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PBS airing a British produced show called "Rocketmen" next week..check PBS for times

I recorded something called "Rocketmen" on PBS the other night. It did not seem terribly UK-ish. Lots of really nice NASA footage, but not a great piece of work.

Narration was about on par with a NASA internal production from about 1970. It skipped Skylab, which was actually a very cool series of scientific missions that even included a fairly dramatic repair in space. Never mentioned the Soviets. The entirety of 30 years of Shuttle flights was covered as follows: Columbia's maiden launch, Bruce MacCandless in/on the MMU, Challenger's explosion, and the loss of Columbia. No Hubble. No Shuttle-Mir or ISS missions. Nothing.

Plenty of pretty video, but not all that great.

I must be a south east thing, my PBS is showing about dead people in bogs."Murdered Kings"

Yeah, they tried to pack too much info into a small time slot, the old NASA footage was cool.