James Burke released banger after banger. From his Apollo coverage to Connections to The Day the Universe Changed, I can honestly saying that, growing up with these programs, he deserves most of the credit that I studied physics and am an engineer today. I wish I could meet this man and say thank you for covering these topics and instilling a curiosity in young adults that created a generation.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What a GREAT documentary!!!! 5 Stars!!!! Thank you!!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Apollo 1 fire so freaked me out, I literally didn’t eat for a week. In my family, you weren’t supposed to show strong emotion or talk about it, but the idea that they burned alive to shrunken charcoal made me sick, literally. I couldn’t keep anything down. My mother brought me to the doctor who said I had a hard “stomach flu.” I missed two weeks of school, after which time I couldn’t continue to fake it. I steeled myself and dragged myself to school every day, but was plagued by nightmares and intrusive thoughts so I couldn’t concentrate.

Brilliant program. NASA, Apollo, the Space Race, and the aftermath -- unvarnished. Love it.

Thank you for posting these videos. I love watching this type of retrospective that aired so long ago.

Wow, this is good! A British perspective on the Apollo program is so enlightening for Americans such as myself. This is very fresh and well done. I've been watching some videos of James Burke's BBC coverage of the moon missions of my youth and I am impressed with him!

Excellent documentary. Thanks for bringing it to us!

As a working engineer many of the issues discussed in this film are still relevant today, i.e. the testing regime and assumptions that sadly failed the Apollo 1 crew. NASA and Apollo were so pioneering that we use this programme as the benchmark today. Thanks for posting video.

Burke talks to 3 of the "Four Horsemen" who pushed NASA to increase the Apollo science effort. L to R: Jerry Wasserberg, Bob Walker, Jim Arnold (the 4th horseman Paul Gast d. 1973) 37:13 uphill fight for science 41:46 46:00 47:41 48:28 Wasserberg's startling lunar bombardment results 50:23 Burke: Do you know the origin of the Moon? Wasserberg's emphatic and sly "No. ... Do you?" is a straight man's pitch to Jim Arnold. Their exchange is my favorite moment.

Thank you very much LM5 for posting the two documentaries from 1979, I don't remember seeing them at the time, and you forget what an educated and lucid presenter James Burke is. A valuable timepiece with a lot of relevant information even 40 years later. Thank you

Stanislav Grof, Czech-American Psychologist-Psychiatrist with over 60 years of consciousness research brought me here, 03/23/2021. This film influenced so many people. Individuals whose lives became incredibly important to later generations like mine, 1969- on.

WOW!!!!! Wonderful gem from the BBC archive. And the protagonists interviewed - Jim Webb ,Thomas Paine ,Gene Kranz , Bob Gilruth ,George Low, Dale Myer, Rocco Petrone, Jim McDivitt, Harrison Schmitt , Jim Lovell , Dave Scott - Apollo Royalty ! Well done for finding it and thanks.

When I was a kid in the sixties, I remember my father bringing home a piece of white material that was very light, like styrofoam. It was a ceramic heat shield tile. Man, I was hooked. With all of the constant turmoil at the time, I thought the space program was incredible and a good thing for the whole world. Since then, so many amazing missions have been extremely successful among many countries. I see that same excitement and optimism again now throughout the world. Plans for the near future are in the works. I don’t think I’ll be around for the international Moon Orbital Docking Station or a manned mission to Mars, but I believe it will happen. Right now I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for launch of the James Webb Telescope. What an incredible time to be alive. I have so much admiration and respect for all of these brilliant, visionary, hard working and brave people. It’s such a great example of what people can accomplish when they work together. All I did was pay my taxes and I think it was money well spent. I am so glad there are people with the ability to do what I cannot. We have learned so much about the universe just within my lifetime, it blows me away. I think it must inspire children everywhere to take a serious interest in science, moral ethics and collaboration. Yeah!

The information gleaned from the moon also falls inline with Robert Schoch’s findings of the younger dryas period in history, the end of the last ice age then the cold snap followed by a rapid end to the ice age, very interesting stuff.

I was eleven when Apollo 11 went to the moon. I was really literally over the moon. I never saw this interview as in those days kids were sent to bed I would have understood o well I hope NASA will re open again the push for space travel. The world has greatly changed and we need hope in our hearts for a better safer world. The goal should be world peace and saving our beautiful planet earth. Godbless

For those who want to hear the Apollo 1 tragedy unfold there is a 32 minute audio on KZfaq of it, including the last 19 seconds. You hear the frustration because of the difficult time communicating they were dealing with, lastly, you hear that there is a fire. Sadly the last you hear from the crew was the youngest member screaming as he died.

Thank goodness for Burke for preserving these details for us. It would take many thousand hours to video document all that went into these missions and it would take people of the caliber of intelligence and artistic skill of Burke to capture it in an interesting way.

That was very interesting. Thanks for uploading it to KZfaq for us to watch.

Thanks. Burke's (unfortunately not related) stuff remains brilliant through the years.

James Burke, global treasure! pity we can't clone him for future generations

Thank you very much for your work.

Brilliant. Thank you for posting.

This is an amazing piece of journalism. My god. Leave it to the British to produce brilliant stuff.

james burke - a class act all the way! good show.

James Burke's Spectacles, Hairstyle and Dress Sense, like the Apollo missions, came and went, leaving an era of wonder in their wake...

