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Countdown To Apollo

S1 Ep 4 - Amiable Strangers

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  • S1 Ep 5 - Mercury 7

    Before Apollo, there was Gemini, and before Gemini, there was the Mercury program. This episode examines Mercury, the first U.S. program to put a man in space. It looks at the people, such as astronaut John Glenn, the events, such as Alan Shephard’s first flight to low earth orbit, and the triump...

  • S1 Ep 6 - The Apollo Players

    400,000 people worked in putting a man on the moon. This episode looks at some of the prominent, and not so prominent players who played their parts, including: Frank Borman and Bill Anders, astronauts of Apollo 8; Werner Von Braun, the German scientist who led the team of American scientists and...

  • S1 Ep 7 - Apollo Fact or Fiction

    This episode examines some of the popular notions surrounding the Apollo program and discerns whether they are fact or fiction. These include: were Neil Armstrong’s words when he stepped on the moon scripted by Nasa? Products such as Velcro and Teflon are thought to be invented during the space p...