Name: Moon Machines
Released: 2008-07-05T17:00:00.000Z

Émission télé · Documentaire

En pleine guerre froide, John Fitzgerald Kennedy tente de conquérir la plus inaccessible des frontières : la Lune. Cette série documentaire revient sur cette formidable épopée en s'intéressant aux ingénieurs qui participèrent au projet. Des hommes de l'ombre sans qui ce rêve ne serait jamais devenu réalité.

2008 · 44m

Réalisateur Christopher Riley

ÉPISODE 1

Saturn V

German rocket scientists and young American engineers work together to create the Saturn V rocket and overtake the Soviet Union in the space race.
ÉPISODE 2

Command Module

NASA engineers build the Apollo Command Module, a pressurized compartment designed to safely house astronauts on their voyage to the moon and back.
ÉPISODE 3

Navigation

Scientists grappled with moon navigation in the days before computer code.
ÉPISODE 4

Lunar Module

The story of the engineers challenged with building what became affectionately called the Lunar Bug. A constant battle to meet the seemingly impossible demands of weight restrictions, the Lunar Module was one of the greatest engineering feats in history.
ÉPISODE 5

Spacesuits

To survive outside of a spacecraft, an new space vehicle would be required - the spacesuit. Flexible enough to allow man to function, yet provide protection from the hostility of space. Two unlikely companies from the east coast took the challenge.
ÉPISODE 6

Lunar Rover

A small group of engineers convinced NASA to build a spacecraft on wheels.