Talk:From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)

Spoiler
This is a documentary, not a fictional story. I don't think a spoiler is appropriate. You'll notice The Civil War (documentary) doesn't have a spoiler warning. Chuck 08:47, 16 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Both Spoiler warning and Spoiler (media) define a spoiler in terms of a "narrative", there is no indication of documentary/fiction. I think that From the Earth to the Moon would certainly constitute a narrative. One article without a spoiler tag doesn't mean anything; I'm sure there is a fictional movie article that lacks a spoiler tag, does that mean we should remove spoiler tags from all fictional movie articles? Qutezuce 09:42, 16 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Beside the fact that the spoiler looks hideous, and is not a Wikipedia policy, there is no reason to "censor" (because that's essentially what it is) information about historical events. This is an encyclopedia. Chuck 10:05, 16 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Looks fine to my eyes, and it is not censoring, the information is there, no one is stopping anyone from reading it. There are no spoiler tags on pages about historical events; this is a page about a creative work that is about a historical event. And (if we're going down this road) it is not Wikipedia policy not to have a spoiler tag. Qutezuce 10:16, 16 April 2006 (UTC)


 * You're right, no policy either way, which there should be (but that's not this discussion). I don't think that the information in this article right now displays any plot endings or details either. The information next to the episodes list are mere plot introductions. In Wikipedia, plot introductions are not characterized with spoilers. Chuck 10:49, 16 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Good point, you should have brought that up earlier. :) Qutezuce 05:28, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Influence on the 2004 decision

 * Is there any documented influence of this miniseries on the decision to go back to the Moon ? Hektor 10:17, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:From the Earth to the Moon DVD.JPG
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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:00, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Merger proposal
The Casting From the Earth to the Moon page has been proposed for deletion. While I agree that the subject probably doesn't deserve a page in itself, it would be a shame to lose this content so I suggest it be merged into its own section here. 89.238.159.201 (talk) 02:53, 10 July 2010 (UTC)


 * The page was deleted without the information being copied over. To resurrect the information, you'll have to request a temporary undeletion.  In the mean time, I'm going to remove the Cast section from this article.  David Bailey (talk) 12:36, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Why would anyone do that? Just delete an entire article without at the least putting up the info on the talk page here? And then do something as abominably stupid as ALSO remove the cast information from THIS article. It's like you're going out of your way to make WP suck.139.48.25.60 (talk) 21:31, 9 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Undeletion has been requested. Now what? I seem to recall quite a lot of good information being in the deleted material - and if editors expanded the material, yes, it could have been an article on its own. Which was the reason it was moved to its own page to begin with. Score yet one more "victory" for the deletionists.139.48.25.60 (talk) 21:47, 11 August 2010 (UTC)


 * @139.48.25.60: The Cast section in this article consisted solely of a link to the deleted page, which is why I removed it. Once the page is restored, copy the content into this article, save it and then mark the Casting page as ready for deletion using a WP:SPEEDY template.  Remember to add a reason to the template explaining the situation. David Bailey (talk) 21:40, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Casting From the Earth to the Moon
Here's a link to a "facsimile" of the content of the Casting From the Earth to the Moon article: WorldLingo: Casting From the Earth to the Moon.

I'm including a text version of this article below because I don't have time to add and edit this info to the article now, and I think it would be a shame if the info were lost in the meantime. Mingjai (talk) 21:09, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Aspect ratio
Was the original series really shot in 1.33 aspect ratio? If so, the earlier DVD edition does not necessarily show the entire picture. Comparing the 1998 version with The Signature Edition it looks as though the CGI scenes may have been created in 1.33 and later cropped, but live action sequences look more complex. The Signature Edition certainly loses detail top and bottom but often gains some detail left and right.

Episode 6 title
A short while ago, I edited the title of the sixth episode of the series to read "Mare Tranquilitatis". I did this based on the episode 6 title placard as seen in the 2009 Region 1 DVD release. It now occurs to me that the placard may have had the double "L" in Tranquillitatis in other regions. If that is the case, perhaps the double "L" spelling would be better. Perhaps someone with a Region 2 release could chime in? Aviin (talk) 07:40, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The R2 version has one 'L' also, though the word should really have two; for whatever reason the series has erroneously used one. NASA uses two, because that is the correct way to spell it in Latin. There is no "standard", nor is there an American-Latin form that trims double-Ls to one L as found in many American-English words of their British counterparts, which might have been the case had the English name "Sea of Tranquillity" been used as the title. It was probably an oversight by the producers which should not have slipped through given the nature of the series. 81.110.148.89 (talk) 15:52, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Maybe the "missing letter" was intentional. There was something of a "missing letter" controversy with the real Apollo 11 mission. 98.164.67.198 (talk) 05:41, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Episode 11 Description
Let me begin by saying that I haven’t seen the mini series (which is why I haven’t edited the article) so I don’t know if this is an error or not.

The description for the episode includes a sentence which contains “...and comforting each other in the face of tragedy as Elliot See and Ed White are killed.” This description makes it sound like one event where both men died. Elliot See died in a plane crash with Charles Bassett prior to Gemini 9, while Ed White was killed in the Apollo 1 fire.

Is this a simple case of mistaken identity (White for Bassett)? If not, the sentence should be rewritten to clarify that the episode focused on dealing with several tragic events.Lost on Belmont 3200N1000W  (talk) 02:29, 17 April 2019 (UTC)


 * There's no mistaken identity; it's clearly referring to the two separate tragedies. The wording is easily fixed. JustinTime55 (talk) 15:05, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Emmett Seaborn
Given the attention to detail in an otherwise pretty straight documentary series, is there any reason why the producers of the series felt it necessary to create the fictionalized character Emmett Seaborn? If so, should it be included in the article? JezGrove (talk) 21:16, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Look at List of From the Earth to the Moon cast members. Besides giving a dramatic continuity to the series ("Greek chorus") as it goes through the Apollo missions, Seaborn is a contributing dramatic character in the Apollo 13 episode as he is forced out by a "young buck" reporter. JustinTime55 (talk) 21:24, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, I've just watched that episode this evening. As a Brit, I thought my knowledge of US anchor men was lacking and looked him up - hence my visit to the article. But I don't understand why the producers decided to introduce a fictionalized character when everything else is so factually correct. I appreciate why the Apollo 13 mission episode avoids replicating the space drama from the film that preceded it, but to instead follow a fabricated media storyline instead seems odd. And Seaborn is a presence pretty much throughout the series. JezGrove (talk) 21:39, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * He's intended to be a composite of the most famous US TV newsmen who anchored the Apollo coverage, the most famous of which without a doubt was Walter Cronkite (and another one would have been Jules Bergman). They probably figured any flak they'd take from portraying "Uncle Walter" or Bergman wasn't worth it. And of course the fictional character gave them the freedom to make up the Seaborn / Brett Hutchins subplot. JustinTime55 (talk) 22:28, 30 July 2019 (UTC)