From the Earth to the Moon - Spider ending clip
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- Опубликовано: 24 сен 2006
- From the fifth episode of the great miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon". Ending of this episode is just amazing, great music and great storytelling.
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"this one is the Eagle"
sent chills down my spine the first time I heard those lines.
absolutely the best episode of an amazing series.
and it will be up to Neil and Buzz to park it on the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon.
Agreed
it hits me equally hard when they fade to Tom Dolan as he said "... first dreamed of her"
And I'd imagine it was absolutely a dream come true for both him and Houbolt, who both probably thought it would never happen.
A machine does have a soul...the soul of those who built her.
1701echopapa and of those who designed her, and dreamed of her.
This is my favorite episode from the miniseries. I actually started to tear up a little at the end.
A great miniseries.
Yes, me too
I have a hard time deciding which line chokes me up the hardest
"... first dreamed of her" or "this one is the Eagle"
I loved this show because it told the stories we never even knew we needed to hear - it gave me a full experience of the whole Apollo program - not just the stories of the astronauts, but the countless people who worked tirelessly to put them on the moon.
Same for me. Galileo was Right and Spider are my top ones. Every time I watch these two I get chills and feelings of euphoria because it reminds me how much I love science and engineering. Two close seconds are the first one about the Gemini program and the second one about Apollo One.
Favorite overall episode of the series. Whole thing is worth every penny on DVD
So long...Spider.
Believe it or not, this clip helped me get over a really bad breakup. Eventually, you have to let go, but remember the good times. There will be other girlfriends, (like there were other LEMs) and each time will get better than the last.
The series has so many teary moments. During the Apollo 1 Fire, when we see "Stormy" crying by himself in his den. When Pat White comes home to find Janet Armstrong waiting for her with bad news. This episode. I also tear up at the Final Episode. When the last step on the moon is made. When Edison steals the Moon Movie. When they show the abandoned moon landing sites. When they show pictures of the real astronauts and their missions.
-Ah me. Television at its best!
Best soundtrack ever:-)
Here's a video of just the music track without the dialogue. And yes, it's such a beautiful piece of music. ruclips.net/video/vAF7xrxAkmM/видео.html
Matt Craven adds so much to every role he plays. An understated but excellent actor.
Agreed.
For the longest time, I could only see him as the guy from Crimson Tide, and inevitably the line that always pops into my head is "you don't put on a condom unless you're gonna **ck!!"
One of my favorite episodes :-) I sometimes also feels that every machine or item have it's own unique soul. I heard that Japanese believe that machine has it's own soul do when we offend our computer it may refuse to listen us :-)
PawelK198604 That one I have never listened before.
My favorite part of the series is the ending in this episode...so touching, great music, really captures the spirit of the time! Thanks!
Hell yes. I've seen the whole series multiple times and I end up teary-eyed during this episode and the Apollo 1 fire every time.
This series is some of the best television I've ever seen. Even though it's a dramatization I think it should be required viewing in schools.
In a nation of chaos, ignorance and despair, this is still very inspiring.
Almost every nation is one of chaos, ignorance and despair, many are much much worse than America. But America is the only one that made such an achievement, so you should be proud. I hear so many Americans speaking of their country as if it's the worst place on Earth, but it's much better than many other places.
My girlfriend gave me the complete collection as a christmas present. I love this series!
I recommend the documentary "Moonshot".
It's a two hour documentary that is pretty damn exciting at times. Some of the coolest moments (like Gemini 8 spinning out of control, Apollo 11 landing, 13 recovery, and the entire mercury project) are brought to life in an amazing way for a documentary.
In fact one of the reasons the Apollo 11 landing in From Earth to the Moon was such a let down to me was because the Moonshot presentation (with the real audio and video) was so much cooler.
Wasn't that the one with Barry Corbin narrating as Deke Slayton?
