‘We choose to go’, Apollo 11
Series: 13 Minutes to the Moon
Publisher: The BBC
Episode number: 1
Length (minutes): 45
Description:
President John F. Kennedy boldly vows that America will land the first astronaut on the Moon by the end of the 1960s. It’s the height of the Cold War. But with superpower rival the Soviet Union leading the space race, after launching the first human spaceflight, the odds seem stacked against them. The Apollo programme, the USA’s daring answer to the race to the Moon, is an epic journey of innovation and exploration. Can Nasa change the course of space history?