Product Description
Based on the Academy Award-nominated documentary film by the same name, this CD-ROM is a dramatic look at the Apollo missions to the moon and the human drama behind them. The film is supplemented with additional information, photos, and audio recordings from this historic event. The CD-ROM features nearly full-screen video and stereo sound. It will delight its audience with its power and subject. System Requirements: (Windows) 80486/25MHz processor; 5MB RAM; 640×480… More >>
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#1 by Lou Hawthorne on April 8, 2010 - 2:18 pm
The twenty-four astronauts who traveled to the moon between 1968 and 1972 were, in Al Reinerts words, “the first extraterrestrial humans.” This is the story of their voyage to another world,
captured on their film (NASA outfitted them all with 16 mm cameras) and in their own words.
It will knock your socks off. The footage is spectacular. Like tourists, the astronauts reflexively reached for their cameras when something surprising or simply beautiful floated into view, which
was about every five minutes. The first glimpse of what astronaut Harrison Schmitt called the “beautifully, brilliantly illuminated blue marble that we call the earth” was only the first shot to
make us swallow hard.
Reinerts movie is “pure reality”; he realized that the stuff of myth requires no embellishment. (Thank heavens Spielberg or Disney didn’t get there first.) From 238,000 miles up, God-squad
moments and timeworn phrases –”one small step for man,” “man must explore,” “mankind’s greatest adventure”–are not clichés but the intimate thoughts of humble, eloquent men
exquisitely aware of their own vulnerability and extraordinary privilege. There’s plenty of clowning around, too–dancing on the moon, weightless ham-sandwich making. The contrast between
human antics and the vastness of space had us constantly reaching for reality checks, only to remember that it really was happening.
The original Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail was $39.95.
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Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by J.E. Thompson on April 8, 2010 - 3:14 pm
The For All Mankind CD rom is good to have. It is more informative than the video, and it is complimentary to the DVD version of For All Mankind. You can view the movie as well as read the information. It lets you know which astronaut is talking while the movie is running. That way you know when astronaut Stuart Roosa, or Gene Cernan are talking, etc. The Cd also includes biographical data on each astronaut, as well as technical data of each mission. There is also a pictoral lay out of the Saturn V rocket that describes each component of the rocket and what its functions are.
Rating: 5 / 5