"And then there's me, Slayton, the BEST of the Seven. ... wouldn't be a good test pilot if I wasn't sure of that" :P
Agreed, this was the greatest mini-series ever. Sometimes it seems like, as a country, we have lost the determination of the Apollo era.
There is no "seems like", we DID. As iconic a visual as the Space Shuttle is,... it was one of the worst things to ever happen to NASA,... because it forever commercialized the industry, turning it into a jobs program rather than a vehicle for exploration and discovery. The pioneering spirit became overshadowed by a capitalistic one.
This one and the Apollo 12 episode were the best ones. Dang, I wish I was around in the 60s/70s to experience this!!
Great stuff! Too bad they won't sell the score of the miniseries. The music done by the individual composers for each episode was some of the best I ever heard. One of my favorite music sections is from part 6. The music when the Apollo 11 astronauts are walking to the van before the launch is amazing.
Agree completely, loved the music the first time I heard it
"Spider" is easily the best track of the whole thing
The series aired in 1998. It was available on tape as well. Most libraries probably had it.
I know right!!!! My lifelong dream was to be the first man to walk on Mars, now I doubt my dream will ever come true. :(
Grumman...amazing company that practically built Long Island.
The Best ever TV miniseries about the Proyecto Apollo to the Moon. I wish more scenes or memorables events of the remarkable miniserie.
My father was one of those LM Grumman workers…..He watched Eagle land on the moon live on monitors set up in the plant where she was built… I was born in Bethpage just a few miles from the Grumman plant in 1968
Just watched this one im not crying you are crying!!!😂😂😂
Tom also played Sally's love interest in an earlier movie called "Punchline".
And for the record, the episode was called "The ORIGINAL Wives Club". "First Wives Club" is a movie.
And it's a shame that Apollo 16 got such a short showing so they could focus on the wives.
awsome clip
100 Snazzes on the 100 point Snazz-o-Scale!
-Perfection! Thank you so much for posting this. I do have the DVD set, and watch it at least once a year. I do think it's one of the greatest series ever shown on television. The music is wonderful.
-I bought the soundtrack and was disappointed; no Spider music. Just pop tunes, and the opening and closing themes. (which are great.)
-I too tear up in this one. And the Apollo 1 Fire episode. And the final moon mission episode.
Actually have watched it several times. You did a good job on it.
Best episode
@predatortheme First of all, they're not all called "Eagle". That was the name of the one used for the first landing on Apollo 11. The one we see in this episode LM-3 was named "Spider". The ascent stage of LM-4, which we also see here, was named "Snoopy" and is still intact because it was left in a solar orbit rather than an Earth or lunar orbit, both of which decay much faster.
RIP Tom Stafford.
The best series tom hanks produced brilliant 😊
My fav. ep
I think this was one of the best episodes we all know the history but now we got to see the trials and tribulations of the people who made the machines.
The music is by Mason Daring. I believe he is a composer.
I cry everytime
If it were not the genius engineers at Grumman, a person may never have stepped on the moon. Most of us know the names of the astronauts and cosmonauts, but hardly anyone remembers the names of the people thanks to which space travel is possible at all.
Very true.
Tom Kelly completed his book, “Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module” in 2001,
a year before his death. It is on my required reading list for new engineers and project managers.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Kelly_(aerospace_engineer)
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An excellent series.
We're going back.
"Audentes Fortunas Juvat"
its my favourite too, together with "Galileo Was Right"
Is there any place where you can get this song and/or the sheet music for it??
This is the best series ever. I found this in my dad's study a couple year's back. My dad was an Apollo nut, and I think him and I can agree that this is the BEST depiction of Apollo EVER.
Good stuff. Too bad they won't release the score from this miniseries. The music done by the individual composers was sone of the best I ever heard.
Yeah, this was a great episode.
Like any great thing, it must come to an end. We must all let go of our Spider, knowing it is time to move on and pursue bigger and better things, aka our Eagle.
Touching - Rusty knew he was never going to fly as an astronaut again after the space sickness....Frank Borman too.....
