Based on James Michener's epic novel, seen on NBC in 1978-79, it won numerous awards and remains a major television feat. Michener tackles the most ambitious subject of his career: space, the last great frontier. Space is one of his best books.The Wall Street Journal Already a renowned chronicler of the epic events of world history, James A. The show was directed by Joseph Sargent and Lee Philips.Spanning 200 years of land wars, love affairs, politics, profiteering, cattle drives, and revolution, this mammoth miniseries features a compelling story and an enormous cast of stars: Richard Chamberlain, Robert Conrad, Mark Harmon, Andy Griffith, Raymond Burr, Lynn Redgrave, and the list goes on. Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon. Other principal players include Astronaut John Pope (Harry Hamlin), who, after failing to win his way to Annapolis, matriculates from a Navy recruit to a naval officer, Naval Aviator, test pilot and pioneering astronaut in the company of fellow space-traveler Randy Claggett (Beau Bridges) Penny Hardesty Pope (Blair Brown), an ambitious and beautiful counsel to Senator Grant since his election and wife of John Pope Leopold Strabismus (David Dukes), a hedonistic wheeler-dealer who hopes to capitalize on the 1947 UFO scare German rocket scientist Dieter Kolff (Michael York), whose ideals (or lack thereof) are put to the test when he shifts his allegiance from the Nazis to the Americans and Stanley Mott (Bruce Dern), an aeronautical engineer whose secret assignment is to make certain that men like Kolff aren't snatched up by the Soviets after the fall of Germany. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prizewinning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michner's fictional account of the American space program from the years after World War II to the Apollo landings on the moon in the early 1970s. The Wall Street Journal Already a renowned chronicler of the epic events of world history, James A. Already a renowned chronicler of the epic events of world history, James A. Solve them, and everything else falls into place. Michener tackles the most ambitious subject of his career: space, the last great frontier. Space is one of his best books.The Wall Street Journal. The only morality that makes sense is to do something useful with the brief time we’re allotted. Michener writes in a semi-documentary style. It tell the story of Norman Grant (James Garner), a former war hero turned senator who tirelessly promotes the American space program despite almost insurmountable opposition. Space (1985) A 13-hour mini-series detailing James A. Michener, 1982, Random House edition, in English - 1st ed. It is a fictionalized history of the United States space program, with a particular emphasis on human spaceflight.
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