I always use this time in our history to kinda like guide me how to deal with stress. Just listened to Mike Collins last interview and his honest answers to leading questions, leading down a political path inappropriate to the topic. His answers were kindly guiding the interviewer away. Nicely done!

I watched it 22 years old

Thank you so much for this ❤

This level of journalism too has never been reproduced since

5:35 Johnson in the upper left looking at Kennedy. A penny for your thoughts sir.

So excellent.

JB was always excellent. Connections is still one of the best series ever made... Oh, Remember when you could buy glasses you could actually Fing see out of?

The days when we had three channels in the UK lol

Dude with the eyepatch "a major Blindspot in the Apollo program and as a program manager i really can't See how we missed that" 😅

I’m looking for the documentary, The other side of the moon(1990). You got the name of this program wrong😑 This is Project Apollo: the other side of the moon.🙁

So very interesting. Thank you.

WRT Apollo 8 going without the LM, I wonder about another option, that surely must have occurred to someone, and why it wasn't considered. The LM was not ready, but couldn't they have prepared a LM that could serve as a lifeboat in case of an emergency requiring it? It would not have needed to be able to fly. In some ways, it could have been safer than a fully flight-ready LM, since it would not be fueled. Some parts could be left out, so some weight could be saved. OTOH many things could be learned even while using a LM in that limited capacity. Keep in mind, that it was well understood that a LM might be needed on such an emergency basis. That was not just dismissed as a far-out possibility.

25:35 Jack Schmitt (geologist; vague understanding of spacecraft design 1960-1970) gets educated by Jim McDivitt. 43:25

This excellent British documentary would've been lost if not for lunarmodule5 - Nothing like James Burke asking hard questions of Americans. It's a 1776 thing.

Why the guy from Nasa ( George Low) doesnt blink ?

I like the narrator. He was in a program where he looked at 10 things we made...and he had to go back in time to get all the pieces. I forget what the program was called.....but it was a great show.

I was born on July 16 1969

Brilliant.

Great video

There are numerous errors in this video. The reporter seems to completely lack the understanding of this: Everything that was being done was being done often for the 1st time. That entire systems had to be invented for every area. Things that still add so much to our lives in so many areas even today.

Great video!!!

Great video, 👍

Excellent , thank you

my kids are leaning about the other side of the moon

I can dig it!!

Good video,ironically the ending,ends with my most coveted photo,being in a photography family,I have a poster of that picture of the earth from the moon,and it is truly humbling and exhilarating at the same time just a stunner...of a photo.it was damage a little from a leaky porch roof but its still golden,and priceless,why I'm not sure but it just is great video....enjoyed it totally.I have a friend who almost went to work at NASA but was insulted by the pay rate,so he told me.THANKS....

2:35 a leadership lesson by Gene Kranz. What's important is not "me personally" but "we, the team".

Wonderful documentary... James Burke talked with all the Titans

It seems to me that James Burke became more negative in his conclusions concerning the Apollo program. Compare his closing comments in this broadcast, which included positive comments on zero defect engineering, reliability demonstration tests, and systems analysis, to his beginning comments on the ITV broadcast for the 25th anniversary of Apollo 11 - it wasn't 'the greatest scientific achievement ever'; it wasn't 'the greatest example of American high teach'; and it basically 'failed'. I understand his comments on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 were even more negative (about the program as a whole).

Great stuff! THANKS alot

After watching "Apollo I" on "From The Earth To The Moon", I often wondered if Harrison Storms was a scapegoat and he was.

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Wow! I sure with those ears, the flight director could have flown to the moon himself. lol

Good ‘ol BBC Radiophonic Workshop for end title music. Soooo 80’s, luv it! 👌😄

Brilliant

50:52 "...a few modest unmanned visits to the planets..." Pretty sure that's the Voyager program he's referring to...

Digging that suit Jack!

That scene with jfk looks familiar.

What did Shepherd mean by "Pass up an opportunity to go to the restroom?"

So - then, why is NASA developing the hardware and planning missions to go back to the moon? To do more science? To establish a ISS-style permanent presence on the lunar surface, or a stepping stone to Mars or other manned exploration of space? Frankly, I don't see it. Other than Mars, where can human beings go (without warp drive, that is), and for what purpose? China plans a manned moon mission in this decade or early in the next), but that's obviously a national pride thing, with science as a secondary objective. IMHO, most if not all of the science of a manned return to the Moon could be accomplished by a combination of rovers, like the ones we already have exploring Mars, and sample-return technology (technically simple and a lot cheaper than having humans along for the ride.

There's still active experiments in progress 🤐

@20:00 This is the first time that NASA kills a crew. A PURE Oxygen environment....with an electrical short= FRIED. Then they forgot about temp. effects upon rubber- and O ring failures. Then they forgot about velocity of objects (foam) striking other object. Made of tile. Seems to me that NASA has a low regard for 101 Safety...and Physics. Because ALL three of these instances.....are 101 No Shits.

9:22 jack became president?

Project Apollo Photo Archive. www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums

@54:10 : It's HAH-POWG, not HAW-PAHK

They have Gene Kranz name spelled Krantz. At 3:10 it sounds like he says He's glad to have been a imposter for his country.

Now NASA gobbles up 50 million a day to produce a few CGI's for the sheep to absorb. God bless you all.

It's a shame they haven't been back for close to 50 years. It's mankind's greatest achievement imo. With the technology today we could get better footage. You'd figure Russia or China would've done it. I hope in 50 years they don't forget to learn how to make an airplane.

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