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Throughout history, mankind has dreamed of touching the stars. With the Apollo program, America turned that dream into reality. This exclusive 12-Part HBO Miniseries Event tells the full story of the Apollo space program, from the 1961 Presidential challenge that inspired it to the 1969-72 lunar voyages that defined it.

1998 · 59m

Starring Tom Hanks, David Frankel, Nick Searcy

Director Tom Hanks

EPISODE 1

Can We Do This?

NASA responds to John F. Kennedy's challenge of landing a man on the moon with a group of new astronauts for the Gemini Program, who work toward the eventual lunar voyage with a series of risky and groundbreaking earth-orbit missions.
EPISODE 2

Apollo 1

The tragic death of Apollo's first three astronauts during a pre-launch test haunts the spacecraft's designers, as they struggle to come to terms with what happened, and find a way to save the moon program.
EPISODE 3

We Have Cleared the Tower

A documentary film crew follows the final preparations for the first manned Apollo launch. Now behind schedule due to the Apollo 1 fire, astronauts and launch pad personnel bet their lives--and America's space future--on its success.
EPISODE 4

1968

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.
EPISODE 5

Spider

Engineers at Grumman Aviation work with NASA and the Apollo 9 astronauts to design, build, and finally test-fly the world's first true space ship--a 'lunar module' which will hopefully land the first humans on the moon.
EPISODE 6

Mare Tranquilitatis

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 NASA's crowning achievement--the first lunar landing.