Apollos Daring Mission

Movie"Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of the first manned mission to the moon"
Audience Score
55
NR 54 minHistory, Documentary
Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8 the first manned mission to the moon The US space program suffered a bitter setback when Apollo 1 ended in a deadly fire during a prelaunch runthrough 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 earthorbit 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

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Original Language:English