American Experience
Season 18 Episode 2 - Race to the Moon
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
"Race to the Moon" chronicles Apollo 8, the first voyage to the moon. "It was an event beyond all other events," says Walter Cronkite of the December 1968 mission, which laid the groundwork for the first lunar landing seven months later. Cronkite and author Andrew Chaikin put the flight into context; astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders and their wives recall it firsthand. Says Lovell of seeing the lunar landscape, "We were like three kids looking into a candy-store window."
Episodes in Season 18
1
Two Days in October
55 min
2
Race to the Moon
55 min
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3
Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (1): Sin City
55 min
4
Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (2): American Mecca
55 min
5
John and Abigail Adams
55 min
6
The Nuremberg Trials
55 min
7
Jesse James
55 min
8
Hijacked
55 min
9
Eugene O'Neill
55 min
10
The Boy in the Bubble
55 min
11
The Alaska Pipeline
55 min
12
Annie Oakley
55 min
13
The Man Behind Hitler
55 min
