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''When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions'' or ''NASA's Greatest Missions: When We Left Earth'' in the UK is a Discovery Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting American human spaceflight, spanning from the first Mercury flights through the Gemini program to the Apollo moon landings, the Space Shuttle, and the construction of the International Space Station. It was created in association with NASA to commemorate the agency's fiftieth anniversary in 2008. It first aired on June 8, 2008, and concluded on June 22. Each airing consisted of two hour-long episodes. The miniseries was released on DVD on July 10, 2008, and was released on Blu-ray disc on August 12.〔(When We Left Earth, The NASA Missions DVD Set - Discovery Channel Store - B530651 )〕 The third episode, "Landing the Eagle", was re-aired on July 20, 2009 for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.〔(10:00 pm ET - When We Left Earth: 40th Anniversary Special ). Retrieved July 22, 2009.〕 It featured improved images from the moonwalk. ==Overview== The miniseries features interviews from Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle astronauts including John Glenn and Neil Armstrong, as well as NASA officials including flight directors Chris Kraft, Gene Kranz, and Glynn Lunney, former president George H. W. Bush and long-time NBC space journalist Jay Barbree. The series is narrated by actor Gary Sinise, who played astronaut Ken Mattingly in the 1995 film ''Apollo 13'', and executive produced by Richard Dale and Bill Howard, edited by Peter Parnham and Simon Holland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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