Product: For All Mankind [VHS] (1989)
Rating: 3.0
Disjointed presentation was a disappointment
I found this video to be a disappointment. It contains video clips from the Apollo missions. There are clips from inside the spacecraft, from spacecraft to spacecraft, on the surface of the moon, of the astronauts preparing to enter the spacecraft at Cape Canaveral and from the mission control center in Houston. The problem is that the clips are disjointed, unless you are very schooled in the Apollo program, you do not know what mission the clip is from. Other than watching the clip, there is no way to determine what the current activity is. This disjointed presentation is confusing and decimated my interest.There was one aspect that I found of interest and that was the equipment. Looking at the now antiquated equipment, it is amazing to realize that humans did use it to walk on the surface of the moon. It makes one wonder why, with the much more advanced modern equipment, that there are such problems with the American space program. It also contains my favorite John F. Kennedy quote, "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."