Inside the Moon Landing: Disaster and Triumph (Full Episode) | Apollo: Back to the Moon | Nat Geo

Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, this first episode of two-part documentary Apollo: Back to the Moon from National Geographic charts the first chapter of the NASA Moon landing program, from the disaster of Apollo 1 to the triumph of Apollo 8. Follow the Apollo lunar landing program from the inside, as never seen before. This series blends fiction, 3D, and digitized archives to retrace the successes and setbacks of Project Apollo, revealing the space program’s last secrets.

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