NASA: The Space Series

Here, for the first time, a special combined program of official NASA films on video: America's high adventure in space, from Mercury to the moon, plus the historic U.S.- Soviet space link-up. Includes: 1) The World Was There (Mercury): World media coverage of Project Mercury, detailing the flights of Shepard, Grissom, Glenn, Carpenter, Schirra and Cooper from preparation through launch and recovery. 2) Legacy of Gemini: two-man space flights with outstanding photography of the earth and man in space. 3) Flight of Apollo 11 The Eagle Has Landed: Historic first landing of men on the moon, and the recovery of Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins. 4) Apollo/Soyuz: Yul Brynner narrates the U.S.-Soviet space rendezvous and docking. Astronauts and cosmonauts working together.