American Experience · SEASON 18
Race to the Moon
Episode 2 · 2005-10-31
- Documentary
Episode overview
"Race to the Moon" chronicles Apollo 8, the first voyage to the moon. "It was an event beyond all other events," says Walter Cronkite of the December 1968 mission, which laid the groundwork for the first lunar landing seven months later. Cronkite and author Andrew Chaikin put the flight into context; astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders and their wives recall it firsthand. Says Lovell of seeing the lunar landscape, "We were like three kids looking into a candy-store window."
55 minutes
Season 18 episodes
1. Two Days in October2005-10-17
2. Race to the Moon2005-10-31
3. Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (1): Sin City2005-11-14
4. Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (2): American Mecca2005-11-15
5. John and Abigail Adams2006-01-23
6. The Nuremberg Trials2006-01-30
7. Jesse James2006-02-06
8. Hijacked2006-02-25
9. Eugene O'Neill2006-03-21
10. The Boy in the Bubble2006-04-10
11. The Alaska Pipeline2006-04-24
12. Annie Oakley2006-05-08
13. The Man Behind Hitler2006-05-22
