When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions Home in Space (Season 1, Episode 6)
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TV Episode | 49 min | Documentary, History

When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions

Home in Space (Season 1, Episode 6)

TV-G

TV Episode | 49 min | Documentary, History

When We Left the Earth examines at the recent shuttle program focusing on the repair of the Hubble Space Telescope, the building of the ISS, and the destruction of the Columbia.

Directors

Nick Green | Julian Jones | Dan Kendall

Writer

Ed Fields (series writer)

Producers

Tim Goodchild | Nick Green | Julian Jones | Dan Kendall

Composer

Richard Blair-Oliphant

Cinematographers

John Halliday | Paul Jenkins

Editors

Simon Holland | Andy Worboys | Chris Wright

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Edit Released

Updated Jun 22, 2008

Release date

Jun 22, 2008 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

1 nomination

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Cast	+ Add Cast
33 cast members

Name	Known for
Jeffrey Hoffman Self - Shuttle Astronaut (as Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman) Self - Shuttle Astronaut (as Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman) See fewer	Home Improvement (1991)
Ed Weiler Self - Chief Scientist, Hubble Self - Chief Scientist, Hubble See fewer	Nova (1974)
Milt Heflin Self - Flight Director Self - Flight Director See fewer	When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (2008)
Story Musgrave Self - Shuttle Astronaut Self - Shuttle Astronaut See fewer	Mission to Mars (2000)
Katherine Thornton Self - Shuttle Astronaut (as Kathy Thornton) Self - Shuttle Astronaut (as Kathy Thornton) See fewer	Home Improvement (1991)
Jerry Linenger Self - Shuttle Astronaut Self - Shuttle Astronaut See fewer	One Strange Rock (2018)
David Wolf Self - Shuttle Astronaut Self - Shuttle Astronaut See fewer	When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (2008)
Scott E. Parazynski Self - Shuttle Astronaut (as Scott Parazynski) Self - Shuttle Astronaut (as Scott Parazynski) See fewer	Everest: Beyond the Limit (2006)
Scott D. Altman Self - Shuttle Pilot Self - Shuttle Pilot See fewer	Top Gun (1986)
Michael E. López-Alegría Self - ISS Commander (as Mike Lopez-Alegria) Self - ISS Commander (as Mike Lopez-Alegria) See fewer	Capture the Flag (2015)
Gene Kranz Self - Flight Director Self - Flight Director See fewer	Failure Is Not an Option (2003)
Ken Bowersox Self - Shuttle Commander Self - Shuttle Commander See fewer	Home Improvement (1991)
Jon Clark Self - Shuttle Flight Surgeon Self - Shuttle Flight Surgeon See fewer	Nova (1974)
Evelyn Husband Self - Wife Self - Wife See fewer	NASA: Triumph and Tragedy (2009)
Barbara Morgan Self - Shuttle Astronaut Self - Shuttle Astronaut See fewer	Challenger: The Final Flight (2020)
Robert Gibson Self - Shuttle Commander (as Hoot Gibson) Self - Shuttle Commander (as Hoot Gibson) See fewer	Secret Space Escapes (2015)
Jay Barbree Self - Space Correspondant Self - Space Correspondant See fewer	Space Voyages (2013)
Eileen Collins Self - Shuttle Astronaut Self - Shuttle Astronaut See fewer	Spacewoman
Eugene Cernan Self (as Gene Cernan) Self (as Gene Cernan) See fewer	The Last Man on the Moon (2014)
Buzz Aldrin Self Self See fewer	Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Jim Lovell Self Self See fewer	Apollo 13 (I) (1995)
Gary Sinise Narrator Narrator See fewer	Forrest Gump (1994)
LeRoy Cain Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Nova (1974)
Michael P. Anderson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
David Brown Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Kalpana Chawla Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Laurel Clark Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Nancy J. Currie Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Rick Husband Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Our Jewish Roots (1978)
Willie McCool Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Ilan Ramon Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Our Jewish Roots (1978)
William M. Shepherd Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Space Station 3D (2002)
Neil Armstrong Self - Apollo 11 (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - Apollo 11 (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Forest 404 (I) (2019)