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Season 45 Episode 17 - Apollo's Daring Mission
Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon. The U.S. space program suffered a bitter setback when Apollo 1 ended in a deadly fire during a pre-launch run-through. In disarray, and threatened by the prospect of a Soviet Union victory in the space race, NASA decided upon a radical and risky change of plan: turn Apollo 8 from an earth-orbit mission into a daring sprint to the moon while relying on untried new technologies. Fifty years after the historic mission, the Apollo 8 astronauts and engineers recount the feats of engineering that paved the way to the moon.
Episodes in Season 45
Black Hole Apocalypse
55 min
The Impossible Flight
55 min
First Face of America
55 min
Great Escape at Dunkirk
55 min
Prediction by the Numbers
55 min
Decoding the Weather Machine
55 min
Rise of the Superstorms
55 min
Transplanting Hope
55 min
Operation Bridge Rescue
55 min
Volatile Earth: Volcano on Fire
55 min
Volatile Earth: Volcano on the Brink
55 min
Addiction
55 min
Flying Supersonic
55 min
Last B-24
55 min
Thai Cave Rescue
55 min
World's Fastest Animal
55 min
Apollo's Daring Mission
55 min
NOVA Wonders What Are Animals Saying?
55 min
NOVA Wonders What's Living in You?
55 min
NOVA Wonders Are We Alone?
55 min
NOVA Wonders Can We Build a Brain?
55 min
NOVA Wonders Can We Make Life?
55 min
NOVA Wonders What's the Universe Made Of?
55 min
