/her salt remembers going to the cafeteria with the rest of the school to watch all the space launches of the Mercury program. This should be good.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. We've already got it programmed!

HDTV!

It should indeed be great!

:woohoo:

[Cheap_Trick]

4. Same here

It's recording the entire series. I'll still buy the DVD set when it's available. I LOVE these documentaries about the space program, especially Projects Gemini and Apollo.

[elocs]

2. I sure do remember getting herded into the cafeteria/gyn to watch those early liftoffs

on a single black & white tv. Seems like a lifetime ago.

[annabanana]

3. Me too.

They had the whole school in the gym on folding chairs...

[Oak2004]

5. Lucky you

They didn't do that at my Catholic grammar school.

But during the summer and on weekends, there never was too much space flight for me :)