The Making of Apollo 11

How will BOEING, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic make space travel accessible to the rest of us? Brian attempts to answer these questions with the help of CNN Contributor and Space expert Miles O'Brien and CNN's Space Correspondent Rachel Crane. To learn more about how CNN protects li ...  Show more

The Apollo 11 mission was the first of its kind not only in the science field, but also for the media's ability to live broadcast history around the world. Brian speaks with CNN Space Correspondent Rachel Crane and historian Doug Brinkley about the unique media moment that was Ap ...  Show more

Cet épisode de Crousti-History est consacré à Apollo 11. - C’est qui ? Le 11e dieu de la beauté ? Dans les années 60, les États-Unis et l’URSS se chamaillent (vous connaissez l’histoire…) et la conquête spatiale devient une compétition. Kennedy crée donc la NASA, une agence spati ...  Show more

April 13th, 1970. 200,000 miles from Earth, three astronauts are approaching lunar orbit when they hear a noise. Deep in the spacecraft, a tiny wiring fault has caused an entire oxygen tank to explode. Now, it’s a race against time to save the lives of the crew of Apollo 13. It c ...  Show more

Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert went through the ordeal of their lives on the Apollo 13 Mission. But the people manning Houston’s Mission Control faced their own challenges as they figured out how to bring the astronauts home safe. Former NASA Flight Director Gerry Griffi ...  Show more

“We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…” In his speech at Rice University, Texas, in September 1962, President John F. Kennedy reaffirmed America's commitment to an ext ...  Show more