Ordinary Supermen

8.4/10 · 89 votesJun 8, 200848 min

Ranked #2 of 6 in Season 1•+0.1 vs season avg

NASA selects seven men to become the first astronauts. They're all test pilots, prepared to risk their lives. No one has ever survived a vertical launch on top of a rocket, but it's the only way they know to put an astronaut into earth orbit.

Season 1 Episodes6

Ordinary Supermen

Friends and Rivals

Landing the Eagle

The Explorers

The Shuttle

Home In Space

Cast2

Gary Sinise

Self - Narrator

Eugene Cernan

Self

Crew12

Patrick Matthews

Film Processor

Cliff Jones

Mixing Engineer

Christine Virgin

Production Coordinator

John Terp

Coordinating Producer

Bill Howard

Executive Producer

Peter Parnham

Head of Production

Amy Kagelmacher

Assistant Production Manager

Chris Riley

Consulting Producer

Carrie Pennifer

Production Manager

John Halliday

Director of Photography

Tim Watts

Sound Recordist

REx Ellis

Archival Footage Research

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Episode Summary

"Ordinary Supermen" is episode 1 of When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions season 1. It scored 8.4/10 from 89 votes, ranking #2 of 6 episodes this season (season average 8.3). Directed by Grace Chapman, Mary Crisp and written by Ed Fields, it aired on June 8, 2008.

Ordinary Supermen

Seasons1

Season 1 Episodes6

Cast2

Crew12

Discussion

Episode Summary