🚀 The Apollo Program

What you’ll learn

1. The Space Race BeginsUnderstand how Cold War rivalry launched the space age and set the U.S. on course for the Moon.A Soviet satellite, a first human in orbit, and a young president's audacious promise turned space into the arena of the 20th century.
2. The Machines That Made It PossibleLearn the key hardware — the Saturn V, the command module, and the lunar lander — that made a Moon landing possible.A 36-story rocket, a cone-shaped home in space, and a spindly bug-like lander together solved the impossible engineering of going to the Moon.
3. Tragedy and ResolveSee how the Apollo 1 disaster reshaped the program and how Apollo 8 became the first crewed flight to the Moon.A fire forced a complete redesign — and just a year later, three men orbited the Moon and sent home a photo that changed how we see Earth.
4. Apollo 11: The Crew and the LaunchMeet the Apollo 11 crew and witness the launch that began the first Moon landing mission.Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins rode a Saturn V off the pad on July 16, 1969, as an estimated million people watched from the Florida coast.
5. One Giant LeapRelive the first Moon landing — the descent, the first steps, and the moments on the surface.The lunar module Eagle touched down with seconds of fuel to spare, and Neil Armstrong stepped onto another world as the whole planet watched.
6. Coming Home & the LegacyFollow the return of Apollo 11 and the missions that followed, and weigh what Apollo left behind.From a Pacific splashdown to a car driving on the Moon, Apollo expanded what humans believed was possible — and its photographs still inspire.

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Grounded in trusted sources

• NASA
• Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
• Library of Congress

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