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"When We left Earth: The NASA Missions" airs
Sunday on Discovery Channel.
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The original rocket launches, however, represented
boundless optimism. People gathered around television
sets and counted backward from 10 for liftoff. Watching
the men land on the moon remains one of those
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where they were when Neil Armstrong took those first
steps on the moon.
Discovery Channel attempts to recapture some of that
magic with “When We Left Earth: The NASA
Missions,” a three-part series beginning Sunday, June 8,
and continuing the next two Sundays. Gary Sinise
(“Apollo 13”) narrates the six hours, told chronologically
with 50 years of NASA footage that the cable network
transferred into high definition.
Though Discovery is to be commended for
undertaking such an ambitious project, this comes
across as propaganda for NASA, unquestioning in
whatever the space agency did. It fails to put the
missions in the context of their times.
“We are not trying to tell a history of NASA,” Bill
Howard, executive producer, says. “We are trying to tell
an adventure story through the firsthand accounts of the
astronauts themselves.”
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World War II battle footage shot by
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Military Channel Web site at military.
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in with Cameron Mathison
Cameron Mathison has spent most of the past
decade playing fan iavonte Ryan Lavery on the ABC
soap opera “All My Children,” but more recently he
has added another credit to his resume: TV host.
An increasingly frequent face on red-carpet
telecasts and entertainment news shows,
Mathison also is the host of TLC’s first foray into
the game show genre, “Your Place or Mine?” It
premieres Sunday, June 8.
“It feels like a good fit for me to host,
because the energy of it suits me,” Mathison
says of the show, in which families compete to
win new home furnishings that are moved right
into their homes as the game is in progress.
“It feels pretty live,” he adds, “and 1 think it’s
safe to say that a lot of things happen that you
won’t be expecting.’’
These hosting gigs are especially satisfying,
Mathison explains, because they let him bring so
much of himself to the job.
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Before men went into space, Ham die Astrochimp
did. Highly trained astronauts followed, among them
Buzz Aldrin, who was in the third group of men
selected. Aldrin established a record for extravehicular
activity, or spacewalking, and he was the second man to
walk on the moon.
Imagine taking a walk at night, gazing at the moon
and knowing you walked there. Aldrin is one of a dozen
who can.
“It’s the same moon you see en route until you get
very close,” Aldrin says. “And then it’s a very rough,
crater-pocked moon, especially on the back side. The I
third moon is the one you touch down on and exit and
walk around on the surface. It’s a very desolate moon -
magnificent desolation.” i
Aldrin still sounds amazed as he talks about “the
progress and evolution of mankind to a remarkable 1
point where we could-build the rockets and spacecraft
and leave the bonds of Earth with rocket travel. What a
magnificent achievement for man.” a
As the first American woman to walk in space,
Kathryn Sullivan explains what it was like packed into
the 350-pound spacesuit, floating in zero gravity.
“I always thought of it as the universe’s most amazing
jungle gym,” she says. “It reminded me of crawling on
monkey bars as a kid. The spacewalk is a terrible
misnomer. Except for the 12 guys who walked on the
moon, the rest of us are doing jungle gym
maneuvering.”
“I’ve always found, frankly, that my best
work as an actor is when I can bring more of
myself to a role,” he says. “These newer
opportunities let me bring my personality and
my goofiness and my high energy, so I fed
very comfortable with these things, actually.”
Despite a childhood disability that kept
him in a leg brace between the ages of 4 and
7, Mathison cut a major rug on the fifth
season of “Dancing With the Stats,” where he
landed in the top five.
“I’m not sure how I did it, but I doubt
that I’ll ever have another job
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