Moon Machines, Season 1

Moon Machines, Season 1

Moon Machines

  • Genre: Nonfiction
  • Release Date: 2008-07-06
  • Advisory Rating: TV-PG
  • Episodes: 6
  • iTunes Price: USD 7.99
  • iTunes HD Price: USD 8.99
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Description

Forty years after man's first steps on the lunar surface, reaching the Moon is still a metaphor for an impossible journey. But while the astronauts who walked on the Moon became household names, the creators of the machines that made those journeys possible have been largely forgotten. Yet, from the impossibly gigantic Saturn V rocket to the fragile “tissue paper” lunar lander, the stories of these miracles of engineering are every bit as extraordinary as those of the men who flew them.

Episodes

Title Time Price
1 Saturn V 44:39 USD 1.99 Buy on iTunes
2 Command Module 44:36 USD 1.99 Buy on iTunes
3 Navigation 44:37 USD 1.99 Buy on iTunes
4 Lunar Module 44:44 USD 1.99 Buy on iTunes
5 Spacesuits 44:38 USD 1.99 Buy on iTunes
6 Lunar Rover 44:40 USD 1.99 Buy on iTunes

Reviews

  • Worth every minute and penny

    5
    By WerdNurd I Am
    What a find! A brilliant documentary worthy of the subject. Watch this and be inspired to do great things.
  • 5 star Show, Disappointed at low resolution only... I want HD!

    5
    By Hawk wind
    5 star Show, Disappointed at low resolution only... I want HD! Please.
  • Not enough detail

    4
    By Goosinburner
    This program is good, but with an hour more on the Saturn V for instance much more interesting detail could have been included. In talking about the barrier material between the hydrogen and oxygen tanks in the second stage the name of the material and it's structure was never given. More expanation about how the modified injector in the first statge F-1 engines fixed the combustion instability would have been great.
  • Superb

    5
    By BrooklynHasTrees
    "Moon Machines" is a level above typical science tv programming. The narration is excellent (both the actor reading it and the text itself), and detailed; the footage is not boilerplate Apollo film, there are lots of testing and behind-the-scenes stuff; the music by Philip Sheppard is incredible. The interviews have real emotion in them. All around excellent and recommended.
  • Didn't live up to its title

    2
    By Apollo nut
    Too heavy in interviews and emotion. I wanted to see more footage relevant to the eng'g aspects for each subsystem rather than watching interviews on how nobody was able to make it home for dinner. In fact, if you watch "Saturn V" there is an error: The narrator went right to Apollo 8 and skipped the very important Apollo 7 mission whch was the 1st to carry humans into space for Apollo. A better choice is "To the Moon" but for 10 bucks, Ill take the season.
  • A fresh look into the Space Race!

    5
    By speaksoftly77
    I was a child of the 70's and I grew up in the afterglow of the Apollo missions and the dawn of the Space Shuttle Era. Needless to say I loved to learn all I could about space exploration from television and print media. Moon Machines was the first television series in a LONG time that was able to tell me more than I already knew about the Apollo era. This series gives a fresh look into the technology that had to be conceived and developed to "land a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth."
  • Terrific; enjoyable and informative.

    5
    By KarlB
    Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins once referred to himself and his fellow Apollo astronauts as "like the periscope of a submarine" -- the one visible part of a huge structure. This wonderful series is about the rest of the submarine -- the hundreds of thousands of engineers, technicians, managers and laborers who made the amazing achievement of the Apollo moon missions possible. I hesitate to call these people the "real heros" of Apollo, but they're certainly the heros that most of us can more easily identify with. Not gung-ho daredevil test pilots, nor even over-achieving Ph.D. scientist-astronauts, but just regular folk who were given an incredible job to do and did that job incredibly well. Some of these people came from unexpected quarters. The primary contractor for the spacesuits used on the moon was Playtex, of bra and girdle fame. Surfboard manufacturers were called in to apply their expertise with plastics to molding the honeycomb insulation used for fuel tanks. This is a great series, extremely enjoyable and informative.
  • Fly Me to the Moon

    5
    By Ryakkan
    I'm impressed that seemingly difficult and complicated concepts such as Inertial Guidance Systems can be explained in such a way that make that interesting. Or how a mutli-staged rocket worked so well to send 3 men, a quarter-million miles from the earth to the moon. We've seen the Astronauts talk about going into space, but what about the other engineers, scientists that made the machines that got us to the moon. This series does a fantastic job of explaining how the machines that got us to the moon worked.
  • Really good.

    5
    By WokaWokaWoka
    Great archival footage & interviews captures the drama of the Space Race era.
  • Great stuff for space geeks

    4
    By AJ Genard
    This mini-series is excellent for the serious space enthusiast. It's the only one of it's kind. It forgoes the conventional space race documentary and delves into the backstory of exactly how we made it to the moon. Fascinating "inside baseball" for the space buff.

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