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From the Earth to the Moon

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  1. S1 · E1 · 5 Apr 1998 · 60 min

    Can We Do This?

    NASA responds to John F. Kennedy's challenge of landing a man on the moon with a group of new astronauts for the Gemini Program, who work toward the eventual lunar voyage with a series of risky and groundbreaking earth-orbit missions.

  2. S1 · E2 · 5 Apr 1998 · 61 min

    Apollo 1

    The tragic death of Apollo's first three astronauts during a pre-launch test haunts the spacecraft's designers, as they struggle to come to terms with what happened, and find a way to save the moon program.

  3. S1 · E3 · 12 Apr 1998 · 60 min

    We Have Cleared the Tower

    A documentary film crew follows the final preparations for the first manned Apollo launch. Now behind schedule due to the Apollo 1 fire, astronauts and launch pad personnel bet their lives--and America's space future--on its success.

  4. S1 · E4 · 12 Apr 1998 · 55 min

    1968

    NASA takes its boldest and most controversial step—an attempt to fly men around the moon and back for the first time in history—at the end of one of the most cataclysmic years of the century.

  5. S1 · E5 · 19 Apr 1998 · 57 min

    Spider

    Engineers at Grumman Aviation work with NASA and the Apollo 9 astronauts to design, build, and finally test-fly the world's first true spaceship—a “lunar module” which will hopefully land the first humans on the moon.

  6. S1 · E6 · 19 Apr 1998 · 57 min

    Mare Tranquilitatis

    The glare of the public eye, conflicts among the crew, disastrous simulations, and a series of harrowing last-minute crises threaten the Apollo 11 astronauts' success at pulling off NASA's crowning achievement—the first lunar landing.

  7. S1 · E7 · 26 Apr 1998 · 50 min

    That's All There Is

    From the perspective of Astronaut Alan Bean, see how he made an unexpected journey to the moon and his friendship with his Apollo 12 crew mates.

  8. S1 · E8 · 26 Apr 1998 · 49 min

    We Interrupt This Program

    As the life-threatening consequences of the Apollo 13 accident escalate in real time, so do the tensions among the NASA press corps covering it. Among them, a respected, old-school TV journalist questions the confrontational methods of a younger, slicker colleague.

  9. S1 · E9 · 3 May 1998 · 50 min

    For Miles and Miles

    America's first man in space, Alan Shepard, is grounded with an inner ear disorder. A thankless new desk job starts to look permanent, until fate—and surgery—bring him a chance to rescue the space program.

  10. S1 · E10 · 3 May 1998 · 56 min

    Galileo Was Right

    Geology guru Lee Silver helps Dave Scott and his Apollo 15 crew unravel the moon's mysterious origins by teaching them to become his lunar surrogates, and thus the first fully-trained “field observers” on another world.

  11. S1 · E11 · 10 May 1998 · 58 min

    The Original Wives' Club

    A group of young military wives struggle with their new “jobs” handling both the national spotlight and a demanding home front. Meanwhile, their astronaut husbands lose themselves in the pursuit of a national goal alternately competitive, glamorous, and deadly.

  12. S1 · E12 · 10 May 1998 · 60 min

    Le Voyage dans la Lune

    The bittersweet end of the Apollo program—and the final manned journey to another planet—is juxtaposed with a light-hearted recreation of the first cinematic imagining of such an endeavor, the 1902 French silent classic “Voyage to the Moon.”

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