• 51M JUN 16, 2019 TV-PG

    S1 E1: From Sputnik to the Mercury Seven and from JFK to Ham the chimpanzee, meet the key players in the first years of the Space Race.

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Apollo's Moon Shot
In 1961, President Kennedy issued a grand challenge: to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth by the end of the decade. What followed was a series of daring missions against an almost impossible timeline on the most complicated spacecraft ever built. Revisit an era when NASA's team of engineers and astronauts gambled everything to embark on humankind's most ambitious journey, brought to life through archival interviews, rarely seen footage, and artifacts from the vaults of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
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Apollo's Moon Shot
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