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Chasing the Moon (2019)

#1205 Documentary     Special  IMDB

6x50 min. BBC. The story of the race to the Moon, from the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 to Apollo 11, and the first man to set foot on the Moon, in 1969. 1/6 A Place Beyond the Sky (Part One). America's race to the moon begins with Soviet Russia's launch of Sputnik 1. 2/6 A Place Beyond the Sky (Part Two). How America's space exploration technology caught up with the Soviet Union's. 3/6 Earthrise (Part One). A training exercise ends in tragedy risking the future of America's entire space programme. 4/6 Earthrise (Part Two). Within two years of the Apollo 1 tragedy, America sent a manned light to the moon. 5/6 Magnificent Desolation (Part One). The space race takes a new twist as US astronauts compete to be the first man on the moon. 6/6 Magnificent Desolation (Part Two). The world gathers around its television sets to watch Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon.