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Topic: Moonshot: Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (book, TV documentary)
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rsynge
Member Posts: 63
From: UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 02-15-2003 12:21 PM
   
On the front cover of a recently-purchased edition of "Moonshot," a sticker says: "Moonshot: A TBS-televised event." I was wondering - did TBS ever produce a mini-series or anything like that of Moonshot? If not, does anyone know what this sticker means?Excellent book by the way - especially the description of Apollo 14's voyage and landing. I'd strongly recommend it to anyone that hasn't already read it. |
Russ Still
Member Posts: 535
From: Atlanta, GA USA
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-15-2003 12:35 PM
Yes, there was a mini-series/documentary put out at the same time as the book. I believe that was in 1994 and seems like the TV broadcast was in two 2-hour episodes, but I'm just going from memory. It might have been in late 1993.There was a "premier" party for the telecast in Atlanta at the Fox Theatre. Wally Schirra and Alan Shepard attended along with the TV actor who narrated the film. |
KLC
Member Posts: 48
From: U.P. Michigan
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 02-15-2003 12:40 PM
Didn't Shepard also do something for cable (maybe?) about the space program before he passed away? I seem to remember something about him being the narrator for a project. I remember watching this, and also remember the reviews about it. One line in particular about how Mr. Shepard looked a little like Don Knots. |
John K. Rochester
Member Posts: 1292
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 02-15-2003 12:58 PM
Moonshot was produced by TBS and was a really great documentary of the space program... shots of Al Shepard staring off into the distance through the wispy curtain of his hotel room, the remaining five of seven Mercury guys all seated around a table remembering the glory days, great old footage... really great show! Narrator (whose name escapes me) was the actor who played the retired astronaut in "Northern Exposure" was speaking in the place of Deke, who had recently passed away. |
rocketJoe
Member Posts: 103
From: Huntsville, AL USA
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 02-15-2003 01:08 PM
Moonshot was a great production. I have the video set, but does anyone know if it was released on DVD?By the way, the narrator was Barry Corbin (who's character in Northern Exposure was a fictitious Mercury astronaut). |
rsynge
Member Posts: 63
From: UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 02-18-2003 06:14 AM
Thanks for the information, guys. If anyone knows how to get hold of the video of the Moonshot documentaries, I'd be really grateful if you'd let me know. |
Andy McCulley
Member Posts: 245
From: Lansdale, PA
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 02-18-2003 08:39 AM
If you go to Barnes & Noble, their DVD/VHS section you can order it there.Although, you are on the other side of the pond, I am not sure of the format issues. But its a place to start. |
Tyler
Member Posts: 27
From: Auburn, Alabama, United States
Registered: Aug 2009
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posted 04-12-2010 10:13 AM
I just watched this entire documentary on YouTube; Moonshot was uploaded in 19 parts to the video sharing website in 2009. I remembered watching it on VHS several years ago and was struck once again by the footage in this three hour production.The making of the film was in progress when Deke Slayton died. The film ends on this note and even retells a very strange story: several witnesses reported seeing Slayton's racing plane take off in southern California several hours after his reported death on June 13, 1993. The plane was supposedly in a museum at this time, yet witnesses documented the takeoff. Does anybody have any more details regarding this story? |
Gilbert
Member Posts: 1328
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 04-12-2010 04:55 PM
For a cool variation on the story of the phantom Slayton plane, check out the novel Abandon in Place by Jerry Oltion. (Tor Books) |
E2M Lem Man
Member Posts: 846
From: Los Angeles CA. USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 04-14-2010 11:02 AM
This should be a movie: The story was in the "Pacific Flyer" aviation newspaper a couple months after Deke died.Bobbie Slayton found in a mailbox two tickets from the FAA saying that Deke had violated rules about noise and low altitude flight at Orange County, CA. airport, and had to answer for them. The aircraft make and tail number were plainly seen, it said. The problems were that Deke had passed a couple hours earlier that day, and that particular racing aircraft was in pieces in a Arizona(?) museum. When Bobbie was asked about it, she said she thought the story was true, and the reason for the delay after Deke died was that Gus was propping the engine. Sounds about right! |
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