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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0738825171192
Format: Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, NTSC
Label: Little Mammoth Media
Manufacturer: Little Mammoth Media
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Little Mammoth Media
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 01, 2003
Running Time: 50 minutes
Studio: Little Mammoth Media
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This video from the wise Big Adventure series gives kids a great overview of the space program using simple graphics, a soundtrack featuring kids' questions, and plenty of footage not seen on TV. The film follows one space crew through selection, training, and flight, providing some amazing facts about the mass of the space shuttle. Often the video goes on too long about specifics--reentry tiles, or the specific scientific experiments on board--but overall this kind of documentary has rarely been handled better. For ages 5 and up, but 3-year-old fans of space exploration will be happy to view the pictures. Parenting Magazine named it one of 1998's best videos for kids. The Big Adventure series scans a number of fascinating subjects (airplanes, aquariums, and even renovations) and is a series to seek out. --Doug Thomas
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Shocked by toddler's interest
I watched this with my 3 yr old & 2 yr old sons. It is technical enough to interest an adult, yet they were just glued to the TV the entire time!They would watch it all day if I allowed it.
The video has multiple narrators, both children, males & females. I think that keeps their interest. It also bounces quickly from one topic to the next. It discusses space camp, astronaut training, experiments in space & much more. It seems a tad dated to the adult, but kids don't pick that up. It gives all kinds of facts that you will assume are rolling right over your toddler's head until he looks up into the night sky & states "maybe we can see the shuttle...it's 180 miles up from the ground" Then they will put their toy logs together & "drop their booster rockets when the fuel is used up" & send their toy boats to save them from the ocean depths. Amazing.
Highly recommend. I only wish there were more quality children's videos like this available.
Rating: - Great for girls interested in space
I bought "The Big Space Shuttle" for my 5-year-old girl who is completely fascinated by astronauts, rockets and space travel. She loves it and thinks "it's so cool." The fact that the narrator is a child also helped keep her attention. Best of all, the pilot and payload commander of the mission are women, which helps me to emphasize to my girl that she can do anything she wants -- even fly the space shuttle!
Rating: - Blast Off on a Family Adventure
Take an adventure with NASA's Shuttle program. The big draw for this DVD is the Big Space Shuttle and perhaps the more "famous" workers in the Space Program (i.e. the astronauts), BUT this adventure introduces youngsters to a wide variety of careers that make space flight possible. See behind the scenes and learn what it takes to get an orbiter and crew into space and safely back on land.
Learn about:
* Mission Control
* Launch Control
* NASA Engineers
* How the Space Shuttle is assembled
* Complete Launch sequence
* Recovery of the SRBs (Solid Rocket Boosters) with footage of the divers and how they tow the SRBs back to shore
* Space Camp in Huntsville, AL
* and more!
As other reviewers have mentioned, this DVD was filmed prior to the tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew. There are a couple of brief mentions of this fact at the beginning and near the end of the DVD. The comment near the end mentions the complete complement of Shuttles built, the 2 losses (Challenger & Columbia) and the test orbiter, Enterprise. A note to cautious parents: these items are briefly and tastefully mentioned without any images or detail that might frighten or worry a young child viewing the DVD.
The Little Mammoth BIG Adventure series of DVD's are full of enough detail and educational insight to captivate younger children and adults alike. My son, now age 6, enjoys every BIG adventure series we have seen.
Rating: - 6 year ofd love it
Bought this for my 6 year old son who's shown an interest in space. He absolutely loves it!
Rating: - Totally Awesome!!
I searched for JUST the right dvd for my grandson's 6th B'day. He is so into space craft and outer space, the planets, etc. He knows each planet by heart and can tell you all about relevant info on any particular planet. This is why just the right video was so important. He was mesmerized as soon as it started, as well as his 4 year old brother and a little 3 year old visitor. What makes this video so entertaining is that it explains "everything" you need to know about, good for all ages, especially children, but I watched it, too, and was enthralled with it.
What a great dvd for the whole family to watch together! It is narrated by a young person, which makes it even more interesting for children.
Amazon is the best, I'm never disappointed.
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