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New TV Series Recounts Space Exploration History With The Astronauts Who Journeyed There

Once Upon a Time in Space examines humans’ first tentative steps at extended-duration extraplanetary journeys.

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When people think of the space program, most Baby Boomers of a certain age recall the dramatic lunar landings of the Apollo program, which ended more than half a century ago. Younger Americans who watched the Artemis II mission earlier this year might contemplate the extraplanetary travel that NASA has planned for the decade ahead.

But between the first race to the moon and our current attempts to move beyond low-Earth orbit lay a critical transitional epoch. In the decades before and after the end of the Cold War, travel in outer space became, if not exactly common — only about 800 individuals have traveled into space as of this writing — more democratized. Humans also engaged in important research about the long-term effects of life in zero gravity that will prove essential for travel to more distant destinations.

James Bluemel, who directed first-person documentaries about conflicts in Iraq and Northern Ireland, reprised the genre with a more upbeat topic. In Once Upon a Time in Space, Bluemel shines a light on a period that, while unheralded and marred by several tragedies, also paved the way for future exploration of other worlds.

Catastrophes (Barely) Avoided

The series’ second episode, which examines the Shuttle-Mir missions conducted between American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts, explores the challenges associated with long-duration space travel. One batch of difficulties came from Mir itself, as the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the Russian Republic nearly bankrupt. NASA........

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