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Season 45 · Episode 17
Landed Wed, 26 Dec 2018 · 21:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m
Season 45, Episode 17 of NOVA aired Wednesday, 26 December 2018 at 9pm ET on PBS.
- S45E17Apollo's Daring MissionApollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon. The U.S. space program suffered a bitter setback when Apollo 1 ended in a deadly fire during a pre-launch run-through. 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 Earth-orbit mission into a daring sprint to the moon while relying on untested 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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