"Moon Machines" and "Tank On The Moon" on Science Channel

[FlyingPenguin]

They should repeat these several times during the next couple of months on Science Channel. Well worth seeing.

Moon Machines is six 1 hour episodes on the design and engineering of the Apollo moon rocket systems, including the space suit (designed and built by the same company that made Playtex bras BTW!). Fascinating if, like me, you're curious how they came up with the designs for these things, tested them, and made them work. I've read up a LOT on Apollo but there was a lot of stuff in here I'd never seen before.

Netflix also has it: https://movies.netflix.com/movie/Moon_M ... ?fdvd=true

Tank On The Moon is about the little known Soviet lunar rovers "Lunokhods" that drove around the moon for several months and 30 odd miles a year after Apollo 11. If not for a rocket failure, they would have landed the first rover 18 months before Apollo 11. Fascinating how they engineered this thing to work via remote control. A feat that was not replicated by the United States for another 30 years when we landed the Mars Rovers. The designer of the Lunokhod actually helped us design the Mars Rovers.

http://science.discovery.com/tv/tank/tank.html

[normalicy]

Interesting. I'm gonna check it out.