From the Earth to the Moon Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Season 1 Episode 12: Le Voyage dans la Lune

  The Apollo 17 mission is launched, but media coverage of the event is strangely muted. Also featuring the story of French film-maker Georges Melies' ground-breaking short La Voyage dans la Lune. Last in series

• Season 1 Episode 11: The Original Wives' Club

  The astronauts' wives band together to provide emotional support as the strain of worrying about their husbands' dangerous profession affects all aspects of their daily lives. Sally Field stars

• Season 1 Episode 10: Galileo Was Right

  Geologists voice their opinions and compete for astronautical ranking, while scientist Jack Schmitt works hard to obtain a place on what may be mankind's last mission to the moon

• Season 1 Episode 9: For Miles and Miles

  Veteran astronaut and first American in space Alan Shepard gets another chance with Apollo 14, having fallen ill when he first planned to return. Tom Hanks stars

• Season 1 Episode 8: We Interrupt This Program

  The Apollo 13 team run into difficulty, and Nasa's problems soon become the focus of the world's press as the crisis unfolds above the Earth

• Season 1 Episode 7: That's All There Is

  The Apollo 12 team prepare to land on the moon, as seen through the eyes of feisty astronaut Al Bean. Delicate manoeuvring is required as the capsule must touch down within walking distance of a probe already on the surface, and the fatigued crew make every effort to accomplish the exacting feat

• Season 1 Episode 6: Mare Tranquilitas

  Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin clash over which of them should be the first man to set foot on the moon, but a near disaster soon puts things in perspective

• Season 1 Episode 5: Spider

  A Nasa engineer recalls the seven years he spent designing a vehicle for landing on the moon's surface

• Season 1 Episode 4: 1968

  The year is 1968 - the Vietnam War takes a turn for the worse, Martin Luther King's assassination results in riots and June heralds the death of Bobby Kennedy. Despite this, the astronauts have other pressing matters at hand, namely preparing for the Apollo 8 launch - a mission which doesn't exactly run to plan

• Season 1 Episode 3: We Have Cleared the Tower

  The back-up crew prepare to blast off into space for the Apollo 7 mission, and hope that this time all will run as planned. Mark Harmon, Fredric Lane and John Mese star

• Season 1 Episode 2: Apollo 1

  Tom Hanks' dramatisation continues with the story of the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission, in which crew members Roger Chaffee, Virgil Grissom and Edward White became the first casualties of the US space programme when a flash fire engulfed the craft during a launch simulation - leading to accusations on the ground

• Season 1 Episode 1: Can We Do This?

  Tom Hanks' dramatised account of America's efforts to ensure the Apollo space programme's success. Beginning in 1961 with President Kennedy's instructions to beat the Russians to the moon, this 12-part story covers Nasa's attempts to make his dream a reality. Also starring Mark Harmon, Peter Horton and Chris Isaak