When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions

A miniseries documenting American human spaceflight, spanning from the first Mercury flights through the Gemini program to the Apollo moon landings, the Space Shuttle, and the construction of the International Space Station. It was created in association with NASA to commemorate the agency's fiftieth anniversary in 2008.

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Status	Ended
Original Name	When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions
First Air Date	June 8, 2008
Last Air Date	June 22, 2008
Seasons	1
Episodes	6
Episode Runtime	1h 0min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	United States of America
Production Companies	Dangerous Films Discovery
Networks	Discovery

S01E06

Home In Space

One of the most complex instruments ever built, the Hubble Space Telescope is expected to transform our understanding of the Universe. But once it is in orbit NASA discovers a serious problem, a defective main mirror. NASA sends a team of astronauts to fix the problem in its greatest and highest profile mission since the Apollo era. It gives NASA the confidence to begin construction on the International Space Station.

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