What We Saw | show | 2020 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Travel through time with Bill Whittle and relive key moments in American history like never before. | dHNfOE8tekthYU5rR2c

Transcript

00:00Apollo 11, this is Houston.

00:02Welcome to Apollo 11 Mission Control.

00:05Well, what's left of it anyway.

00:07The Space Race.

00:08Twelve years of open warfare between two superpowers.

00:11The United States and the Soviet Union.

00:14We used our best missiles, our best pilots.

00:16Scientists and engineers.

00:17We employed aircraft carriers, radar stations,

00:20all the military hardware we had to defeat our ideological nemesis.

00:25When each team had over 20,000 nuclear warheads apiece.

00:31The Space Race was the defining act of the second half of the 20th century.

00:35Time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement.

00:40Fifty years ago, men from planet Earth first set foot upon the moon.

00:44You owe it to yourself and to history to experience the space age from the inside

00:50and see how it took hundreds of small steps to get to that one giant leap.

00:56I'm Bill Whittle and this is what we saw.