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Season 1

Lang: English Subtitle: Arabic

Drama
Action
1998
PG 15-D

Stars: David Andrews,Tom Hanks

Director: Tom Hanks

Mini-series recounting the full story of the Apollo space programme - from the 1961 presidential challenge that inspired it, through the 1967 Apollo 1 tragedy that nearly grounded it, to the 1969-72 lunar voyages that defined it.

Episodes

Can We Do This?

Episode 1

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

Apollo One

Episode 2

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 programme.

We Have Cleared The Tower

Episode 3

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.

1968

Episode 4
PG 15-D
00:55:00

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.

Spider

Episode 5
PG 15-D
00:55:00

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.

Mare Tranquilitatis

Episode 6
PG 15-D
01:00:00

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.

That's All There Is

Episode 7
PG 15-D
00:55:00

A jet crash that kills one of his colleagues moves rookie Alan Bean from "forgotten astronaut" to lunar module pilot on the second moon landing. He experiences fear, amazement, disappointment, hilarity, and, most of all, camaraderie aboard "history's ultimate anti-clima

We Interrupt This Program

Episode 8
PG 15-D
00:50:00

As the life-threatening consequences of the Apollo 13 accident escalate in real time, so do the tensions among the NASA press corps covering it. Among them, a respected, old-school TV journalist questions the confrontational methods of a younger, slicker colleague.

For Miles And Miles

Episode 9
PG 15-D
01:00:00

America's first man in space, Alan Shepard, is grounded with an inner ear disorder. A thankless new desk job starts to look permanent, until fate - and surgery - bring him a chance to rescue the space programme.

Galileo Was Right

Episode 10
PG 15-D
01:00:00

Geology guru Lee Silver helps Dave Scott and his Apollo 15 crew unravel the moon's mysterious origins by teaching them to become his lunar surrogates, and thus the first fully-trained "field observers" on another world.

The Original Wives' Club

Episode 11
PG 15-D
01:00:00

A group of young military wives struggle with their new "jobs" handling both the national spotlight and a demanding home front. Meanwhile, their astronaut husbands lose themselves in the pursuit of a national goal alternately competitive, glamourous, and deadly.

Le Voyage Dans LA Lune

Episode 12
PG 15-D
01:00:00

The bittersweet end of the Apollo programme - and the final manned journey to another planet - is juxtaposed with a light-hearted recreation of the first cinematic imagining of such an endeavour, the 1902 French silent classic "Voyage to the Moon".