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Once Upon A Time In Space (BBC 2)
What does a chap have to do to get some attention? If you're male and white, don't bother going into space — that's not nearly glamorous enough.
U.S. airforce colonel Mike Mullane felt invisible when he was picked for the first intake of NASA's space shuttle crew in 1978, he admitted on Once Upon A Time In Space. 'I could have walked naked across that stage,' he said, 'and nobody would have seen it because they were all focused on those women and African-American astronauts... and mostly the women.'
TV chat show hosts were incredulous at the notion of a female astronaut. One woman bit back her indignation as a 1970s interviewer demanded, 'What happens when you meet a man and you say, "I'm an astronaut?" Does he say, "You're too cute to be an astronaut? Come on, little lady — you can't be an astronaut!"'
Half a century later, not a great deal has changed. The first hour of this four-part documentary about the history of space exploration was heavily weighted towards two stories — those of Ron McNair, the son of a Harlem mechanic, and Anna Fisher, the first mother to go into orbit.
Anna was so dedicated to the training programme that, three days after giving birth to daughter Kristin, she was back at NASA, preparing for her first flight.
'I love my baby and I love work and I wanted to go back,' she declared to disapproving reporters. The press focus on her was doubled because her husband Bill was also an astronaut.
Interviewed as an adult, Kristin admitted she found all the excitement around the space programme, 'all very routine, boring even,' until she went to college.
Then, at a party in her dorm, she took magic mushrooms and had an epiphany — 'like a full psychedelic moment, where I was like, "Holy s**t, my parents are astronauts!"'
What stoked media unease at the thought of a young mother on a shuttle mission was not a chauvinistic assumption that they'd be less able than men, but an awareness of the dangers.
Science nerds assume that the public fascination with space exploration is fuelled by an urge to see humanity expand its frontiers. I suspect it's more visceral than that.
We watch the take-offs, the spacewalks and splashdowns, knowing these adventurers are always a split-second from death. That's why films such as Apollo 13 and Gravity are fixated on the imminent disasters, not the scientific breakthroughs.
Dr McNair was a physics specialist in the doomed Challenger launch in 1986. This documentary replayed footage of the shuttle's explosion, without dwelling on it.
But his older brother Carl, choking up as he talked, described how he learned of Ron's death from news reports, and how impossible it was to escape seeing the disaster replayed countless times on TV.
We rarely hear about astronauts' families, and this show changed that.