That's only because they had yet to fully understand how/why space sickness (what they later called Space Adaptation Syndrome) happened. Now it happens less often, and yet is still even expected. It was why manned flights to ISS generally take a slower 2-day trip to arrive, to allow that first day for all the crewmembers to fully acclimate before the important docking procedure.
Episode 5 is the best. I love Mason Daring's music.
I love this episode. I have several "favorite episode"s--who can pick just one? I made a silly tribute to the series, using clips from the "making of" featurette. I guess only big fans of FTETTM will find it funny. Hope you'll watch it!
Aother good episode was "The First Wives Club." A cool look into something different, the wives of the astronauts. Directed by Sally Field, a good friend of Tom Hanks.
I think Band of Brothers was to Saving Private Ryan what From the Earth to the Moon should have been to Apollo 13.
@mpgingdl
On his wikipedia page it says "The time Schweickart spent post-flight studying space sickness contributed to his missing assignments on Apollo lunar missions."
That is a little ambiguous, and there is no source. Sometimes what happened was they wanted to be commanders on later missions and a spot doesn't open up (Stafford was the same). McDivitt never flew again either.
at 3:20 there's Eagle next stop for this LM The Moon and it is going to be Neil who will park it there.
Actually the headgear was affectionately called a 'snoopy cap.'
you're coming out????? that takes a lot of courage
Shit! I forgot my wallet in there!
@monokhem - According to NASA the Ares I-X flight shook less than a Shuttle flight. The Shuttle doesn't vibrate too much for cargo (we put cargo on it all the time). Not to mention that if a vehicle doesn't vibrate too much for humans it certainly wouldn't be too much for cargo. Cargo can handle a lot more vibration than a human can. Hence why unmanned rockets are allowed to vibrate at levels that would be too dangerous for humans (like the unmanned Titan and Delta rockets).
Some of it was boring, but there were great great inspiring moments. Spider certainly was one of the greatest. The pride in the machine, that baseball... also the geological one, and the best was "you saved 1968" one...
Don't get me wrong - Project Constellation had problems and needed quite a bit of retooling as well. But even with its problems it established vehicles and architecture/infrastructure that made more infrastructure possible. The Ares V rocket was powerful enough to lift orbital fuel depots into orbit that would make extended missions and multiple round trips before having to land on Earth possible; and was powerful enough to lift vehicles and equipment to the Moon to create a permanent lunar base
Actually, my favorite episode is "Gallileo was Right". maybe tied with :Spider" and "1968". each had thier little scenes. But I love in "GWR" when Dave Scott talks to the professor as he looks out the hatch window at the moon.
"You were with us, Professor. Every step of the way"
Actually, after Apollo 8, Deke considered dispensing with the usual rotation and assigning them to Apollo 11, but Borman (like Wally Schirra, Jim McDivitt, and Mike Collins) had gotten tired of the grind and decided Apollo 8 would be his last flight.
The Ares V was powerful enough to lift a large ship up in sections that could take astronauts to Mars (a ship to take humans to Mars would need to be as big as an HLV rocket like the Saturn V, N1 or Ares V, possibly even bigger). The Ares I rocket was powerful enough to be a light-HLV on its own even without the Orion payload. The Orion was far more versatile than the Apollo ever was and the Altair was designed to be even more useful than the Orion. Capable of ferrying multiple crews
@camilleri63 I loved this episode. My other faves were Apollos 12 and 15.
@monokhem - You do know the worries about vibration came out a couple of years before the Ares was actually tested? When the Ares I-X actually flew the rocket vibrated about 9 times less than the computer predictions predicted it would. The Ares I-X vibrated a little less than a normal Shuttle flight. The vibration-absorbing springs they created for the rocket turned out to be not necessary.
The info you're going on is very old.
I think you are right on both counts...I hope we haven't peaked as a country.
