Apollo Program ( ALL PARTS)

We explore the dramatic story of NASA s Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy s ambitious deadline for a lunar landing after the Soviet Union took the lead in the Space Race. We explore the dramatic story of NASA s Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy s ambitious deadline for a lunar landing by the end of the decade, in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin. We look at how Werner von Braun, a former rocket scientist of the Third Reich, played a leading role in NASA s planning. After groundbreaking success with the Mercury and Gemini missions, NASA was rocked by the Apollo 1 disaster, in which all three crew members (Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee) were killed in an accidental fire on the launch pad. NASA overhauled its designs and methods to achieve a successful manned launch with Apollo 7. Then came the launch of Apollo 8 aboard the mighty Saturn V rocket the largest and most powerful rocket ever seen. The m