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Moon Machines Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2008 - 2008
Episode 1
The Saturn V Rocket
Fri, Jan 23, 202645 mins
October 4th 1957, and the Russians take a huge leap forward in rocketry when they successfully launch Sputnik 1 - the world's first artificial satellite. Over the years the Soviets would with their space achievements, and it was America's turn to respond.
Episode 2
The Command Module
Fri, Jan 23, 202647 mins
We recount the story of the engineers who built the Apollo Command Module, a fully pressurised living space that would need to provide three men with food, water, air, power, communication, navigation and above all protection, to the moon and back.
Episode 3
The Navigation Computer
Fri, Jan 23, 202645 mins
We tell the story of how a group of computer scientists grappled with the challenge of navigation of a round trip to the Moon back in the days when computer code and software hadn't been invented and computing power was a fraction of what it is today.
Episode 4
The Lunar Module
Fri, Jan 23, 202645 mins
The story of the engineers challenged with building what became affectionately called the Lunar Bug. A constant battle to meet the seemingly impossible demands of weight restrictions, the Lunar Module was one of the greatest engineering feats in history.
Episode 5
The Space Suit
Fri, Jan 23, 202644 mins
As NASA began preparing for the Apollo missions, it realized it had no knowledge in one key area - space suits. This examines the teams behind the creation of the Apollo pressure suit.
Episode 6
The Lunar Rover
Fri, Jan 23, 202645 mins
we reveal the untold story of how that small team convinces NASA to build what ultimately became the Lunar Rover. As with all the engineering challenges during the Apollo program, the Lunar Rover represents a formidable task.
