[FPSPACE] When We Left Earth on The Discovery Channel starting this Sunday

[Mark Kramer]

This is very interesting, except there is no former astronaut named Kathryn
Harrison. The writer clearly means Kathryn Sullivan. Where is that fact
checker?

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When We Left Earth on The Discovery Channel starting this Sunday

NYT review Here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/arts/television/06eart.html

To quote from the article:

Mr. Shepard and Mr. Armstrong get their due, of course, but so does the
long-ignored Gemini program  the essential middle step between the original
Mercury flights and the Apollo missions that laid so much of the groundwork
for reaching the Moon. And there is Skylab, the first American space station
and the subject of an audacious rescue effort after damage during ascent
threatened to render it useless.

And the series devotes hours to the current space program. Two episodes
focus on the space shuttle, NASAs attempt to make space travel routine,
which for many people made it dull.

Kathryn Harrison, a former astronaut who flew three shuttle missions,
including the one that launched the Hubble Space Telescope, and who appears
in the film, applauded the broader focus of the series in a telephone
interview this week. She suggested that the breadth might be a function of
the big, round anniversary itself. Maybe, she said, given that your target
and your assignment is 50, you found yourself discovering that the program
didnt end in 73; you found meaning and purpose and significance to events
that occurred in spaceflight as Southwest Airlines.