A86, you're absolutely right. A lot of people here don't seem to be thinking about Space as the industry it could be. Instead they'd rather build something quick and cheap to fulfill one politically-motivated purpose. We should be building a fleet of ships with the capacity to fulfill dozens of tasks for a long term and expanded presence in space. It's a shame because the investment would give the entire global economy a huge boom in just a matter of years.
Yeah, GWR was the best. I also liked the last one, especially when Cernan drew his daughter's name on the moon.
@monokhem - The Ares V first stage would likely vibrate at unsuitable levels for a human, but it's tolerated because it's not meant to carry humans anyway. The Ares V upper stage shouldn't vibrate more, theoretically, than the Saturn V S-IVB. Given it uses a similar engine and avionics.
You can read about the thrust oscillation results for Ares I-X here:
en (.) wikipedia (.) org / wiki / Ares _ I - X # Thrust _ oscillation
@monokhem - Nova would have probably been a quicker launch system to develop than Saturn but would probably be a less efficient system overall with the Apollo program. The Saturn system leaves room open for most adaptations, add-ons, combinations and wider applications.
"and a bad family of rockets that weren't working well"
I'm sorry but that's just downright untrue. The Ares I-X worked virtually perfectly. According to flight telemetry it vibrated less than a Shuttle flight.
yes right. I hope the LM eagle comes back in a new (not so much different ) design but it should be way much modern :P
The Apollo 9 mission was just to test the LEM.
It just orbited the Earth.
@avi8r1
I am not an American, but from what I know the U.S. government stopped Apollo program for economic reasons, for the same reason the Soviet Union abandoned its lunar program and focused on a program of manned space stations.
Both the American and the Soviet lunar program created just for political reasons, after Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, the politicians lost interest in it and cut off funding.
Ad astra per aspera.
I'd love to ask guys like Jim McDivitt or Rusty Schweikhart what they thought of this series (Dave Scott was technical advisor so he might not be the most objective person to ask).
@PawelK198604 A lot of it was due to politics as well. Right after Apollo 15, Nixon was even thinking of axing Apollo 16 and 17, but luckily his advisors convinced him that it would be a bad idea. Nixon wanted to cut funding for Apollo in favor of the shuttle and voyager. Yeah, Apollo was expensive, but we could have made more economic improvements and kept the design. The shuttle was very much over-promised, and since then we have been spinning our wheels in leo.
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Yes, Can i have the "Spider/eagle track
@monokhem - Key word: "were". That's an exaggeration as well: Years ago they were worried it would rattle so much that it would be unsuitable for humans, not that it would shake itself apart or fly off course. The Ares I-X test put those fears to rest.
"It was still to much of a problem"
According to whom? According to whom did the Ares I-X vibrate so much that it was unsuitable for humans or "too much of a problem"? NASA hasn't said that.
@PawelK198604 Don't get me wrong, the shuttle is great and we learned a lot from it; however it provides very few advantages over an expendable launch system. Thus, ever since then, its the same old story. I was saddened when constellation was cancelled, but was not surprised. Someone puts forth an idea, and it gets axed when the next president comes in, and the cycle continues. Great example of politics fucking shit up. Makes one wonder what we could have done...
Interestingly, David Andrews, who played Borman in the series, played Pete Conrad in the movie (even though he's way too tall and looks nothing like Conrad). Connor O'Farrell (McDivitt) has been in a lot of other stuff. (He was the evil undersheriff McKeen who killed Warrick on CSI!)
As for the Apollo 13 episode, they were kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. They couldn't rehash the movie but little else would have seemed interesting.
There was a lot of reused cast from Apollo 13 in From the Earth to the Moon. The CAPCOM (forget which astronaut he was supposed to be, but we can infer from "when I go up on 19" that its either William Pogue or Gerald Carr) played Dave Scott in the miniseries.
As for the Apollo 13 episode,... I get where they were going with it,.. but I just wish they remained with actual history, instead of focusing on a fictional conflict between fictional newscasters of a fictional network.
