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 triumphs of this precursor to Apollo.
Up Next in Season 1
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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...
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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...
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S1 Ep 8 - Was It Worth It?
Apollo was a “central project” that is generally thought to be one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind. Experts debate the positive and negative aspects of Apollo with an eye towards deciding: Was it worth the enormous costs?
