Our link to Spacecraft Films
We have provided our visitors with a direct link to Spacecraft Films (www.spacecraftfilms.com) at the top of our home page. Without a doubt Spacecraft Films is one of the best web sites ever created dedicated to preserving the finest moments of the American space effort on DVD. The site itself provides free previews (several minutes long) of some rare and excellent footage recovered from the NASA Archives.

They are currently making available to the public:

Project Gemini
Saturn 1 & 1B
Saturn V
Apollo 8 (First to Orbit the Moon)
Apollo 11 (First Moon Landing)
Apollo 13 (A Successful Failure)
Apollo 15
Apollo 16
Apollo 17 (First Night Launching)

In general the overall quality of these films is outstanding and we give them four stars.  The documentaries include interviews with old German Rocket Scientists, NASA Project Engineers and Managers and is always pertinent and often as interesting as the footage itself.  If you are a space enthusiast you will find yourself positively elated by the films raw visual content and moving musical scores.  The box sets also include extensive footage recorded by "engineering cameras" mounted in fuel tanks, looking down at the earth from the vantage point of the airframe during launch, payload deployments in orbit and more.

The Spacecraft Films Site Itself

The SPACECRAFT FILMS web site is worth a visit even if you are not in the market for DVDs.  They provide free samples running several minutes each.  This reviewer initially thought "...this is an interesting web site, but I am probably not going to make a purchase".  I ultimately purchased several DVDs and intend to own them all.  The web site free previews are worth the trip to the site.  We suggest screening the previews with stereo headphones in a darkened room.  The sample picture size is relatively small depending on your monitor, but the sound track is as magnificent as any home theater could produce.

In the words of Al Worden, Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot, "You really have done a great job and great service to all who remember that era...". They have also done a great service for young people who never lived in a world in which man had not achieved space flight or walked on the moon. SPACECRAFT FILMS is promising future coverage of additional space projects, including the X-15 and Mercury Programs. But don't take my word, see for yourself.