Sunday July 21st, 10pm NOVA: APOLLO'S DARING MISSION Science/History - Astronauts and engineers of Apollo 8 explain the inside story of the first mission to circumnavigate the moon. https://youtu.be/0Ck4lg1FERIApollo 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 untried 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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