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Before Apollo, there was Gemini, and before Gemini, there was the Mercury program. This episode examines Mercury, the first U.S. program to put a man in space. It looks at the people, such as astronaut John Glenn, the events, such as Alan Shephard’s first flight to low earth orbit, and the triumphs of this precursor to Apollo.
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This episode chronicles several of the major decisions that define the Apollo mission including: the decision to use a lunar module that detached from the command module rather than one giant spaceship landing on the moon; the decision to have Neil Armstrong be the “first man,” and the controversy around it; the decision to move forward after a horrific fire took the lives of three astronauts; and the surprising decision on who should be the first astronauts.
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This episode features the important “firsts” of the Apollo program. From the first satellite launched by the Soviets called Sputnik; To the first man who flew in space named Yuri Gagarin; The first spacewalk to the first live broadcast in space, many of the monumental achievements of the space race are documented.
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This episode captures Apollo’s most amazing audio moments ever recorded, including the famous John F. Kennedy speech at Rice University where he inspires the nation to reach the moon; Kennedy’s never-before-heard private audio in which he voices his doubts about sending a man to the moon; and the first spectacular pictures of Earth ever taken from the moon.
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