Science 40 Years on the Moon

[Lamp]

BBC4 tonight 8pm Prof Brian Cox


BBC iPlayer - The Horizon Guide: Moon

Edit: if you don't fancy that, there's a show all about lesbians on Channel 5 ("Candy Bar Girls")

 

[Exioce]

Worth watching for the James Burke footage alone.

Related: Been working my way through this:
The Mighty Saturns - Saturn V Extended Collector's Edition DVD: Amazon.co.uk: The Mighty Saturns: Film & TV

 

[Edmond]

BBC4 tonight 8pm Prof Brian Cox


BBC iPlayer - The Horizon Guide: Moon

Edit: if you don't fancy that, there's a show all about lesbians on Channel 5 ("Candy Bar Girls")

Guess which one i'll be watching.....

 

[dysfunction]

Guess which one i'll be watching.....

Worlds Craziest Fools on BBC3??

 

[Edmond]

Grrrrrrr....I ain't gettin' on no plane, sucka!!!!!

 

[Ch3tan]

Guess which one i'll be watching.....

both... they are on at different times

 

[Edmond]

both... they are on at different times

Yay, Info-tainment

 

[Zenith.UK]

Getting Prof Brian "Blimey, Planets eh?" Cox to narrate it wasn't a bad idea.
I always like watching anything to do with the Apollo space programme.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

The Beeb documentary is decent. Best bits are actually James Burke, not Cox.

 

[Job]

I recommend A man on the Moon, if that book doesn't
make you pine for the days when men were men ,nothing will.



This review is from: A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts (Paperback)
I read this when it first came out in paperback some years ago and I have to say that it is probably the most compelling work of non-fiction I have ever come across. The tone of the book is simply inspirational. Chapter by chapter Chaikin gets to the core of what the Apollo missions meant for all involved. In particular, the chapter dealing with the second mission, Apollo 12, will stay with me for the rest of my life - and I'm not being melodramatic! The sense of achievement for the astronauts, coupled with the sobering realisation that their careers - and perhaps their lives - have peaked, is probably the emotional high-point of the book and is poignantly dealt with by the author.
I will never walk on the moon, and neither will you. The closest we will ever get is Chaikin's book. Read it. You won't be disappointed.
That about sums it up.