50 Years of NASA Footage Hits Discovery in HD this Summer

by Richard Lawler, posted May 9th 2008 at 12:39PM

Sure now we get live HD from the ISS like it's nothing, but much of the last half century of space exploration has never been seen by most in anything other than grainy analog broadcasts. That'll change in June once When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions debuts on Discovery Channel, drawing from more than 150 hours of NASA footage, called a cross between 'The Right Stuff' and EHD fave 'Planet Earth.' The Orlando Sentinel mentions the new doc is part of a push to ensure funding to speed further space explorations, as long as they provide more great HD opportunities we're all for it. Look for the Blu-ray boxed set July 24 for $79.95. [Source: Orlando Sentinel]

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Jim Persinger @ May 9th 2008 10:05PM

I have a Question NASA couldent answer me,they Reffered me to the visitors center,I asked them When the space Shuttles are retired,if they are like they are supposed to be in 2010,What are they going to do with them???Sell them off in a Surplus sale for old hardware ,I jokeingly asked if i could have first pick if that was the case ,so i could open up a resturant in it here on the Space coast ,All Kidding aside what are the plans for the retired Space Shuttles?

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mike griesmann @ May 12th 2008 3:03AM

The 3 remaining shuttles will most likely be stripped of anything unsafe for public display. IE- all fuel tanks, electrical grids, and other "space ready hardware". Then they will be most likely cosmectically made for museum display. I am sure 1 will go on display at the Kennedy Space Center, 1 will go to the Smithsonian, and the 3rd will go to Space Center in Houston TX, or some other large space exploration center dot the US.
They will for sure go on display along with all the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft that are on display across the nation to contiune our history of space travel for all to see.
MIke

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