James Burke The other side of the moon 1979

This is mean-spirited garbage with a strong element of British sour grapes.

Honestly I love the music in this program. It’s proper early 80s stuff.

The interviews and discussions with the lunar scientists are fascinating, I've never seen those before. I didn't realize how much they learned from those samples brought back. Also, that interview where the astronauts were arguing about the program on camera is something you rarely see, certainly never see with astronauts who are still with NASA, which tightly controls its public image. I got more insight into their personalities and interrelationships in that little snippet than I could ever get from a rehashed history book. Great documentary, high quality, lots of info, no stupid music or overdramatizations, and the legendary Mr. Burke, top notch stuff here.

One ***** giant leap

President Eisenhower was very concerned about "the military industrial complex" and war profiteering. That was a big reason why he was initially hesitant about the "space race" and was a proponent for the civilian run NASA.✌🏽

When men were REAL MEN!!!!! Now they are skinny jean wearing Peter pans so disappointing

dudes kickin that sweet butterfly collar polyester suit...!

Right..... the moon landing.... Fun tale.

It has bean more then 50 years and we shall return before this dacade us out.

I’ve thought a lot about Mr. Webb this year.

My only two remaining family members died, The terrible political environment, Covid crisis……..

as a man of science my entire life, the web telescope was the only good news the past few years that didn’t totally shit the bed.

I followed its development much closer than I normally would have. It was one of the few things to help keep me distracted while I spent well over 200 nights next to my mom’s hospital bed.


I’m in my mid 30s ….and I’m pretty sure I hadn’t cried a single time in the last 25 years.

But with family passing and gone….. about the same time of Webb’s scope launch/ incredible deployment…
idk….It was a great treat in such a hard time of turmoil.

Seriously? That ending with no Carl Sagan?!?

The worlds most underrated presenter, journalist and all round top person of a generation.

As soon as ur fycking advert came after just 1 mini left. Fuck u

Just like the actual other side of the moon... Dark and cold.

I thought I had watched every Burke program. I was wrong. Thanks for posting this!

Thanks for uploading this. I would have watched this when first broadcast with my Father and oldest Brother as they were both space nuts as was I. This made me think of days gone by and family that I lost along the way so thanks once again for providing me with entertainment and fond memories.

My professors making us write a 500 word essay on this film. Its a very good film

"There were no votes in science"
Saddest thing about this? There still aren't.

Its now 2023 putting a man on the Moon today is like reading a Jules Verne novel (science fiction). I'm 55 I've always believed they went to the Moon, but with he carry on that's happening today about doing it again I'm beginning to question my belief.

This guy would be an excellent college professor and lecturer... He can hold your interest.

At 45.31 James Burke says that the Lunar Samples provided no evidence of Water on the Moon & the water in one of the samples was as a result of contamination on Earth.
Flash forward to 2023 and we now know that there are millions of tons of water on the Moon, mainly in craters with permanent shadows but also in areas exposed to sunlight during the Lunar Day.

It’s a shame that more people never saw either seasons of “Connections” by James Burke
One of the smartest thing that Ike did was to take NASA out of the military’s hands.

James Burke was the expert of Space on British television much like Carl Segan was to America later. He was much the pioneer from the stuffiness aloof that went before. His " Tomorrow's World" contributions and presentations were also out of this World. Greatly missed these days .

Well hopefully we start making up for time lost

what did that Clausewitz guy write, "...no logical limit to the application of force..."

Kennedy was never convinced of the idea of sending a man to the moon by the end of the 60's, despite what he said in his May 1961 speech.

Most people dont know that alot of the earliest video from the moon was very fuzzy looking not because of bad engineering but because of bad planning!! The cameras on the moon were just perfect and the signal sent to the earth were perfect BUT on the earth where the signals were supposed to go directly to the tv stations the wiring to do it had never been installed so what we all saw live from the moon was from a camera at nasa pointed at a ordinary computer monitor.!!!!

James Burke, a very talented presenter. As for landing on the Moon....

Don't forget Tang and peanut butter and chocolate flavoured space food sticks.

Just superb. Exposes today's junk as the comedy half hour it really is.

Fake hollywood nonsense.

Fantastic stuff 👍

The voice tapes of the Apollo 1 fire were eventually released and it proved NASA was lying through its teeth

Ah, politics.
Always the truth gets buried --- on purpose ---
and replaced by a propaganda-based story.

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I generally like James Burke but no, Apollo 11 did not "come close to disaster". The program alarms during the landing were understood to be caused by executive overflow almost immediately, thanks to Jack Garman in the back room who knew all the alarm codes and categories. He had written himself a cheat sheet in fact. The cause was unknown, but it WAS known that the anomalous figure of an atitude rate of -2900 feet per second, before the landing radar algorithm converged, was immediately followed by the first alarm. So the ground told them not to bring up the program which displayed the delta-H - "We'll monitor your delta-H" (altitude rate). And on ascent, similar efforts were made to not overburden the primary guidance computer, and there were no alarms. As for the flurry of alarms during the approach phase, they were never outside the abort limits and there was no additional danger than in a normal mission. The one really puckering problem occurred right after landing, when a slug of helium froze in the vent line for the unused descent fuel and oxidizer. This caused a rapid buildup of pressure and an explosion in the descent stage was a real possibility. However it soon relieved itself, and it was thought that the fail-safe mechanism had worked - the line was designed to fracture in such an event. It turned out that the slug had just melted and normal flow resumed.

That moment where Gene Krantz struggles to decide what Apollo 11 meant 'personally' is just infectious. The signs of a high-caliber leader, right there. It's about the team and he openly chuckles when asked to be a little bit selfish. Great man.

a splendid chap James Burke, my childhood.

Middle aged balding white man who talks about substantive issues. He would never get a lookin on TV now.

Impressive. I think USA is too stupid now to do this kind of stuff

I watched Burke's law as a kid it was one best cop shows at the time.

I vividly remember how jubilant we all were when they first landed on the Moon, but I also vividly remember thinking hey, that was the easy part! They still have to get back! Thankfully, they did. I still think it's the most amazing thing humanity has ever done.

Apollo was without a doubt my favorite time of my life of 81 plus years! Probably because I was a science fiction reader and I spent a lot of spare time reading SF, mainly because this was before video games, vcr machines and computers. But when Apollo was cancelled, a little of that excitement faded. But now that man exploration of the Moon and Mars is in vogue again, the old flame is starting to get brighter.