Could Have Been so Much More Amazing

The premise of this project is really phenomenal. Discovery Channel offers to restore thousands of hours of footage for NASA, and they get a documentary out of it. It is sad, however, how little information and footage they included, and the major though insignificant events they did focus on.

In particular, the Shuttle episode was a huge disappointment. The first flights of women, African-Americans, other nationalities. There is amazing NASA-Shuttle flight footage out there on YouTube that doesn't even appear in this documentary.

No mention of Apollo-Soyuz and Shuttle-Mir dockings, construction of Shuttle. I understand that this was a "celebration" of NASA's finest moments (again, many left out) but the sacrifices of Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia needed to be told. In the case of Challenger, this documentary was the first time many people familiar with the disaster learned that it was not a true "explosion" but a structural break-up of the vehicle, and the astronauts survived the break-up of the shuttle and were more than likely alive until they hit the water.

Did we really need to see footage of Kennedy's Moon race challenge... AGAIN?

"From the Earth to the Moon" was a far better documentation (though somewhat dramatized) of Mercury through Apollo.

But in terms of Shuttle, so many amazing things happened during its flights that it is mind-boggling how much was left out. When this was produced, ISS was as large as a football field, but it is presented here as in early construction phases.

It WAS an interesting watch and I even bought the DVD for my collection, but couldn't and can't believe how much was not even covered.