Moon Machines (2008)

Directed by

Christopher Riley

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series goes through the engineering work behind the Apollo program that sent people to the moon. Each episode covers a different piece of hardware like the Saturn V rocket or the lunar module. The show highlights the design and building challenges the teams faced.

informativedetailedfocusedmethodicaleducationalearnestnostalgic

What happens

Moon Machines is a Science Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting the engineering challenges of the Apollo program to land men on the Moon. It covers everything from the iconic Saturn V to the Command Module, the Lunar Module, the Space Suits, the Guidance and Control Computer, and the Lunar Rover. It was created by the team that made In the Shadow of the Moon in association with NASA to commemorate the agency's fiftieth anniversary in 2008. It first aired in June 2008 in the U.S. and UK, and was released on DVD a year later in June 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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