From: Los <los@c...>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 00:29:47 -0500
Subject: [OT] From the Earth to the Moon
My wife and I just got done watching this 11 hour HBO movie by Tom Hanks. We'll always remember it fondly as one of the finest viewing experiences we ever shared together. I hope everyone gets a chance to see it.
From: Robertson, Brendan <Brendan.Robertson@d...>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:35:39 +1100
Subject: RE: [OT] From the Earth to the Moon
It's currently on Optus Movie Extra here in Australia, they're showing 26 1 hour episodes on weeknights. Wednesday was the Apollo 15 mission. It's very good viewing, unfortunately, I missed the Apollo 13 episode on Tuesday. Neath Southern Skies - http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/ [mkw] Admiral Peter Rollins; Task Force Zulu [pirates] Prince Rupert Raspberry; Base Commander > -----Original Message-----
From: Keith Watt <kwatt@a...>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 08:15:28 -0500
Subject: RE: [OT] From the Earth to the Moon
> My wife and I just got done watching this 11 hour HBO movie by Tom Let me second this. We don't get HBO, but we bought the DVD set. My wife, thinking it was a documentary, wasn't particularly interested. But after seeing the first episode, she was totally addicted and watched the entire series straight through. Truly an outstanding piece of work!
From: Nyrath the nearly wise <nyrath@c...>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 07:39:28 -0500
Subject: Re: [OT] From the Earth to the Moon
> Los wrote:
From: Los <los@c...>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 10:30:57 -0500
Subject: Re: [OT] From the Earth to the Moon
It's the incredible enormity of complexity and how it is over come. The acceptance and management of chaos theory. How unforeseen porblems are analyzed and solved, some under the pressure of life and death. Of the personal sacrifice made by both the NASA employess and their families. Of gathering a collection of subject matter experts and professionsals together, for which just to be in the presence of them and be considered a peer with them would be a life's honor. My hats off to Hanks for bringing this project to fruition and telling a story in one comprehensive package. My wife actually agreed that we should own the DVD on this one! Goes to show that you don't need aliens and ray guns to make a good space movie. Cheers... Los > Nyrath the nearly wise wrote: > Los wrote:
From: Allan Goodall <agoodall@a...>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 04:05:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [OT] From the Earth to the Moon
> On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 00:29:47 -0500, Los <los@cris.com> wrote: > My wife and I just got done watching this 11 hour HBO movie by Tom It's excellent. I had it recommended, so I bought the DVD package. It's a great overview of the Apollo programme. My favourite episode was, surprisingly, Apollo 12 which was very funny (and starred a fellow Canadian Dave Foley as Alan Bean! *S*). My other favourites were "Spider" (building the LEM and covering Apollos 9 and 10), the episode on the archaeologist (Apollo 15), Apollo 11's episode, and the really cool final episode! The whole series was put together well. The Apollo 13 episode was interesting, as the Tom Hanks movie pretty much covered it... so they found a different way of looking at it. The take on the astronaut's wives was fascinating. Man, I've got episodes running through my head now! *L* Better start watching it again...