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re: "When We Left Earth", Discovery Channel Series

While I thought it was great and I enjoyed it immensely I do have a few of criticisms. I agree that there was very little footage there that I have not seen before. I would guess not more than a couple of minutes if that. They also gave in to the same old laziness that many others have done, namely using shots of, say, a Saturn five lifting off and showing other shots of other rockets in quick cuts as it climbed to orbit. Shots of a Gemini lifting off then an interior shot out the window of the craft as it was reentering implying it was a shot during the launch. Too lazy to show it accurately. The usual “a rocket is a rocket the audience won’t know, or care which rocket it is”. Probably true, but the main audience for this show is made up of people like us who would know and care.

Never the less I will be watching every second of the rest of the shows.

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