The series, called When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions, will include video from more than 100 hours of remastered footage of early space missions in the 1960s and 1970s.
While the original video was not shot in high-def, today's technology enables Discovery to remaster the footage for an HD production.
"No gimmicks, no photoshopping, no CGI," Discovery President John Ford said in a recent announcement for the documentary, which will air over six hours on June 8, 15, and 27. (Part one begins at 9 p.m. ET on Sunday.)
MSNBC reports that the remastered footage will also be made available to the public and researchers in NASA's archives. The three-part series will include rare footage of John Glenn's 1962 orbit around the Earth and an interview with Neil Armstrong, the first man to ever walk on the Moon.
"Today those pictures are classic," said Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, according to a NASA statement. "They're still overpowering today — to realize, No. 1, it's been done, and that we did it. It blew me away."
Discovery executive Bill Howard says the high-def restoration reveals "a lot more information on those films than whatever was seen in standard definition," USA Today reports today.
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