From The Earth To The Moon, Can We Do This?

New astronauts undertake a series of risky and groundbreaking earth-orbit missions.

Learn about the pre-launch fire that killed astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee, severely threatening the Apollo program.

Follow the final preparations for the first manned Apollo launch.

America is deep in turmoil and social upheaval with the Vietnam War raging, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinated, urban riots exploding - and the Apollo 8 crew in historic lunar orbit during the Christmas holiday.

Learn about the lunar module, whose unique story is traced from sketch-pad origins to its shake-out during the Apollo 9 flight, in which two manned vessels linked up in space for the very first time.

The glare of the public eye, conflicts among the crew, disastrous simulations, and a series of harrowing last-minute crises threaten the Apollo 11 astronauts' success.

A jet crash that kills one of his colleagues moves rookie Alan Bean from "forgotten astronaut" to lunar module pilot on the second moon landing.

As the deadly consequences of the Apollo 13 accident escalate, so do the tensions in the NASA press corps.

America's first man in space, Alan Shepard, is grounded with an inner ear disorder.

Geology guru Lee Silver helps Dave Scott and his Apollo 15 crew unravel the moon's mysterious origins by teaching them to become his lunar surrogates.

Meet the Apollo spouses as they deal with the glare of the national spotlight during the ascendancy of women's liberation.

The bittersweet end of the Apollo program is juxtaposed with a light-hearted recreation of a 1902 film.