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BROWSING SEASON 1 OF THE TV SERIES CHASING THE MOON (2019)

A Place Beyond the Sky - Part 1
Chasing The Moon (2019) - A Place Beyond the Sky - Part 1
Season 1 - Episode 1

Show Description On 4 October 1957, Soviet scientists launched Sputnik 1 - a beach ball-sized, radio-transmitting aluminium alloy sphere - into orbit. The satellite caused a sensation. Amid Cold War tensions, the Soviet Unions accomplishment signalled a dramatic technological advantage and American felt it had little choice but to join the Space Race.Then on 12 April 1961, the Soviets sealed their advantage when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth. John F Kennedy, the newly elected president, was faced with the issue of how to respond. Two days later, he called a meeting to find an American space programme that would promise equally dramatic results. Rocket manufacturer, and former Nazi, Wernher von Braun, convinced Kennedy that the Americans could beat the Russians to the Moon before the decade was out and the Saturn programme was born.
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A Place Beyond the Sky - Part 2
Chasing The Moon (2019) - A Place Beyond the Sky - Part 2
Season 1 - Episode 2

Show Description Under von Brauns leadership, Americas technology finally seemed to be catching up with the Soviet Unions. On 5 May 1961, von Brauns Redstone rocket successfully launched American navy test pilot Alan Shepard 116 vertical miles up into space. The American space programme grew rapidly.On 20 February 1962, a marine colonel named John Glenn successfully orbited the Earth. Nasa and Wernher von Braun were at last delivering real results. Sputniks challenge and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarins groundbreaking feat had been equalled. But the young president would never live to see man walk on the moon. On 22 November 1963 in Dallas, Texas, Kennedy was assassinated and Cape Canaveral, home to US space exploration, was quickly renamed Cape Kennedy, in honour of the fallen visionary.
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Earthrise - Part 1
Chasing The Moon (2019) - Earthrise - Part 1
Season 1 - Episode 3

Show Description What exactly was it going to take for America to beat the Soviets to the moon? Cold War tensions persisted, as rumours circulated that the Soviets were preparing to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon. Nasa quickly developed the Gemini program, sending astronauts into orbit around the Earth to practice critical manoeuvres for the eventual trip to the moon.Nasas next-generation spacecraft, Apollo 1, was meant to dramatically launch the new era. Virgil Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were Apollos very first crew. On a cool January day in Florida, in 1967, the three men suited up for a pre-launch training run in the new command capsule. Two and a half hours through the training, somewhere in the closed capsule, a fire broke out. The hatch design opened inwards and all three men perished. Mission control was powerless. The disaster shook the nation and left the future of Apollo, Nasa and the entire race to the moon in doubt. The cost perhaps was too high.
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Earthrise - Part 2
Chasing The Moon (2019) - Earthrise - Part 2
Season 1 - Episode 4

Show Description In the aftermath of the deadly Apollo 1 fire, Nasa faced harsh scrutiny. The horror of the first casualties at Cape Kennedy led Americans to increasingly question the very premise of landing a man on the moon. Yet again, it was the Cold War that gave Nasas mission new urgency and life.Amid concerns that the Soviets might exploit the hiatus to overtake the Americans, less than a year after the fatal Apollo 1 fire, the nation gathered on 21 December 1968, to watch as Apollo 8 lifted off and headed for the moon. Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman recalls, My odds for mission success were a hundred percent. If I didnt think I was coming back, I wasnt going to go. The rest of America, Bormans wife and children included, gathered nervously to watch the televised live broadcast as the Saturn V launched into orbit around the Earth and then took three men out of the gravitational pull of their home planet for the very first time.
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Magnificent Desolation - Part 1
Chasing The Moon (2019) - Magnificent Desolation - Part 1
Season 1 - Episode 5

Show Description After the immediate celebration of 1968s successful Apollo 8 mission, underlying questions about the space programme emerged with new intensity as politicised young Americans challenged the nations priorities. Nasa pushed brashly forward.After the lunar orbit, competition escalated among the training astronauts. Who would be chosen for the first moon landing? In January 1969, Nasa ended months of speculation and announced the crew for Apollo 11. Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong would be in the craft that landed on the moon. They would be supported by Mike Collins in the command module. As ever, the Soviet Union loomed large over the new Nasa mission, scheduling an unmanned craft to land on the moon at approximately the same time as Apollo 11.
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Magnificent Desolation - Part 2
Chasing The Moon (2019) - Magnificent Desolation - Part 2
Season 1 - Episode 6

Show Description Viewers from around the world watched the flickering black-and-white footage from a camera placed on the module showing Armstrong gingerly stepping down its ladder. OK, Im going to step off the ladder now, Armstrong said. Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Fifteen minutes later, Aldrin followed. Transparent, ghostly images of the suited figures projected back to Earth where crowds cheered, wept and fell speechless at the awe-inspiring sight of their fellow human beings on the moon.
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