@Briggie Nobody at NASA at the time wanted the shuttle past the first one. They also did not want to give up the space station it had. They had other idea's that would have reached beyond the moon, that were more cost effective. In the end they were forced to build multiple shuttles and abandon the U.S. space station. All because they had to many countries fighting over how the U.S. should run the space program, because they helped pay for some of it! To many chiefs and no indians syndrome.
Why didn't Schweikart ever fly again? Did it have something to do with his illness on Apollo 9?
so fucking sad they eagles had to burn up in atmosphere :( .
why didnt they let them parachute back? or let them slow down and chute into atmosphere?
i know its normaly burning cuz of the speed and the friction of the air that limits the falling speed of it. but if the lm was slowed down wouldnt it work then?
i mean it is a great ship and it should come into museums :D
@82abnoff I did too, at 22 but many years later. Stand up, Hook Up.
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Did you ask him what he thought of the mini-series?
It's kind of a shame that Apollo 10 got such a pitifully brief showing. 26 seconds! I counted. Apollo 16 got the short end of the stick too so they could focus an episode on the astronauts' wives.
@brychelle73 You"re so lucky!!
Did you ask him what he thought of this mini-series?
We can do better than our parents did in the 60's. We can stand on their shoulders, and take the next big steps. Not Mars. Not The Moon (again). Both. All of it. Put dozens of people into space at a time. Space habitats, outposts, exploration vessels to different regions of the solar system.
@monokhem - "The ISS would have had to have been burned"
No it wouldn't. All the government would have to do is increase funding a measly $700 million/year to keep it afloat and go ahead with Constellation. The amount of money spent on NASA today is far less than the Apollo Era when we were spending over 2% of US GDP on NASA.
"there wouldn't have been any money left to build a lunar base" You do you know after the Shuttle program ended all future money would go to Constellation?
That's why I hated First Man
I know it wasn't like this but for those of us who know and love merc/ gen/ Apollo..
This is how it makes you feel.
Forgive me, I've had a bevy but you know what I mean. Happy Easter.
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I actually thought Apollo 16 was done well. The story of the wives and families had to be told at some point. And it was directed by Sally Field. A good choice for the episode.
As shaky as many of the marriages ended up being, it was also inspirational how the Bormans fought together through Susan's alcoholism and remained true to each other, and the Lovells were as strong as any marriage could ever be.
@monokhem - Giving all of NASA's money to one program would be a disaster because NASA provides probably over a hundred vital services to the US (and the entire world actually). SLS is more of a kludge than Constellation became. SLS sucks the air out of the room for platform growth whereas Constellation still leaves room open for growth and wider applications (such as establishing lunar bases and Lagrange Point stations, etc.).
Less time to develop =/= Better
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@monokhem - Unless Ares eats up in excess of $10 billion/year, which there is no indication it would after the development stage.
"Over 10 years to develop = inferior"
By that logic Apollo was inferior. The time it takes to develop a system is not the determinant of its sophistication. Even critics of the hardware know Ares can be developed faster with a sufficient budget. Not funding a program properly will inflate costs for any program. That's what's happening with Obama's program now.
@monokhem - "Ares 1-X was a disaster"
How in God's name is a virtually perfect flight a "disaster"? And since the Shuttle vibrates well within the limits of toleration for human flight (it vibrates less than the Saturn V in most flights) how is the Ares I-X vibrating less than the Shuttle low standards?
The wives is an interesting story. I just don't think it should've been at the expence of the Apollo 16 mission itself.
I don't understand all the praise. I thought this series was a huge disappointment. Apollo 13 was absolutely fantastic but this series just seemed labored. I was as big a space nut as there was and I still taped every episode off HBO when it came out, but was instantly let down.
The series did have some great moments and some great character actors (the Frank Borman and Jim McDivit actors looked just like them).
Notice Bulldog from Frasier as Gene Kranz? The Apollo 13 episode BLEW.
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listen to me I sound like Tom Kelly.