Race to the Moon

Name: Race to the Moon
Director: Mark Everest
Released: 2005-10-05
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Stuart Bunce, Mark Dexter, Stephen Greif, Chris Robson, Rupert Wickham

S1 E4 October 5, 2005 1h 0m ★ 6.5

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Overview

Race To The Moon, spans 1964-1969. Both sides now plan to put a man on the Moon - while the Soviets struggle, the Americans pull ahead in the space race with Project Gemini, but then suffer a disaster with the Apollo 1 fire. The Soviet space programme suffers its own blows: Sergei Korolev dies when his heart fails during an operation, Soyuz 1 crashes and kills cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, and their planned moon rocket, the N-1 rocket, fails to successfully launch. In America, von Braun has difficulties with the Saturn V, but they are overcome, and the rocket successfully launches the first manned lunar mission, Apollo 8, and the first manned lunar landing, Apollo 11.