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About 40 people attended the event, which was sponsored by the Fourth Annual Women in Technology Mini-Conference and the Harvard Education Forum...
...worry over the winds on the day of lift-off. Surely, if three men are going to sit on a skyscraper-size tube of rocket fuel and then be sent into space for 11 days, there must be more exciting matters to dwell on. In general, the mini-series fails to give the viewer a good sense of the purposes and risks of the missions. That's not surprising, since scientific information is so hard to convey in a drama. The result, though, is that we don't appreciate the challenges NASA faced or the ingenious ways it met them...
...extravagantly ambitious and costly project Hanks has dreamed up is From the Earth to the Moon, a 12-part mini-series for HBO that tells the story of NASA from the first Mercury mission in 1961 to the last flight to the moon in 1972. It will be shown in one-hour episodes on various dates over a six-week period, beginning this Sunday, April 5, at 8 p.m. E.T. Hanks, who starred in the movie Apollo 13 in 1995 and has had a lifelong interest in space, conceived and oversaw the production. It was an extremely complicated undertaking, involving...
...result? Based on the five parts available for viewing, this mini-series is anything but a vanity project. Rather, it is a diligent, well-crafted work that never spins out of control despite its grandiose conception. And yet, as anyone with an ear for faint praise can tell by now, it is pretty dull. That may seem hard to believe, given the subject matter--space exploration!--but watching From the Earth to the Moon induces a state of cognitive dissonance. The acting is first-rate; the details look right; still, the overall effect is boredom...
...From the Earth to the Moon tries to tell is too vast to be contained even in 12 hours. The movie Apollo 13 was a success largely because of its simple, intense narrative--guys go up in space, look as if they'll die, succeed in not dying. The mini-series is much more diffuse. Hanks and his colleagues have tried to be selective, but the smaller stories they tell either are not the right ones or are not dramatized effectively...