Rocket Science
Regular season Director's cuts - two (2) episodes per disc:

The Rocketeers
The history of the X series of aircraft, from Chuck Yeager’s Bell X-1 - the plane that broke the sound barrier - to the men who flew into space and back aboard the X-15.

The Last Empty Sky
Robert Goddard’s under-funded, largely ignored 1920s development of liquid-fueled rockets paralleled Werner Von Braun’s civilian rocket club, which ultimately created Hitler’s V2 rockets. At war’s end, Von Braun and fellow captured scientists are invited to continue their experiments at America’s White Sands Missile Range - using their own left-over V2s.

The High Ground
Reaction to Sputnik finally spins the American program into high gear. The Space Task Group is formed at Langley AFB, establishing a viable lunar landing plan long before the first human flies in space. Von Braun and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory launch America’s satellite. NASA is formed and recruits its first seven astronauts.

Mercury Rising
Yuri Gagarin beats Alan Shepard into space by three weeks. Project Mercury creates instant heroes and awakens a new national purpose. The race for the moon begins.

Missiles to the Moon
The misslies of the Cold War are utilized to launch Mercury and Gemini astronauts into orbit. Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov and American astronaut Ed White perform the first space walks.

The Learning Curve
Project Gemini allows NASA to develop techniques that will take them to the moon. Wally Schirra, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan and others practise rendezvous, docking and extra-vehicular skills. Frank Borman and James Lovell investigate long-term spaceflight by enduring two weeks in orbit confined to an area smaller than the front seat of a VW Beetle.

"Go Fever!"
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee die in a flash fire during a routine countdown rehearsal at the cape. The investigation reveals errors and ommisions that reshape the Apollo program. The launch of the re-designed Apollo 7 spacecraft restores American confidence and sets NASA on course for the moon.

Ten Times Faster Than a Rifle Bullet
Werner von Braun captures the public’s imagination with his futuristic visions of space travel. As NASA gears up for the moon, Von Braun launches his masterpiece - the 6 million pound, 25,000 MPH Saturn Five rocket.

"We Choose to go to the Moon..."
Work slowly progresses on the Lunar Module, a two-man tinfoil spacecraft light enough to carry men to the surface of the moon. Unexpected delays in the completion of the LM prompt a radical change in NASA mission plans. Apollo 8 enters Lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, 1968 – a revelation that inspires the world.

Before This Decade is Out
What it finally took - near-fatal crashes in the Lunar Lander Training Vehicle and the Apollo 10 rehearsal flight, the fiery end of the Soviet lunar program - to land Armstrong and Aldrin on the surface of the moon - live on worldwide TV.

The Universe Strikes Back
Apollo 12 is struck by lightning two minutes after lift-off. With mission Control's aid the crew saves their powerless craft and laughs about it all the way to the moon. After surviving an equally unnerving liftoff, Apollo 13 suffers a catastrphic explosion 200,000 miles from home and heading in the wrong direction. Suddenly Mission Control has a new mission.

The Last Man on the Moon
Public apathy and Congressional budget cuts chip away at the Apollo program. With only three missions left, newly recruited geologist-astronauts lobby for the few remaining seats. NASA, in conjunction with teams from the U.S. Geological Survey and numerous universities, sets out to do real science in an incredibly harsh laboratory, despite protests from some of the fighter jock astronauts. The story of the "J" missions, Apollo 15 through 17, as told by Gene Cernan - the last man to walk on the moon.

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