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Three pioneering astronauts in a race to the Moon pin their hopes on an untried spacecraft riddled with problems.
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00:00Three, two, one, zero.
00:04This is the moon, man's first stop on his way to explore our solar system.
00:17To get there and return successfully is the primary objective of NASA's Project Apollo.
00:24Can we do that in nine years from a standing start?
00:30If we don't do it, we're going to die trying.
00:38We were new. What we were doing was completely new. Extremely exciting times.
00:54Cheryl, do you know what your daddy is?
00:56A rocket man.
00:58A rocket man?
01:00Every flight that I was ever a part of always had problems.
01:07All of us were very well aware there are going to be accidents in a space program.
01:13Time was passing. We had to meet these goals.
01:25It was pressure, pressure, pressure.
01:28It was just a disaster waiting to happen.
01:30And it was an escape.
01:31We had to maneuver at the centre of the floor.
01:31It was just a military dynamics.
01:32Trying to fix the secret was to
01:33And it was literally lanes and again hit the road.
01:33Let's
01:51fracquat Islands was a pretty man.
01:52We
01:58You
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