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April 19, 1998

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From the Earth to the Moon - S1 - E5

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.

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From the Earth to the Moon: Season 1 - 12 Episode s

1x1 - Can We Do This?
April 5, 1998
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.
1x2 - Apollo 1
April 5, 1998
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.
1x3 - We Have Cleared The Tower
April 12, 1998
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.
1x4 - 1968
April 12, 1998
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.
1x5 - Spider
April 19, 1998
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.
1x6 - Mare Tranquilitatis
April 19, 1998
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.
1x7 - That's All There Is
April 26, 1998
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.
1x8 - We Interrupt This Program
April 26, 1998
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.
1x9 - For Miles And Miles
May 3, 1998
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.
1x10 - Galileo Was Right
May 3, 1998
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.
1x11 - The Original Wives' Club
May 10, 1998
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.
1x12 - Le Voyage dans la Lune
May 10, 1998
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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From the Earth to the Moon - S1 - E5

From the Earth to the Moon: Season 1 - 12 Episode s

1x1 - Can We Do This?

1x2 - Apollo 1

1x3 - We Have Cleared The Tower

1x4 - 1968

1x5 - Spider

1x6 - Mare Tranquilitatis

1x7 - That's All There Is

1x8 - We Interrupt This Program

1x9 - For Miles And Miles

1x10 - Galileo Was Right

1x11 - The Original Wives' Club

1x12 - Le Voyage dans la Lune

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