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Foolish Earthling Productions Video Store
Original versions of Foolish Earthling films and specials, director's cuts of series episodes, and special collections of shorts, limited series and program segments produced for the Discovery Channel, PBS, TV Ontario and elsewhere over the years.
Rocket Science Director's Cuts!
The Highest Step in the World
The rarely seen pilot episode. Long before the first astronauts left the earth, Colonel John Paul Stapp was testing high-G rocket sleds and launching pilots above the atmosphere in pressurized spacecraft using giant helium balloons. Follow the adventures of these brave "pre-astronauts", including Joe Kittinger, the first (and so far only) man to break the sound barrier without an airplane by free-falling home from the edge of space - three times.
The Highest Step In The World was recently honored with First Prize at the 2007 White Sands Film Festival, as well as the Judges' Choice Award for Best Documentary. In 2006 it received First Prize for Best Documenary and the Judges' Choice 'Spirit of Da Vinci' Award at the Da Vinci Film Festival.
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Rocket Science
Regular season Director's cuts - two (2) episodes per disc:
The Rocketeers
The history of the X series of aircraft, from Chuck Yeager’s Bell X-1 - the plane that broke the sound barrier - to the men who flew into space and back aboard the X-15.
The Last Empty Sky
Robert Goddard’s under-funded, largely ignored 1920s development of liquid-fueled rockets paralleled Werner Von Braun’s civilian rocket club, which ultimately created Hitler’s V2 rockets. At war’s end, Von Braun and fellow captured scientists are invited to continue their experiments at America’s White Sands Missile Range - using their own left-over V2s.
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The High Ground
Reaction to Sputnik finally spins the American program into high gear. The Space Task Group is formed at Langley AFB, establishing a viable lunar landing plan long before the first human flies in space. Von Braun and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory launch America’s satellite. NASA is formed and recruits its first seven astronauts.
Mercury Rising
Yuri Gagarin beats Alan Shepard into space by three weeks. Project Mercury creates instant heroes and awakens a new national purpose. The race for the moon begins.
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Missiles to the Moon
The missiles of the Cold War are utilized to launch Mercury and Gemini astronauts into orbit. Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov and American astronaut Ed White perform the first space walks.
The Learning Curve
Project Gemini allows NASA to develop techniques that will take them to the moon. Wally Schirra, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan and others practise rendezvous, docking and extra-vehicular skills. Frank Borman and James Lovell investigate long-term spaceflight by enduring two weeks in orbit confined to an area smaller than the front seat of a VW Beetle.
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"Go Fever!"
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee die in a flash fire during a routine countdown rehearsal at the cape. The investigation reveals errors and ommisions that reshape the Apollo program. The launch of the re-designed Apollo 7 spacecraft restores American confidence and sets NASA on course for the moon.
Ten Times Faster Than a Rifle Bullet
Werner von Braun captures the public’s imagination with his futuristic visions of space travel. As NASA gears up for the moon, Von Braun launches his masterpiece - the 6 million pound, 25,000 MPH Saturn Five rocket.
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