Moon Machines (2008)
Discovery Channel

Description

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.

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Apollo

Collected reviews and ratings

10 Amazon user reviews

This is stuff you haven't seen on TV or other mass media. Pics, videos and interviews with the scientists, engineers and technicians who designed and built the machines. Behind-the-scenes with the people who made it all work. Highly recommended, especially to the techies.
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9.2 digitallyobsessed.com | Rich Rosell

Fans of the space program will no doubt get all goggly-eyed over these six fascinating documentaries, each focusing on a certain aspect of the development of key components like the lunar module or the space suit. I can only hope that everyone else would feel the same way if they took the time to be amazed.
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9.0 DVD Talk | Casey Burchby

The story of the Space Race of the 1960s and the Apollo missions in particular, have been covered in countless books, feature films, and documentaries. Moon Machines, however, sheds important light on this fascinating topic by focusing on the achievements of the engineering groups that constructed the physical components which made space exploration possible in the first place. Highly Recommended.
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8.5 DVD Verdict | Kent Dixon

Until NASA's Project Constellation program potentially takes men back to the moon in 2020, Moon Machines serves as a proud 40th anniversary testament to the skill and determination of the men and women who brought the moon within reach.
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8.0 UpcomingDiscs.com | William O'Donnell

This is a very nice series for both the well-versed in space travel and the unenlightened. A hearty enough slice of Americana thrown in, since much of this is rooted in Kennedy’s “Go America” style bravado, but not enough to be corny. The respect lies in the work of those who created these brilliant devices with less heroics pinned on those who piloted them or merely talked about them. Granted, the astronauts get their share of respect, but it is all part of a nicely balanced look into the contemporary history of American invention and some of the most fantastic innovations in the history of American space travel.
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