From the Earth to the Moon

The tragic death of Apollos first three astronauts during a pre-launch test haunts the spacecrafts designers, as they struggle to come to terms with what happened, and find a way to save the moon program.

NASA takes its boldest and most controversial step—an attempt to fly men around the moon and back for the first time in history—at the end of one of the most cataclysmic years of the century.

The glare of the public eye, conflicts among the crew, disastrous simulations, and a series of harrowing last-minute crises threaten the Apollo 11 astronauts success at pulling off NASAs crowning achievement—the first lunar landing.

As the life-threatening consequences of the Apollo 13 accident escalate in real time, so do the tensions among the NASA press corps covering it. Among them, a respected, old-school TV journalist questions the confrontational methods of a younger, slicker colleague.

Geology guru Lee Silver helps Dave Scott and his Apollo 15 crew unravel the moons mysterious origins by teaching them to become his lunar surrogates, and thus the first fully-trained “field observers” on another world.

The bittersweet end of the Apollo program—and the final manned journey to another planet—is juxtaposed with a light-hearted recreation of the first cinematic imagining of such an endeavor, the 1902 French silent classic “Voyage to the Moon.”